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Five Dalek Desktop Wallpapers

We celebrate the most bad-ass evil being in the Whoniverse - The Daleks!

10 December 2010
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Hacking on Kinect gets a whole lot easier

PrimeSense, the company behind Kinect has released open-source drivers for the peripheral, and established an Natural Interaction devices, applications and middleware organisation named OpenNI.

10 December 2010
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Help Novacut buy Akshat a new laptop

Many of you know Akshat Jain, who goes by ssj6akshat on IRC and frequents the #omg!ubuntu! and #novacut channels. He lives in rural India, is learning programming, and just turned 14 today. Happy birthday, Akshat!

10 December 2010
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DJ software mixxx updates, adds Beta build

Open-source Live DJ software Mixxx, developed by a community of DJ’s, saw the first beta release in its 1.9.0 cycle released alongside an update to version 1.8.x.

10 December 2010
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Monster Mega Mono News Update

The Mono 2.8 preview release created some stir in our comment section when it was announced with performance improvements and a new more efficient memory system. It was since released , and had a maintance […]

10 December 2010
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How to easily set the default os in grub

If you're a dual-boot user chances are you've at some stage or another wanted to change the default OS that GRUB chooses to boot into.

10 December 2010
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Minitube 1.3 restores youtube playback but loses seek support on Linux

Desktop flash-free YouTube player Minitube was one of many YouTube related applications that stopped working yesterday.

10 December 2010
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Orta GTK+ theme now has a PPA

Fans of the gorgeous Orta GTK+ theme take note: it now has a PPA, which will make staying up-to-date with all of the latest fixes and improvements a breeze.

10 December 2010
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Nautilus aping Finder a little too well…

Like many of us DeviantArt user DG09 likes to cap, post and upload screenshots of his Ubuntu desktop every month.

10 December 2010
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MeMenu now displays full user name in Natty

There are some arguments I get and some I don't.

9 December 2010
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Take a bite out of Unity’s bitesize bugs

Ever wanted to fix some bugs in Unity? Bitesize bugs are small-ish ones that will help you to get started.

9 December 2010
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Do launcher says “I ain’t dead”, sees first new release in a year

"It lives!" cries the release announcement and by jove I suspect many will be surprised to hear that the original launcher app 'Do' (formally known as GNOME Do) has been updated this week.

9 December 2010