Whilst most drawing applications seek to provide users with as many possible ways to edit and draw accurately as possible, Alchemy doesn’t. The Java-based application seeks to give users ‘a way to explore and experiment with […]
The default Ubuntu light themes are getting a bit of a spruce in time for Ubuntu 10.10 – but how far a spruce will it go? Since we first posted this article it has been […]
A few days back we covered how to run Opera Mini – the super tiny mobile web browser from Opera – in Ubuntu. Today we’re looking at installing and using Opera Mobile – the larger, […]
Furious iConverter is, as the name might suggest, a video conversion tool for use with iPod, iPod Touch & iPhone. The simple GTK interface provides users with a convenient front-end for converting any FFMpeg-supported video format into iPod/iPhone friendly MP4. […]
Whilst much ado about nothing has been made concerning Ubuntu 10.10’s shiny new Sound Menu one question has been asked time and time again – will Banshee support it? The answer is yes. Bertand Lorentz […]
The first drop of the newly redesigned Ubiquity installer for Ubuntu 10.10 has landed in Maverick. We have previously blogged about the changes proposed for the Maverick installer but this is the first time that the new […]
‘A new start’ GTK theme looks, from the word go, pretty much unlike anything else you’ve tried before. An aptly titled theme that has that oh-so aloof quality of actually being able to totally transform […]
As most of you probably know, I’m pretty much the equivalent of a newborn in the world of free software. This open source gig has been going for almost 30 years, but I only got […]
Whilst many users seem to have more HDD space than they can shake a stick at (what does that phrase mean?) others are often left with less than a few GB's free to live in. If you're the latter - and hell, even if you're the former - here are 5 ways to free up some disk space in Ubuntu.
Popular launcher applications Do and Kupfer may have some competition – say hello to the incredibly lightweight Alawalk. Alawalk, the brainchild of a developer named ‘hunterm‘, is a new launcher application made completely in plain bash. […]
The team behind open-source Flash alternative LightSpark pushed out a new bug-fix release a few days ago. Seeing as we’re a few releases in, I felt now was a prime time to see just how […]
Stat junkies & Ubuntu addicts who need to know exactly how many days remain until everyones favourite Meerkat scuttles into release-land may wish to consider the following small notification script, created by ironic-gnome. The countdown […]