It’s the IM client everyone loves to hate but for all its perceived shortcomings Empathy remains a perfectly usable and roundly featured application – hence why it’s default! For Ubuntu 10.04 Empathy gains a new […]
Over a week ago we revealed that a big announcement regrading the re-branding of Ubuntu was imminent. That announcement has now been made – but even we didn’t expect it to be quite as big […]
A few days ago we asked you which applications you would choose to be “featured” application on the shelves of the Ubuntu 10.04 Software Center. Since then the list has swelled from a meagre 4 […]
Banshee 1.5.4 was released last week with some shiny new features and a handful of new functions – including equaliser presets, extra shuffle modes and, notably, an opt-in usage data collector thingy. Gabriel Burt, a […]
MeMaker is an easy to use avatar creation program for Linux. Aside from being fun to play about with, the avatars created can be easily saved, exported to your Launchpad account for use as your […]
With 7Digital powering the forthcoming UbuntuOne Music Store thoughts will invariably turn to pricing. How much will a track cost? What about an album? Is it cheaper than iTunes? I take a little stroll through […]
There’s an old saying “Use the right tool for the job” – common-sense advice that applies to pretty much any situation – especially in Software. But what happens when the ‘right tools for the job’ […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or not reading this blog regularly, which is something you should address) you will have heard that a new Ubuntu-branded music store is in the works. To date, […]
Ubuntu community leader Jono Bacon has just announced the location of the next Developer Summit. The location? Brussels, Belgium. The Ubuntu Developer Summit – or UDS as it’s more commonly referred to – is one […]
gThumb is to be included in Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition as the default image editor F-Spot, the default image editor in regular Ubuntu, was removed from the UNE live-cd only a few days ago. The […]
Regular readers will know that we enjoy a close relationship with the Ubuntu Manual project and as such we’re pretty stoked to see the project get a shiny new website over @ ubuntu-manual.org. There’s not […]
Yarssr (Yet Another RSS Reader) is an RSS reader for the GNOME panel. It displays an icon in the notification area which changes colour to alert you to feed updates. Clicking on the icon give you […]