April 29th will see the release of new addition to the Ubuntu family. Joining Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu will be a new lightweight version – ‘Lubuntu’. (And no, the ‘L’ doesn’t stand for lightweight! More […]
Any regular readers who chew down OMG! Ubuntu’s! posts outside of a feed-reader should, hopefully, notice there’s been a bit of a spot and polish on the theme around here. If you just read “posts” […]
Ever tried creating a URL shortcut with Firefox in Ubuntu only to find yourself frustrated? Yes that does sound the opening line to an insurance advert, but it’s not! Easily creating desktop shortcuts to webpages […]
The second Alpha of the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx development cycle has been released. This is the second of three Alpha releases, the last of which will arrive on February 25th. This will be followed […]
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 […]