Ever needed to check a hash against an .iso or other download but felt put off by using the terminal to do it? Here’s a simple GUI utility for doing so by the name of […]
Sad news for PPC Ubuntu users everywhere (admittedly a minority, but they do exist!): Opera has announced that Opera 10.6x will be the last version of the browser to support the PowerPC architecture on both Linux and […]
Okay – everyone knows that I – Joey-Elijah of the United Kingdom – am a massive Elementary theme fan but even I can admit to being surprised that the honourable Dan Rabbit has been working […]
We revealed yesterday that meta-contacts is coming to the Empathy instant messenger and now one of its developer – treitter – has spoken more on how it all works…. How to link A new ‘link […]
Ever needed to upload a large file to an online web service but found yourself constrained by maximum file size limits? The easy way to get around this is to 'split' your file into smaller chunks for uploading. These are then rejoined by the downloadee.
The Ubuntu light themes have been updated … andnow your Chrome theme looks a tad off colour. No worries;  you can quickly fix the issue thanks to these two plucky people! Ambiance Easily the more popular […]
Are you a lucky soul in possession of a touchscreen toting laptop, netbook or desktop or even one of those new fangled multi-touch mouse or magictrack-pad? Either way you can help hone Ubuntu’s new multi-touch support simply […]
New training courses based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS are now available from Canonical. The courses available remain the same as previously with Ubuntu Certified Professional (UCP), Deploying Ubuntu Server Edition (plus an accelerated version) and Deploying Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud all available […]
Firewall configuration in Ubuntu is about to get a lot easier thanks to a new project providing a graphical front end to Ubuntu’s default firewall UFW and thus making security settings simple for everyday users. […]
Users on Ubuntu 10.04 who have Unity installed abut have since found Nautilus and other apps are a bit slow to open may be grateful for this: Omer Akram has uploaded a new version of the […]
A Hebrew subset of the new Ubuntu font is in the making and scheduled to to be ready in time for Ubuntu 11.04 thanks to the initiative of Israeli web developer Tom Bigelajzen. His enthusiasm for […]
Remember that ever-so-adorable GTK Last.fm player we showed you several weeks back? It’s just updated, adding a new mini-mode, a volume slider and an improved installation script which cleans up after itself – which is […]