Ever wanted to browse your music collection via cover art in Rhythmbox? Say hello to the ‘Art Display Browser’ plug-in by Manuw2009. not my theme; yes that it rhythmbox Features Once installed the cover-art mode […]
These Lucid theme proposals are coming in thick and fast. Today saw the addition of ‘X-IV‘ (10.04 in Roman numerals) a ‘Human Deluxe’ theme that works exceptionally well with the Homosapien or Lucidty metacities. “The […]
GTG! – our favourite task manager application – has gained itself a Docky helper! A docky helper is a small plugin that adds functionality to the dock icon when the application is open. We’ve already […]
An anonymous soul emailed me this mocked-up theme for Ubuntu Lucid. They provided some reasoning behind what you see: – The thing for me is that there are always little things that bother me with […]
The Ubuntu Manual project today released the first Alpha of the highly popular and eagerly anticipated “beginners guide”. We interviewed the Ubuntu Manual project leader Benjamin Humphrey a few weeks back (see here) so if […]
Yahoo! is the new default search engine in Firefox in Ubuntu 10.04. As with every release the firefox “start page” is redesigned, with the switch to a new search provider this change is even more […]
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 […]