Personal Information Manager & Mail client Spicebird has finally emerged from beta with the release of version 0.8 and, form hereon in, the development team will “continue to update Spicebird every couple of months” Spicebird […]
Add some ambiance (no, not that one) to your BURG boot-loader with SWOrginal’s Dark Shine Burg theme – a vibrant hyaline-like theme reminiscent of speeding city lights at night. Download file and easy-install script in the link […]
Glippy is a self-confessed ‘simple clipboard manager for Ubuntu’ that provides clipboard support for history, images, text and more. Clip-board managers are useful tools for users who copy-and-paste frequently or wish to copy something but […]
The following Docky Terminal helper by Eugeny Pankov provides easy access your terminal profiles. It’s a 3rd party helper so you can’t install it from the Docky PPA or branch but you can nab the […]
Ubuntu’s parent company Canonical have become the first member to sign up to the ‘Open Invention Network’s new associate membership program. The Open Invention Network exists to acquire patents and license them royalty free to […]
With the second Alpha of Ubuntu 10.10 due shortly (July 1st, fact fans) so here’s a quick look back at some of the notable changes that the first Alpha has served up. Alpha 1 is […]
With a move towards every sleeker, ever more visually animated desktop themes and GUI’s it’s easy to forget how far the themes we use now have come along in such a short space of time. With that in mind here are some retro desktop themes in case all the fancy-pants themes of today have left you longing for the BeOS styling's of yesteryear…
Christian Giordano of the Canonical Design team posted a very nice video introduction to the new Unity Launcher yesterday showing off several new effects and features hitherto unbeknownst. Some of the new features of the ‘not-a-dock’ […]
We’ve covered tweaks, add-ons, analysis, proposals and more when it comes to Nautilus. Garret LeSage’s design idea’s for Nautilus cover’s much of the same ground as some of the other analysis that we’ve looked at before, […]
A new version of Ubuntu Netbook Edition (NBE) optimised for ARM-based devices is due for release in July. It’s called Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.7 and is based on the latest Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release. A video […]
Skype’s launch of a new Software Development Kit that offers both software and hardware developers the ability to integrate Skype functionality into their own applications and devices promises to bring a big boon to Linux […]
The new Date Time indicator that is all-set to replace the Gnome Clock applet in Ubuntu 10.10 will certainly make your life easier: A slick interface combines easy access to set timers and events direct from the […]