The new Ubuntu font has been available to download for quite a while — providing you had enough wiles to know where and how to find it. Eagle eyed readers will likely have spotted the […]
With Gnome 3.0 on course to be released later this year developers have begun making the tough decisions on what will be included as part of the desktop – and, perhaps more controversially, what won’t […]
Today’s Daily 5 offers up 5 alternative fonts for use in Ubuntu as the System font (the one that you seen on menu’s, buttons, etc). The default font in Ubuntu — ‘Sans’ (actually Déjà Vu […]
The Ubuntu UK community and Canonical are hosting a ‘different kind of IT event’ next month to promote the use of Ubuntu in UK businesses. The event, which takes place on Tuesday July 13th in […]
Apple pushed out Safari 5 earlier today. With it came a new feature called ‘Reader’ that, in the words of Apple themselves,: – “…removes annoying ads and other visual distractions from online articles. So you […]
Microsoft have finally launched their free online Office Suite (termed ‘office web app’) to UK users as part of SkyDrive – Microsoft’s cloud storage platform. We’ve all been sent at least one document file created in […]
Apple have just launched version 5 of their flagship web browser Safari for Windows and Mac. Linux users who, for some reason or another, feel left out and want to see what the fuss is about will […]
Here’s a great tip for netbook users and those with limited disc space: automatically delete downloaded update packages after they’ve been installed. Default hoarding By default Synaptic keeps every downloaded update packages in a cache. This is especially useful […]
I have been asked several times why I do not refer to Linux as “GNU/Linux,” or “the GNU/Linux operating system,” or some variation thereof. Most of you are well aware of the controversy around using […]
We’ve probably all seen, at some point, varying different productivity wallpapers. OMG! Ubuntu! reader Osvaldo decided that he wanted the default 10.04 wallpaper with some nice looking organizational helps, so he made up this great […]
Downloading and converting videos from popular video sharing services like YouTube, Dailymotion, CollegeHumour and Veoh has been made super easy thanks to desktop application DamnVid. In their own words DamnVid is described as “…a video downloader and converter that […]
You’re likely all aware that Ubuntu 10.10 is getting a funky feature-packed new sound applet for Maverick. That shindig promises to be crazy awesome and a great usability improvement. Until that pops up do allow […]