Gzap stopped by the OMG! Ubuntu! inbox to drop off a tip that unifies Skype and Empathy; by installing the pidgin-skype plugin from the Ubuntu Software Centre you can manage your Skype contacts from the buddy-list of Ubuntu's default IM client Emapthy.
Microsoft's Kinect motion controller lit up the eyes of many Linux developers when it hit the shelves late last year - so much so that geeks everywhere were soon out hacking the hardware to run on Linux.
Privacy settings are coming to Zeitgeist. (And in a pretty interface, too!)
A minor "bugfix" update to Minitube - the desktop, flashfree YouTube app - is available for download.
The "uniquely" designed desktop Google Reader application 'read Me' has updated, chucking in integration with 'Twitter' and 'Read it later'.
Wallpapers don't have to be static and boring. We've written about Android-style live wallpapers, weather wallpaper and real-time earth wallpapers before but here's something a little less flashy: a gorgeous wallpaper that changes with the time of day
"Getting things done" is, of late, a phrase alien to my work ethic. Rooting around for ways to help my concentrate I remember the 'Pomodoro Technique' - a time-management method that is, supposedly, meant to help. And thankfully there's an app for it.
After last years Debian Developer conference in NYC (DebConf10) this years conference, DebConf11 will be held in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina from 24th to 30th July. Of course besides developers, among the attendees you'll be able to see many well known faces from Open Source/Linux world, as well as representatives from some of the leading companies from this sector.
Banshee 2.0 is out and default in Natty which is all good and well but.. Banshee has not been resting. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, these new features are presented to you as screenshots.
The second beta release of Ubuntu 11.04 is now available for download.
After several years in development the Blender Foundation have today announced the first official stable release in the 2.5.x series of their 3D graphics software 'Blender'.
I take a pre-beta play with Ubuntu Tweak 0.6