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 […]
Danny Piccirillo has posted an awesome Lucid post-install guide on his blog that covers a lot of cool stuff that you can do with Ubuntu 10.04 after installing it, including a great list of quality applications […]
This method is now out-dated. See omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/02/thunderbird-messaging-menu-integration-ready-for-wider-testing/ — Many Ubuntu users don’t use the default Ubuntu mail application Evolution and prefer to swap it out with popular alternative Mozilla Thunderbird. Sadly, for Ubuntu 10.04 users, this […]
Here’s something to look forward to in Meerkat and GNOME 2.31.1: an improved file conflict dialogue. Currently nautilus just informs that a file with the same name already exists and asks if you want to […]