Earlier today we showed off some of the progress being made on the next version of the Ubuntu Software in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat – including a brand new super slick animated ‘Featured Apps’ bar. […]
A new ‘dropbox style’ synchronisation and collaboration tool aimed at open-source users has been announced today by Hylke Bons. Called SparkleShare aims to provide all of the same features of Dropbox but with better GNOME […]
Users of Google Voice will be thrilled to learn that thanks to the work of Ken Van Dine you can now receive instant notifications of new voicemail, SMS’s and other Google Voice messages directly to […]
Testing development branches of your favourite applications will soon be made a lot easier thanks to a new “Branch-to-package wizard” (my term, not theirs) being added to Launchpad. Developers will be able to easily turn […]
Disclaimer: The screenshots and video contained herein are of an ‘in-development’ application and as such do represent nor constitute the final, end product. The Ubuntu Software Centre continues to excite with it’s development as it […]
It will come as no revelation that the number one reason netbooks’ suck is due to their meek integrated innards – such as the prevalent use of Intel’s integrated graphics chips. Sure, they need to […]
Today’s daily 5 aims to free up some of your time with some nifty terminal commands. sudo !! Ever entered a command but left off the ‘sudo’ ? Instead of typing the entire thing again, […]
We all know that the GRUB loading menu that greets many of upon boot isn't the most stylish or modern looking interface - even adding a poorly pixelated picture background can't save it from looking lame. Getting a gorgeous, animated and informative boot-loader is no longer a dream thanks to 'Brand New Universal Bootloader' (more commonly referred to as 'BURG'.)
A new release of the popular Elementary theme has been made – adding improved support for Nautilus-Elementary, a revised style for the Midori web browser and some new look minimal scroll bars. The theme also […]
Today is a very special day indeed for, 32 years ago thence, the worlds best ‘design team generalist’ was born in the humble shire of Nelson in New Zealand on June 10th. Forget Jesus – […]
Those who installed Lucid Lynx got a surprise – from pre-releases through to the full release of 10.04, Ubuntu’s windows buttons have swapped sides! Interesting how this default setup of these buttons now mirror those […]
Power management in Ubuntu is a largely poor effort. As Ubuntu stretches it's leg in the field of mobile computing devices; users need a more coherent and accessible way to control power settings. Users currently need to use 3 (!) applets in-order to manage the oft-most power-related used features of screen brightness, CPU performance and battery life indication.