We’ve featured many Drag and Drop applets for Ubuntu’s Unity Launcher over the past few weeks, but this is the first one to support uploading to YouTube. The applet is by Tom LeJeune, whose Google+/Picasa […]
After installing a recent batch of updates in Ubuntu 11.10 I booted back up to find a surprise waiting for me: the new LightDM login screen enabled by default: Note that the above screenshot is […]
After spending several months in limbo e-mail application Thunderbird has been confirmed as the official e-mail application Ubuntu 11.10.
An Ubuntu-branded neoprene laptop sleeve is the latest item to be added to the Canonical store.
Several weeks back we translated a handy Unity Quicklist for Google+ by László Torma. That Quicklist is now even better, Google+heads. Credit goes to Chris Druif, who has enhanced the launcher item by adding in 'drag and drop' Photo uploading to Picasa Web Albums. Photos, depending on your privacy settings for the folder you choose to upload to, will also show up on your Google+ account.
User-friendly Conky setup Conky Colors has added a new 'stylish lightening stats' mode as part of its 7.0 release.
To mix things up, this episode of Download of the Week will not feature an application or a game, but rather a plugin: rhythmbox-plugin-coherence.
Linux users continue to pay more for the Humble Indie Bundle 3 than their Windows or OS X counterparts.
Seeing the Ubuntu logo sailing alongside hundreds of Android App icons in a TV spot for Samsung's Galaxy S II was a strange, but not unwarranted, sight to begin with. But Uncle Sammy appear to have had a change of heart; a 'new' version of the same advert is running in India with one small difference: no more Ubuntu logo.
The new look 'GTK3' version of the Ubuntu Software Centre is available for testing in Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha.
Novacut's recent success on Kickstarter has kickstarted an influx of Linux-based projects contacting us for coverage of their money-drives on the service. One that caught our eye was 'In The Dark' by Escapement Studios.
YouTube app 'MiniTube' has been updated witha fix for a recent change by YouTube that 'broke' playback on the Flash-free desktop app.