Two apps. Two new alpha releases. Two great new features.
Tech blogger Chris Prillo's Dad has become a viral celebrity after his toe-curling 'first experience' with Windows 8 garnered hundreds-of-thousands of views almost over night. Capitalising upon this, and perhaps in the interest of fairness, Chris has sat his Dad Joe down in front of, and filmed his first take on, OS X and Ubuntu 11.10. How did he get on? Click in to find out...
A new version of wallpaper changing application Wallch is due for release at the weekend - but the developers need your help in advance. With new features set to debut, the Wallch team need some eager Ubuntu 12.04 users to take the app for a spin, and report any bugs they find.
Big changes are happening to Chrome OS – Google’s Linux-based ‘web only’ operating system. The most surprising of these is the introduction of a ‘desktop’ and window manager called Aura: – Now of course, you […]
Ubuntu's offer of 'Locally Integrated Menus' has intrigued many - but how much do you really know about them? To many they appear to offer a pseudo-compromise between the tidiness provided by Ubuntu's (oft-derided) App Menu and an atheistically pleasing but easily-accessible way of adding menus back to application windows. But what are Locally Integrated Menus? And how do they work? The Ubuntu Design Team's John Lea took some time out to dispel the myths and misconceptions surrounding the forthcoming feature...
The default Ubuntu icon theme isn't the most glamourous of icon sets but I like that; it doesn't distract me from working or get in the way. But that's not to say it couldn't do with a bit of oomph in a few places.
Music streaming service Spotify has launched in Germany. The service was previously only available in 9 countries, including France and the UK, but with Germany being the third largest music market in the world the launch is sure to be a popular one. But why not launch sooner?
A bunch of bug fixes have been added to the latest release of YouTube Music Player MusicTube. The innovative application lets use YouTube’s vast inventory of videos as your own personal on-demand music library. You […]
We love keeping an eye on Ubuntu in public – especially when n when it’s not an intentional nod. Oodle, an online listings site for ‘buying, selling, and lending among one’s community’, powers the ‘Facebook […]
A new experimental version of Spotify for Linux Preview is available to download. This minor update brings the client upto parity with the Windows and Mac clients, as well as fixing a number of bugs and crashes.
With the release date of Ubuntu 12.04 looming ever closer it’s becoming clear not everything wished for inclusion will make it into the final release. One such feature is a simple and easily accessible switch […]
Users of Unity 2D might not be able to tweak as much of their desktop as those running the resource-requiring 3D version, but options are available - and third party tweak too 2D Desktop Settings lets you adjust many parts of the Unity 2D desktop.