Add some Ubuntu Ambiance/Radiance style icons to Caffeine – the coffee-powered way to stop your screensaver or sleep-timer kicking in. Download the icons: [link since broken] Replace the files in /usr/share/caffeine/images/ Installing Caffeine If you don’t already […]
To celebrate CoverGloobus finally getting a Lucid-friendly PPA here are 8 hand-picked CoverGloobus themes from the art-mine that is DeviantArt. (Notice: 32bit users may have noticed by now that CoverGloobus for Lucid in the PPA […]
“The podcast for people who don’t like podcasts, brought to you by people who know nothing about podcasts.” Hello, hello, good evening. Yes, you read the title correctly! After two weeks delay since we announced […]
We’ve featured pr09studio’s work before but this latest wallpaper set — Hurrah Ubuntu — is, in my eyes, arguably his greatest so far (and the rest are freaking awesome so that says a lot!). It […]
Lucid users missing their fix of desktop album are and slick file previews need miss no-more – CoverGloobus & Gloobus-Preview are now available for Lucid via the relevant PPA’s. Cover Gloobus We’ve mentioned/loved/raved/enteradjectivehere about Gover-Gloobus […]
Minitube — the flashless desktop YouTube player — has hit version 1.0. Fixes n’ features include: – Ability to play Full HD (1080p) videos Ability to copy the YouTube link and the video stream URL […]
Canonical are currently the only Linux company to license H.264/AVC, the patented non-free technology used to compress video and favoured by companies such as Apple & Microsoft for HTML5 Video. Neither RedHat, makers of Fedora, […]
Remember Mark Shuttleworth hinting that the window control movement had freed up space on the right and that there were some interesting things that could be done there? Well: Mark Shuttleworth has just posted a […]
The final final version of Lubuntu 10.04 has been released. Touted as ‘stable beta’ by the Lubuntu developers and coming some 105 days after the first Alpha Lubuntu marks the first release-proper of an LXDE […]
Following on from the launch of the OpenShot survey (which if you haven’t filled in yet you should do so by clicking here) one criticism of OpenShot that I have heard time and time again […]
Further to our previous post on integrating Thunderbird with the Messaging Menu it struck me that many users – such as myself – don’t use a desktop e-mail client at all. Below are two very […]
The developers behind Linux video editor OpenShot have launched a new survey asking users what features they want to see in the next release. The result of the survey will directly influence what features will […]