If you’re not already aware of Ubuntu 10.10’s new netbook interface, called ‘Unity’, then I would sincerely ask you to point to the rock under which you have been living. The sexy, stylish and visually […]
Tom Cowell‘s purpled-ified Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy badger wallpaper is a something for nostalgia hounds out there, taking the bokeh-style brown wallpaper that draped itself across desktops 5 years ago this October and adds some purple-magic […]
We all know the problem, the metadata in your music files isn’t perfect and it would be nice to benefit from a larger collection to compare with and get corrections from. Bringing the Utopian dream […]
Nvidia using Ubuntu 10.10 adopters suffering from performance regressions in which some applications are slow to 'redraw' and text rendering is laggy, may wish to try one of the two following solutions.
Longing for a visually impressive way of browsing your music library in Rhythmbox? Can you say 'Coverflow time'!
The Banshee Project has released 1.7.6 on schedule. This release fixes 26 bugs, most of which represent improvements to the new hardware support so users with hardware issues on 1.7.5 are requested to retest with […]
If you’re using the latest Firefox 4 beta you may have noticed a few new visual changes… There is now a loading progress indicator displayed in the URL/Address bar as a page loads. Traditionally Firefox […]
Ever wanted to use your desktop as a sketchpad? And by 'use your desktop' I do mean quite literally! A reader by the name of 'Marko' dropped off a tip about the following self-described 'free painting software' that allows you to use your fingers, mouse or graphics tablet to make free-hand annotations on your desktop - no need to stay within the rigid confines of an application window or canvas any longer! Treat your desktop like a chalkboard! This is Ardesia.
Everyone is hoping to see the elegant new Ubuntu font in use on their desktops come October and, according to the font's lead designer Bruno , everything is still on course for the font to ship with Ubuntu 10.10.
Adobe has previously made a testing version of their 64bit plugin available for users however this was discontinued, somewhat abruptly, earlier this year. Well, it's back!
They say first impressions count and Maverick has certainly taken that to heed with its redesigned slideshow to play during installation. Do note that many of the images/text in these slides are still place holders, […]
We’re hearing reports that there’s a bit of a bug in an update to Ubuntu 10.10 today that is leaving users on Intel in particular who are making use of Clutter-based apps and interfaces – […]