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 […]
To most of us Ubuntu starting the Wi-Fi connection automatically on log-in is a great boon – it lets us get online much quicker. For some, however, it is an annoyance. Below is an easy […]
Ubuntu lives in a special place between Windows and Mac OS X reserved only for Linux: more shine than Windows, less than OS X, resulting in a steaming pile of mediocrity. Since I’ve been involved in the Ubuntu […]
As part of Novell’s annual Hack week event Alan McGovern, of Moonlight and MonoTorrent fame, will be working on the much requested libgpod binding and integration work for Banshee — which has the potential to […]
Moovida, the popular cross-platform GStreamer-using media centre, are lunching a new desktop media player application — called Moovida Core - as part of its’ ‘Moovida 2.0‘ strategy. The player, which uses Banshee as its backend, […]
This could be you! I love space, and, more specifically I love space wallpapers as my wallpaper. During exam time (like now) I usually set some motivational wallpaper like “Get the hell off Facebook and […]
Turn your mouse movements into a zany desktop wallpaper with IOGraph. Developed by Moscow designer Anatoly Zenkov & his colleague Andrey Shipilov, the Java application  is set to run in the background while you go about your everyday ‘computing’. During this […]
A GNOME panel applet to search the internet and local files, that sits in your panel like the one in Unity would be awesome, but I can’t find one for the life of me. I’ve […]