How many of you once came across a cool sounding application and eagerly downloaded it only to find it was an alien sounding “.tar.gz” which, upon instinctively double clicking, did not do what you expected […]
Firefox uses its own notification system for alerting users to various events. These can easily be missed on an Ubuntu system as users are used to seeing notifications appear in the top right-hand corner. Thankfully […]
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Crikey on a bike! It’s another Docky post! No, this isn’t turning into OMG! Docky! but development is quite breathtakingly fast on it so there’s always lots to tell you about… Read All About It […]
The impression themes – already available in Karmic via the community-themes package, have been proposed for inclusion in Lucid Lynx. These updated version of Impression sport cleaner lines, more cohesive design considerations and a few […]
The Opera development team have given all Linux users something to smile about this fresh new years day – the Pre-Alpha of Opera 10.5! Opera 10.5 Pre Alpha looking pretty “Blazingly fast” First impressions are […]
Songbrid has gained video playback capabilities in the beta for forthcoming 1.5.0 release “Led Zepplin”. Video formats/codecs supported so far are WMV, MPEG-4, Theora and H.264, though the songbird team themselves note that “support is […]
Ubuntu Tweak – a popular tweaking application for Ubuntu – funnily enough – today launched its new website, which can be found at http://ubuntu-tweak.com/. Website + App = Amazing! The new website, to be known […]
Dock application ‘Docky’ only came into its singular being this year yet already is one of the most popular 3rd party applications available for Linux (though here’s hoping it makes it into ‘the repo’s come […]
Ailurus is an Ubuntu enhancement and application management programme designed to help Ubuntu users tweak, tune and get more from their systems. Ailurus really does pack in a ton of common enhancement tricks and tips, […]
The usual story given to a user who asks “is 64bit Ubuntu is worth it?” on the Ubuntu Forums is a muddle of “not really…”, “not that much faster…”, “if what you got works, stay […]
I posted earlier about Banshee’s magical playlist generator that queues songs in your library based on them sounding similar. Rhythmbox users can get something similar by making use of Last.FM reccomendations via the Dynamic Tracks […]