During the development cycle of Firefox 4 Beta proper Mozilla are going to ensure they get users feedback every step of the way during what promises to be one of the most important development cycles […]
The decision to place tabs ‘on top’ for Firefox 4 has almost been the Mozilla equivalent of Left-hand side window buttons; for some it seems nothing short of a blatant rip off of Chrome/ium & Opera. Others feel […]
Trimage image compressor will losslessly optimise PNG and JPG files in a snap. Available with both GUI and command-line interfaces, the application optimizes images via optipng, advpng and jpegoptim, depending on the filetype. The interface was inspired by […]
A few days back we blogged about how applications will be accessed and launched from Unity. The good stuff, my friends, has finally landed in the ‘Unity’ testing PPA and does it look good? Boy […]
Kids who keep their beady eyes on Gnome-Look will have likely seen that popular third-party Main Menu application ‘GnoMenu’ is aiming to add ‘main menu’ support to Docky. Progress is ‘in development’ as of now […]
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…