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 […]
Ubuntu supremo Jono Bacon has been blogging about Gwibber and tweeting in Ubuntu Lucid – including the awesome screenshot of a mutli-column Gwibber as shamlessly pasted above. He rather eloquently raves about it: – No […]
Installing Nvidia drivers manually isn’t as big of a deal as it sounds. It’s literally a few button pushes, a round of “Ok”, “Ok”, “Ok” and a reboot. In many respects it’s the easiest way […]
You know the drill by now… The following are proposed themes for inclusion in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Lumus One aspect where this theme stands out is that it’s not dark AND it’s not a […]
A few days ago we shared word that the OpenOffice.org suite of apps was to be dropped from default installs of Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition. Many of you cheered, many of you did a double-take […]