GTG! – our favourite task manager application – has gained itself a Docky helper! A docky helper is a small plugin that adds functionality to the dock icon when the application is open. We’ve already […]
An anonymous soul emailed me this mocked-up theme for Ubuntu Lucid. They provided some reasoning behind what you see: – The thing for me is that there are always little things that bother me with […]
The Ubuntu Manual project today released the first Alpha of the highly popular and eagerly anticipated “beginners guide”. We interviewed the Ubuntu Manual project leader Benjamin Humphrey a few weeks back (see here) so if […]
Yahoo! is the new default search engine in Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04. As with every release the firefox “start page” is redesigned, with the switch to a new search provider this change is even more […]
Empathy in Lucid will have a pre-configured option for adding a Facebook Chat account thanks to Facebook opening up their Facebook Chat protocol earlier this week. Chatting to your Facebook contacts via most multi-protocol clients […]
The community outcry over the removal of OpenOffice from Ubuntu Netbook Edition has seen developers reaching for a rethink over the controversial decision. The first reversal earlier this week that saw AbiWord and GNUMeric step […]
Pino Version: 0.1.5 Pino (a twitter application We’ve blogged about many times previously) has added URL shortening, options to specify how many statuses to display, fonts, start up mode and quite a bit more in […]
So we’ve droned on and on and on about the make-it-default-already proposed Lucid Metacity Homosapien. It’s amazing, beautiful stuff. Zac Barton – fast becoming my favourite themer – has now created an online customization tool […]
OpenShot is an awesome video editor that we love around here. Elementary is an awesome theme that we love around here. Get the idea? OpenShot is fully themeable (which a lot of people don’t seem […]
Facebook made their ‘Facebook chat’ protocol all awesome and nice today by adding support for the Jabber/XMPP protocol. This means you can have facebook chat in Pidgin, Empathy, etc without the need for buggy third-party […]
The following idea, proposed on Ubuntu Brainstorm, puts forward the sugeestion that users should be allowed to configure the application set before installation. Sort of like the Windows Browser ballot but for, well, pretty much […]
Pino is a fantastic little twitter application. We’ve blogged about it many times previously and know many of you love it. One thing that still comes up as an ‘issue’ whenever we blog about it […]