Today saw the final artwork drop for the Karmic Koala – and what an update it’s been! What’s new? Take a look below! Updated Human-theme The default theme for Ubuntu has changed! Finally! Gone are […]
Google this week released Picasa 3.5 for Windows and Mac. Sadly no Linux version was offered, a fact Google blamed on the lowly adoption figures they have for Picasa on Linux. I think that’s a […]
Dell are to ship netbooks powered by Ubuntu Moblin Remix. This marks a change from current Dell netbooks which are available with Ubuntu Netbook Remix or, previously, Ubuntu 8.04 plus Dell’s own Netbook Interface (a […]
Canonical – the financial backers of Ubuntu – have developed a diagnostics software kit, installable on a USB thumb drive, to help users identify what bits of their hardware will work with Ubuntu and what […]
Anyone using the Karmic Alpha’s who has tried to install Dropbox will have noticed that the Jaunty .deb’s fail to work. Thankfully all you need to do is install it from source – which isn’t […]
Continuing our look at Gnome 3’s Gnome-Shell, we land upon the oft unnoticed desktop sidebar! The sidebar can be enable/disabled from the user menu in the top right-hand corner and unless clicked or hovered over, […]
An update to Karmic Alpha 6 has finally replaced ‘Add/Remove’ with the ‘Ubuntu Software Store’. As you can see in the screenshot above, Ubuntu Software Store finally get’s it’s official icon. Bigger view: – The […]
Update An updated icon will be shipping in the next update to the human theme! Hurrah! ~thanks Yann Dìnenda for the tip-off! Karmic Koala’s icon for displaying a wired connection is, in all fairness, quite […]
Below are two quick methods of installation Gnome-Shell in Ubuntu. Please be aware that Gnome-Shell is still very much in development and should be treated as such. Karmic Koala If you want to try out […]
A new version of Linux Desktop mail application ‘Evolution’ has been released. Notable features and improvements bring: – • Google calendar will be available through Caldav interface by default • Configurable date formats • Selecting […]
Kuldgets is a small application that lets you run OS X Dashboard Widgets in Linux. Install Kludgets Grab the source: http://kludgets.googlecode.com/files/kludgets-0.9.1.linux.tar.gz Save it to your desktop and extract. (Right Click > Extract) Enter the extracted […]
Gnome 3, which will be available to install in Ubuntu 10.04, will mark the first radical change to the Gnome Desktop since it’s inception, thanks to it’s “new” interface ‘Gnome-Shell’. Doing Things Better On first […]
Rhythmbox has been updated to 0.12.5, bringing with it new bug fixes and a new music-cover fetching feature. Codenamed “Stop Beathin’”, this new version brings 3 notable improvements: – Cover Art Search now uses discogs.com […]
The name of Ubuntu 10.04, the release due in April 2010, has been revealed as ‘Lucid Lynx’! Lynx’s Meat Lucid Lynx will be a LTS release (supported for 5 years) and will ship with Gnome […]
Below is a short tutorial on how to make Firefox space friendly. I have a netbook which my sister borrows from time to time and although my main browser is Opera 10 on it, my […]
One unique feature of Empathy is the ability to use Adium chat themes, which is great for those looking to have a different chat layout during IM’s. Since Empathy is the new default Messenger in […]
Alpha 6 of Ubuntu 9.10 has been released, and brings with it a few nice surprises. Alpha 6 (once you’ve run update manager) finally has the gorgeous new XSplash Screen. This is the xsplash design […]
Alpha 6 of Karmic Koala was due for release today, but has been postponed for a little longer to iron out some last minute bugs which have affected many alpha testers. (“affected” being an understatement!) […]