Kyle Baker, the talented hands behind the Ambiance Opera theme we featured last month, has come up trumps again, releasing a pair of new themes for the new Opera 10.6 alpha release. Fans of Ubuntu’s […]
Do you love the Elementary icon set but wish it was green? Would you use Meliae if it was less pastel? Say hello to the answer: icoGen. icoGEN can generate whole new iconsets based on SVG […]
When a colleague scoffed at dooratthe‘s claim that an Ubuntu based LAMP server could be deployed in 5 minutes, well, something had to be done to prove it. Below is a screencast of a complete […]
As a writer, there are times when trying concentrate on what I’m writing is an impossible task. The more the bounds between the modern web and desktop blur, the more crowing distractions surround me, be […]
Introducing: The best Ubuntu yet? Since its release a month ago I have been testing Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, and I have been pleasantly surprised by the improvements in this version of my favorite distribution […]
CreBs – the curiously named* but totally awesome slideshow wallpaper generator for Ubuntu – has gotten itself a PPA, making installation of this must-have app a breeze. Crebs has also undergone a few fixes and […]
Several weeks back we mentioned the curious fact that uTorrent users were voting in their thousands asking developers to make a native Linux version. So strong was the call for a native version that it […]
Nautilus-Elementary – the simplified and gorgeous file-browser that is fast turning heads everywhere – will soon be adding a new feature that users the world over have been asking GNOME developers to include by default […]
Whenever we write about the popular, if much ignored, Opera web browser one question will inevitably crop up in the comments: ‘How do you disable the Opera tray icon?’ It’s actually really simple to do. […]
Looking for a fresh light theme to brighten up your desktop? Say hello to Pr09studio’s latest work: Smart GTK. Smart GTK theme was designed with the new Ubuntu colour scheme in mind. As such, you […]
With the biannual list of the top 500 supercomputers the world over released, the following screenshot of a graph showing the operating systems used in those 500 peta-flop crunching machines, and produced by the University […]
KOffice 2.2 – the latest and greatest version of the KDE Office suite – was released a few days ago with many improvements in stability & and file compatibility. Whilst many users will find OpenOffice the all-round-more-capable office suite, KDE […]