Ever wanted to let Ubuntu know which applications you want to see included in future releases? Well here’s your chance! Ubuntu Forum Council member Matthew Helmke – who also co-authored one of the books that […]
Ubuntu Forum user genaroneto has posted an excellent tutorial on how to change the colour of the Notification bubbles in Karmic to one of your choosing. I won’t re-print the entire tutorial here as it’s […]
IMPloader is a small script that sets your wallpaper as a collage of posters from the current top 10 cinema releases. One caveat is that the script pulls its ‘data’ from a US-based soruce, meaning […]
Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.0 has now been released – just over a week after the launch of the online user-interactive database – UTCOM – that the application draws its data from. New features in 0.5.0 include: […]
Video Editor OpenShot announced the release of it’s seminal version 1.0 earlier today packing in so many new features, improvements and bug fixes I’m not sure I’ll be able to mention them all! The full […]
Having to contend with intermittent electricity in my house today means this is likely the only post of the day. So, instead of pushing out something half-baked I thought i’d go the whole-hog and not […]
Clutter-Flow brings a CoverFlow interface to Banshee – allowing you to browse through your music in style. Any Good? The extension uses the Clutter toolkit to provide the graphical interface and despite it currently being […]
Empathy will be getting a custom theme for its inclusion in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. David Siegel, who works for Ubuntu’s Design and User Experience team, posted the news on his twitter account, also mentioning […]
The second Alpha release of Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx is due for release next Thursday (14th January) but what can you expect to find inside it? Applications The GIMP will has been removed from Alpha […]
The GRUB menu animating/themeing application ‘BURG’ received a PPA update today resulting in some changes to how you install themes. If you have yet to install BURG then you can skip this article and follow […]
Using XML animated background creator to create auto-changing wallpapers is a snip. It allows you to specify the folder and images you wish to use, the duration of each wallpaper and auto-generates the required .xml […]
Whilst Adobe provide a 32bit version of their Adobe Air application for Linux, a native x64 version remains a dream. Thankfully, with few installed dependencies, the 32bit version will happily run on a 64bit installation […]