Users of desktop feed-reading application Liferea can be alerted to new RSS updates via the Ubuntu Messaging Menu thanks to a patch by the very cool Maia Kozheva. Download The patch is due to go […]
The latest testing version of popular cloud storage service Dropbox has introduced indicator applet support and, what will surely be music to icon-set makers ears’ everywhere — the ability to finally customize the dropbox tray […]
In case you’ve not heard, (probably due to rather extensive confusion about what and which is what) Compiz, Beryl and Compiz-Fusion have gone through a number of changes and splits and merges and has finally […]
Do you have a Dell Inspiron 1300 with a blasted Broadcom wireless card and want a fix? Saa on the Ubuntu Forums has provided just that! Download the following folder [broken link], unzip and double […]
We get sent so many great ideas, awesome tutorials and see applications updates fire out updates quicker than a plasma canon hooked up to the national grid that even we can’t manage to keep up […]
How much would you pay for five really great Linux-compatible games? It really is up to you with ‘The Humble Indie Bundle’. It’s an exciting experiment in online retail & distribution — these games would […]
Both in response to my recent review of Midori and some argument… ehm, discussion, in yesterdays Ubuntuesday OMG! Podcast, I have taken on the task of running Midori and Google Chrome through a few tests […]
Every Ubuntu release is followed by Ubuntu Open Week during which Mark Shuttleworth holds a Q&A session where users can ask him pretty much anything. A condensed selection of highlights follow. Maverick will not be […]
Minitube developer Flavio Tordini is currently developing another exciting and visually attractive project: a new music player titled ‘Minitunes‘. Now before the smart alecs at the back start groaning about ‘Yet Another Linux Music Player’ […]
Conky is a is a light-weight system monitor that can be customized extensively (Windows converts think ‘rainmeter’.) and the following Conky theme by Veoduendes certainly proves that. Called ‘Conky Ubuntu Lucid Theme’ (!) it’s designed, […]
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 […]