One complaint many users had when upgrading to Karmic was the loss of a GDM (login screen) setup tool to easily tweak the appearance of the login screen. Versions prior to Karmic allowed you to […]
Evolution Mirror is a Mozilla Sunbird extension designed to sync your Sunbird/Google Calendar appointments with the GNOME clock applet. Download https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/sunbird/addon/9656 Note you will also need to install python-evolution sudo apt-get install python-evolution Install the […]
A selection of replacement tray/app icons for the Pino Microblogging client. This set are ‘twitter’ style – perfect if you only use Pino for Tweeting. Fresh, yo! A speech bubble with a twitter style ‘t’ […]
A new theme has been added to the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx theme proposals titled ‘Sorbet‘. Remember that these proposals are vying for a place on a default install/community themes package but not as the […]
The developers behind lightweight music application ‘Guayadeque‘ are looking for a new icon to better represent it. The current Guayadeque icon looks rather dated and doesn’t embody the music player in the slightest: – Clipart […]
I will freely, happily and knowingly admit that the following new feature in Totem is quite possibly irrelevant to most people, but i thought I’d mention it anyway. When you press the space-bar or use […]
Jupiter is a hardware and power management applet for Linux and perfect for power-saving on netbooks and Laptops. Born from the bones of the popular EeeTray applet, Jupiter sees a shift in focus towards better […]
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 […]