The selected video and audio tracks for this cycles Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase initiative have been uploaded to Maverick. Goce Mitevski’s impressive ‘how fast does your pc boot’ video wowed us when it was first submitted to the […]
Small thing but very much worth being aware of – ‘Software Sources’ – a small tool for managing and controlling your enabled/disabled repositories – is no longer accessible from the System > Administration menu in Ubuntu 10.10. […]
Want to enable visualisations in Banshee? Here's how.
After the rather luke-warm reception that greeted the first ‘default wallpaper’ for Ubuntu 10.10 (through no fault of the Design team, more on that here) the latest iteration – and a much more pleasing one […]
The official Ubuntu 10.10 countdown banners – as chosen earlier this month – are now available to use, download, embed etc. Speaking on the Ubuntu-art mailing list Matthew Nuzum said: – “Add them to your […]
Christian Giordano has posted a video mock-up of a motion-aware Ubuntu desktop today. The demo was created following internal discussions on how Ubuntu could make use of user-proximity based data in informing input on the […]
Jeremy Allison nabbed some really neat interviews with various awesome people related to/involved with GNOME at this years 2010 GUADEC event and since so many of you enjoyed our interview with GNOME Co-Found Federico Mena […]
There are many file conversion tools out there – Handbrake, Arista & command line based options using FFmpeg to name but a few. WinFF provides a GUI for the above mentioned command line video converter […]
Owners of Apple’s new ‘Magic Trackpad’ device will be pleased to hear that Ubuntu 10.10 has gained support for the device, thanks to the work of Canonicals’ Chase Douglas. Douglas’ work on adding Magic Trackpad […]
Afro over on our sister site OMG! SuSE! just posted a neat little guide on getting web browsers Google Chrome & Opera to look all neat and tidy within the KDE desktop. Since the tips […]
Periscope is a subtitles search engine add-on that takes the tedium out of tracking down your favourite TV or Movie text. It integrates with both Totem and Nautilus (via Right Click menu entry) making it […]
If you use the popular GnoMenu application in AWN you'll find yourself stuck with a gold foot as your main launch icon - which is great if you like giant golden feet, less so if you were hoping for something more configurable. Here's how to use your own icon.