Using Ubuntu 10.04 and want your window control buttons back on the right? Well here’s how! Firstly let me apologise for not posting this tip sooner – I keep getting e-mails asking about it too […]
I saw Ivanka Majic, Ubuntu’s design team leader, retweet the following plight by fellow design team member Michael Forrest earlier and decided to also post it here. Judging by the sheer amount of OS X […]
The default Ubuntu Light themes have been updated with an improved scrollbar. (Dig in, guys, as these themes will be updated a lot over the next few months). Our criticism of the “current” scrollbar was […]
A few weeks ago we teamed up with promising new music player Guaydeque to help find them an awesome new icon that better represented their application. After an initial call for designs, twelve made the […]
Emesene Weather plug-in, perhaps not surprisingly, is a weather forecast plug-in for IM client Emesene. The plug-in inserts a basic weather forecast pane at the very bottom of the contact list window. The forecast displayed […]
Bored with how GRUB looks? Well if you don’t have the nerves to try total boot pimper BURG, the following simple script will help beautify your boot. The following simple script dolls up your GRUB […]
Shutter will be gaining a new ‘redo last capture’ tool in its next major release. The feature, already available in the ‘experimental’ branch allows a user to takes exactly the same screenshot again and again […]
Lucidity was a proposed theme for Ubuntu 10.04 but despite being only a mock-up it proved so popular with users that a Metacity based on it soon sprang forth. Now a GTK+ theme to match […]
Janet Jackson once sang “The best things in life are free” – which makes me wonder whether she was a closet Linux user! Docky is an example of something amazing yet free. Docky has gotten […]
OpenShot – OMG! Ubuntu!’s favourite video editor for Linux – released a new version today. Version 1.1 brings with it a buffet of new features, speed improvements and general all round greatness that we’ve come […]
GNOME Do developer Alex Launi announced this morning that, finally, Do and Docky are now separate applications. When we broke the news that Docky and GNOME Do were to split, back in October of last […]
Earlier today we wrote about Twitter application Pino getting updated and today sees it joined by a new beta release of premier KDE twitter application ‘Choqok’. The main new features in this version are: – […]