Enabling RGBA GTK – or, for a helpful description, ‘proper window transparency’ – used to require a ton of compiling followed by a lot of groaning and wondering whether it was worth it. Well those […]
The Ubuntu Manual project are hosting “48 hours of Ubuntu Manual learning this Monday and Tuesday. The interactive event aims to: – “…provide information on the tools that the Ubuntu Manual Project uses to help […]
Pino 0.2 was released was released a few hours ago, adding a slick roster of new features. Experimental Features The new features are: – Identi.ca support Multi account support Conversation view Single instance mode Option […]
Midori 0.2.3 has been released to the wilds and a jam-packed release it is too! Midori?! What the frell is that? It’s a GTK+ based Webkit browser that is extremely fast and extremely awesome. It […]
Give Emesene the power of Messaging Menu interaction. Kinda. By ‘kinda‘ I do, of course, mean that this plug-in is still in development and as such some things don’t quite work. Namely clicking on an […]
Although people look for the big show-stopping killer-improvements when a new release of Ubuntu rolls around I find that it can be the small things which make the biggest difference. During the Lucid development cycle […]
I wake up (rather late) to some awesome, awesome news: Ubuntu is getting a brand new theme. In an YouTube interview with the Dell “vlog” recorded just yesterday Mark Shuttleworth revealed that a brand spanking […]
We deduced (via some flawed logic and some stray pixels) that it would be 7Digital powering the Ubuntu Music Store back in November and it now seems that we weren’t wrong! Blogger Popey posted up […]
A new method of alerting Ubuntu users to potentially headache-inducing system updates is being launched – via twitter! Users following @ubuntustatus will be informed of any issues or problems with update packages and advise users […]
Although a new name has yet to be decided for Nautilus-Elementary’s CoverFlow view (don’t forget to cast your vote on a new name in our poll) you’re probably itching to try it out, huh? Install […]
The Elementary-Nautilus team are trying to decide what to call their “CoverFlow” view in Nautilus and they need your help. See the image above? Well like me you probably call it CoverFlow in your head […]
CoverGloobus – an awesome application for displaying cover art and lyrics on your desktop – quietly released version 1.6 at the beginning of this month. If you’ve been reading the blog for a while chances […]