The popular elementary-style Firefox theme ‘Firefox Elementary’ has received an update adding full support for Firefox Personas and theme enhancements amongst various others.
The last time I tried Google Earth on Ubuntu was late last year and I remember I couldn't get it working with Compiz enabled - OpenGL was slow and flickered so much it was unusable when effects were enabled. When they were disabled, it wasn't much better. I installed Google Earth on Maverick and I was blown away by how awesome it was. Click through for videos and install instructions.
As some of you may know, Seif has been working closely with the Software Center developers to integrate Zeitgeist into the Software Center. We blogged about the Software Center using Zeitgeist to display app usage a couple of weeks ago, and naturally the next step would be for that information to be translated into recommendations, which is very, very cool.
The open source reference management software Zotero is to see a standalone desktop application for Linux, Mac and Windows and support for more browsers.
Parodying the 1996 cult film Trainspotting, Caroline Pimenta's Linspotting advert is a well made and incredibly funny short that will have you laughing throughout.
Roman Yepishev, routinely annoyed by the lack of clear, accessible visual UbuntuOne sync notification, has started work on an indicator-applet for displaying the sync-status of your UbuntuOne account.
Canonical have no plans to complain about anti-competitive behaviour by Microsoft to the European Union, the vice president of business development at Canonical has told PC Pro.
We first reported on Oliver Dufoli's Last.fm audio fingerprinting extension for Banshee back in mid-September. Now less than a month later I am happy to report that the extension has been merged into the Banshee Community Extensions and is functional.
The new Ubuntu 10.10 CD cases we revealed with you a few days back are certainly worthy of praise but lets not forget ‘the spin that’s never in’ Lubuntu 10.10 and it’s own CD wallet […]
Why not use your screensaver for something useful liking displaying the time?
When the fear of hardware incompatibilities puts you off buying a new computer be sure to run your intended purchase through Canonical’s ‘Ubuntu Certification’ website.
Display the time in style on your desktop without needing to install entire widget frameworks or mess with complicated conky codes using Cairo-Clock – a themeable, resizable and moveable analogue clock application.