Did you know that OMG! Ubuntu! has its own IRC channel? Oh yeah; we like to geek out, too! If you’ve never visited the “channel” (I prefer “chat room”) and you want to, then this […]
A few days ago I was asked by a reader to recommend a ‘system info’ tool. I (foolishly) assumed everyone already knew about Hardinfo. It’s my-go tool when I want to glean more info about […]
Fellow Europeans – tonight is the grand finale of the 55th Eurovision song contest – and you’d be a fool to miss what promises to be one of the closet fought contests in the last 10 years. A few […]
Native Twitter applications are fast becoming the iPhone fart app of Linux: there is an endless stream of them, and they all pretty much do the same things. Mitter enters the fray as Yet-Another-Twitter-Application but does it have anything unqiue to offer over more established apps like Pino, Qwit and Gwibber?
You will have likely already heard that Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition is introducing “global menu” ”esque application menus into the panel (think OS X if you’re confused). If you want to help to test the […]
The brave (and foolhardy) amongst you may wish to help test the Indicator Network applet being proposed for inclusion Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition. Test it out in Lucid You can test Indicator Network in Lucid […]
The word ‘dual boot’ may be a dirty word to some but it remains a practical and often necessary scenario that many people find themselves in. Whether for gaming, work or access to Adobe Creative […]
Boxee was demoed at UDS with the hopes of getting it into the main Ubuntu repositories, and I say rock on! It’s an amazingly polished home media center running Linux that allows you to stream media […]
Dying to bork your system and experience crashes for no reason? You’ll be pleased to hear that the daily builds of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick have swung into, er, being spun and are now available for […]
Opera came top in our ‘What is the fastest browser on Linux?’ test-o-rama conducted a few days back, and since then a number of you have decided to take it for a web-browsing whirl. But […]
Users wishing to get handy desktop-bound updates of e-mails, tweets and un-read items in Google Reader should check out CloudSN, a multi-service notification applet that integrates with the Ubuntu Messaging Menu. Here is CloudSN (which […]
Do you use Do alternative Kupfer? Fellow writer Tyler James waxed lyrical about it a few weeks back (see here for his review and how to install it.) If you do use it then the […]