Is your desktop in need of a makeover? The following desktop by DeviantArtist ~votritis, called 'Stairway to heaven', might be just what you're after...
Crashy apps hanging around chomping on your resources? Kill it quickly with the newly formed 'Indicator-Forceclose'.
The Clockwork Man is an artistic, hidden object game set in the Victorian Era with a strong Steampunk vibe. And it's our download of the week.
Nifty system resouce monitor 'Indicator Mulitload' has received a minor update, adding detailed live-updated system stats into the applet menu.
A new GNOME 3 'Adwaita' theme for Firefox 4 has been made available for download.
It's a new week, but I'm behind. Here are a couple of things I never got around to mentioning last week...
What's been happening in the Zeitgeist project of late? Let's take a quick look...
In spite of best efforts, a weird bug in compiz causing windows to 'become invisible' is still haunting the users. Here is how you can help fix it.
'Ext2explore' allows you to browse a Linux partition - be it Ext2, ext3 or ext4 - from within Windows, giving you the options to 'save' any files needed to a location of your choosing within Windows.
A bug in panel-bound RSS applet 'Feed Indicator' which saw feed items open in a users browser just by hovering over them has been fixed in its most recent update released this weekend.
One of the many criticisms that the Ubuntu Software Centre has come under since its launch is how difficult it's been to get paid, commercial applications submitted for inclusion in the Paid Apps section. Ever since we released Volley Brawl a couple of months ago, I've had numerous emails from publishers and developers asking me "how on earth did you do that?! We've been trying to contact Canonical for months now to get [game] into the Software Center to no avail." Thankfully it's a problem Canonical are all to aware of, so they've been working on a Developer Portal similar to that of the Android Market or iOS App Store. Developers or publishers can submit their app, add a title, description, price, category and more.
LibreOffice 3.4, the 'second major release' of the free office suite from The Document Foundation, has been released this afternoon.