Quick heads up to something I forgot to mention before – the very slick Faenza icon set now has a PPA, making it easy to stay up-to-date with the latest additions to the square-y icon […]
Ubuntu 10.10 will see the much-derided F-Spot pushed out of the frame in favour of the lighter, leaner Yorba-developed photo manager/editor app going by the name of ‘Shotwell‘. Whilst we’ve featured Shotwell many times on […]
This is a cross-post from our sister site OMG! Suse! written by rTyler. Hold onto your hats! The KDE team just announced the release of KDE 4.5.0, the most recent release of the already […]
P-Launcher is a simple utility providing simple package-overview, saving and ‘mini’ management. Whilst not intended as a replacement for Synaptic it is portable, requires no dependencies & allows a user to: – Save packages – creates a list of […]
Things have been a bit quiet in manual-land for the last couple of months. We managed to get a couple of translated copies released, but apart from that, the IRC channel and mailing list has resembled […]
A couple of days ago I posted an article which, believe it or not, had a fundamental message buried somewhere amongst the stereotyping, name-calling trollop. It was a mistake on my behalf to use such […]
Ever wanted to set video as your desktop wallpaper a la the quickly-ditched Windows DreamScene? With 'Video Wallpaper' it's easy.
A small update to Ubuntu 10.10 a few days back brought something rather special to the table…. Nope, not a new icon set, PiTiVi with effects or even the stacks feature in Docky but a […]
Canonical design team member Otto Greenslade has confirmed that the new Ubuntu Light theme we showed you yesterday is indeed the real deal. Speaking on the Canonical design blog he details some of the more […]
Kill some free time and help out science at the same time with Foldit – an experimental puzzle game that, simply by playing, helps computers to deal with bioinformatics and protein folding. Premise The basic […]
Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon, in an interview with Austrian newsite derStandard.at, has reiterated that a fork of GNOME is not on the cards. Asked whether Ubuntu’s continuing additions, removals and tweaks to the stock GNOME environment could […]
The first release candidate of open-source flash alternative LightSpark 0.4.3 has been released. Faster rendering, reduced memory consumption and smoother video playback are some of the notable changes present in this release. Installation Ubuntu users will […]