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UbuntuOne KDE Frontend Coming Soon (PPA Inside)

KDE dev Harald Sitter has been working on something a lot of Kubuntu users are going to love: A native UbuntuOne frontend for KDE. And boy-oh-boy is does it look the business! The systray application […]

25 November 2009
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Spatial Desktop: One Script, Ultimate Minimalist Desktop

Spatial Desktop is a theming script that transforms your GNOME desktop into a minimal and uncluttered space. Essentially  a combination of themes, applications and tweaks, it maximizes space by removing GNOME Panels, toolbars and applets, […]

25 November 2009
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Inkscape 0.47 Released – Gains a ton of new features & improvements

The latest version of popular vector graphic application Inkscape was released yesterday bringing with it a hefty amount of features and improvements. The new features users will be getting their paws adjusted to include: – […]

25 November 2009
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OpenShot Users Website Launched

An online site for users of Linux Video editor OpenShot has been launched. OpenShotUsers.com titles itself as a “community …to offer help and tips to other users, share themes, showcase your videos or just say […]

24 November 2009
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100 Papercuts Returns For Lucid

David Siegel has posted about the plans for the “100 papercuts” proposals for Lucid Lynx. For those that don’t know, the 100 papercuts initiative sets out to fix those tiny bugs and trivial user interface […]

24 November 2009
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Poll: Do You Use F-Spot?

Last week at the Ubuntu Developer Summit, plans were hatched for what was to be included in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. GIMPs removal from the default applications line-up in Lucid was down to many of […]

24 November 2009
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Use Themes To Make DestroyTwitter Blend Into Your Ubuntu Desktop

DestroyTwitter is an Adobe Air based twitter client that is popular with many Ubuntu users. One of it’s lesser known features are its theming abilities. I’ve chucked together a list of some themes I’ve used […]

24 November 2009
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Latest OpenShot Release Gains Super Timeline Enhancements

Not a day goes by without my love of OpenShot growing just that little bit deeper – and today is no exception as the latest version, deep breath, 0.9.54 was released today giving OpenShot yet […]

24 November 2009
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Qwit Twitter Application Gets A PPA

One of my favourite twitter clients available on Linux is ‘Qwit’ – a qt4 based Twitter applications with a ton of features baked in such as twitpic uploading, URL shortening, contact management & more. Qwit […]

23 November 2009
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Share Your Rhythmbox Library with Empathy Contacts

Want to share your music collection with a contact over Empathy? Yesterday i told you how to do it in Banshee, now it’s the turn of Rhythmbox! As with the Banshee plug-in that offers the […]

23 November 2009
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Share Your Banshee Library With Contacts On Empathy

Ever wanted to share your Banshee library with your Empathy contacts? Well so did Neil Loknath who took it upon himself to make this functionality reality at Google’s Annual Summer Of Code. What does it […]

22 November 2009
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Docky Gains Panel Mode, Network Docklet & More

Docky gained a sleek new panel mode and a network manager docklet in an update to users of the Docky PPA yesterday. For those wondering why Docky is not longer part of GNOME Do see here […]

22 November 2009