We at the Indicator-Weather project need you to do some forecasting for us. (World groans – ed) Whilst we’ve got a pretty kicking preview that works but what we really need is to find out […]
Wine 1.2 stable has finally been released today after more than two years of development. The release sees support for 64bit applications, new Tango-based icons (props to Joel Holdsworth who helped lead the work on […]
I know that many readers have had concerns over the direction that Ubuntu 10.10’s new sound menu has been taking and it would be fair to say that a significant section of those were centred […]
Short sharp update: As the Software Centre continues to improve during the Maverick development cycle you can count on us to make a song and dance about every trivial update. Thing is, I don’t consider […]
Canonical’s Neil Jagdish Patel has just announced a new release of Unity – Ubuntu’s forthcoming ‘Ubuntu Light’ interface as well as the Ubuntu Netbook interface replacement. This update brings global search in the ‘Places’ pane […]
Spotify Unlimited subscribers are now able to use the Spotify for Linux preview. Prior to now the preview was only available to Premium subscribers – Spotify’s highest tier package – but in an update today […]
The latest version of Novell-sponsored distribution OpenSuse has been released today. OpenSuse 11.3 brings a boatload of brilliant new features to users desktop including secure online file backup via SpiderOak, tracker file indexing (replacing beagle), btrfs support & […]
If you’re chomping at the bit to try out some of Googles Web App features in Chrome/ium then read on! Google announced that a new Chrome Web Store was being built earlier this year at […]
Welcome to the world of Distro agnostic application packaging thanks to the ‘1 app = 1 file’ AppImage initiative from the Elementary-Project. Yesterday we waxed lyrical about the ‘portability’ factor of AppImages – the one-click […]
Emesene2, the successor to the popular Windows Live Network-based Instant Messaging application ‘Emesene’, recently launched a testing PPA for foolhardy users to install and test the current pre-alpha builds. Emesene2 has been rewritten completely from […]
The process of installing BURG – the easy way to get a graphical, good-looking bootloader – has been made easier thanks to a new ‘BURG Manager’ application which provides users with a graphical front-end for configuring and managing various […]
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