Placeholder koala image

MurrinaChrome – Best Chrome-like GTK Theme Yet

A few days ago I posted a gorgeous Emerald theme based on Google Waves’ interface. In that post I mentioned i couldn’t find a decent GTK theme to match it. Thankfully reader Nicolas came up […]

29 November 2009
Placeholder koala image

Get Applications That Didn’t Make The Ubuntu CD Available In One Download with ‘B-Sides’

“B-Sides” installs a selection of software that “didn’t make the Ubuntu disc” but “complements” the Ubuntu desktop well. Just like a B-side on a music CD! Keeping with Ubuntu’s ‘one application per task’ rule it […]

29 November 2009
Placeholder koala image

Google Wave Emerald Theme Is Way Too Gorgeous, Lonely

Google Wave has some beautiful window borders going on, and someone has taken the time to convert them into an Emerald theme thus bringing the beauty of Wave to you desktop. click to view bigger […]

27 November 2009
Placeholder koala image

Easy Imageshack Uploading In Ubuntu

Imageshack.us is a popular way to host images for free without needing to login and create an account. There are various ways to upload to Imageshack in Ubuntu – not least of which is the […]

27 November 2009
Placeholder koala image

Is The New gThumb A Potential F-Spot Killer?

gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop that allows users to manage, tag, sort, view and edit their photo collection from the one application. It can import photos directly from digital […]

26 November 2009
Placeholder koala image

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
Placeholder koala image

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
Placeholder koala image

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
Placeholder koala image

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
Placeholder koala image

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
Placeholder koala image

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
Placeholder koala image

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