Joe Lawrence sent us over this incredibly simple yet worthwhile tip for avid Wine users. Sourced specifically because ‘cool menus’ such as Cardapio don’t let you run easily launch Wine applications. He’s already written it […]
Some of you loathed them, some of you loved them but now they’re gone. Yes, the Ubuntu 10.10 Sound Menu has finally introduced new player control icons that ditch the gaudy n’ grey look of yesterday […]
Y’know, detractors aside, it has been a wee while since I last (t)wittered on about a Twitter app. So what’s new with Turpial, one of my favourite clients that is both light and feature-filled? I […]
I don’t need to pad this post out: In Ubuntu 10.10 you can ‘organize desktop by name’. This replaces the previous wording of ‘clean up by name‘ which, lets be fair, was a piece of potentially confusing terminology. […]
It is often the little things that have the greatest impact and, as such, consider me thrilled to finally see the ‘Where is it?’ feature implemented into the Ubuntu Software Centre/Center for Ubuntu 10.10. What is it? […]
The latest version of TinyGrab inspired screenshot tool ‘Lookit’ has hit beta status and is on the look out for the brave and the bold amongst you to do some testing… New features There are plenty of […]
As part of Nautilus’s ongoing revamp – which will see Zeitgesit integration, a beautiful new breadcrumb path-bar & the long-overdue ‘undo’ feature amongst other things – a newly redesigned Places sidebar has been committed as ‘fixed’ in the GNOME […]
Customizers rejoice: the latest experimental build of Dropbox now respects your installed icon set. This means users no longer need to manually replace them with theme-akin replacements. “We have changed the names of our tray icons […]
As someone sans a working DVD drive let alone something to burn or copy I have been largely unaware of a bug plaguing Brasero users during the last few releases: it fails to copy audio and data CD’s and, […]
With the UI and feature freeze just about to fall into place for Ubuntu 10.10 a few subtle changes to the default ‘Humanity’ icon set have landed – and just in time! Unlike previous releases and/or updates […]
There’s nothing worse than an application sitting in the notification area of your system panel and sticking out like a sore thumb on the cohesive hand of your desktop. Or something more poetic. Below sit […]
Another day and another indicator applet to share word of. Today we’re looking rather more informative than time-saving – a system process monitor. ‘System load indicator’ monitors yours running processes CPU, RAM and disc I/O […]