Buzzbird is an open-source desktop twitter application available on all major platforms – yes, including Linux! Features The feature-set covers pretty much everything one would want to do on twitter – bar twitpic integration (which […]
Gnome-Vlc is a new project designed to provide a simple GTK frontend to the popular Vlc player. Still in its infancy, the project was borne “…out of frustration with other players that failed to tick […]
A few days back we showed you an awesome Facebook applet for your GNOME panel called ‘Wallbox’. One of my criticisms of said application was that its icons were a bit on the… “lulwhat?” side. […]
Wallbox puts Facebook updates in your Ubuntu system tray, allowing you to: – Get notified of and read updates from your contacts Update your own status Read and respond to other peoples’ comments and links […]
Predicament: You want to be able to scrobble plays from your Creative Zen, Sony Ericsson phone or other MTP media device to LastFM in Ubuntu but you don’t know how. Well thanks to the i […]
Banshee 1.5.3 has been released. This latest version of the popular Linux media player sees a host of new feature additions including smart media-player syncing, folder watching* and easy cover-art editing. New Features in Banshee […]
‘Finestly‘ – a proposed theme for inclusion in Lucid Lynx – created a lot of reaction when we first blogged about it a few days ago. As dark themes go it certainly was on the […]
Version: 1.1.4 GoogSysTray is a notification area application that alerts you to updates for your various Google services, such as GMail, Google Reader and Google Wave. Application to get Google Reader updates in Ubuntu System […]
PopTray Minus is a notification area application for checking and notifying of new mail in your web account(s). A Linux port of the Windows application of the same name, the application is surprisingly feature-filled with […]
Yahoo! will replace Google as the new default search engine in Mozilla Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid Lynx’, Canonical has announced. Canonical’s Rick Spencer, a member of the desktop team, shared news of the change on […]
The Canonical design team are looking for volunteers in the London (UK) area to participate in user testing. Testing will take place on Friday 29th January, during the day, and will extend all through the […]
Banshee 1.5.3 will be released this coming Wednesday and will see a number of new features introduced, some of which users have longed for! New Features Here’s an exclusive OMG! run-down of what you can […]