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 […]
Four new themes have been chosen for Lucid’s community-themes package. These themes – along with updates version of 4 old favourites – can be installed in Lucid using the following command: – sudo apt-get install […]
Nautilus – the default file manager in Ubuntu – has an interface many consider to be awful and overly complex. It has button after button, toolbar after toolbar, menu after menu – and just looks, […]
You can help choose the brand new icon for the lightweight linux music player Guayadeque. Which design do you think suits it best? Vote!
The third alpha release of new Ubuntu spin Lubuntu is now available to download. Among the features and changes new to Alpha 3 (i.e., since Alpha 2) are the following: – Chromium is now the […]