Earlier we reported on the decision to ditch The GIMP in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx LTS. Lots of reasons why this is a good thing, and a fair few as to why it isn’t, but what […]
Annoyed that in Karmic you can no-longer switch between desktops using your mouse wheel? De-annoy yourself thanks to this easy fix. Open up CompizConfigSettingsManager Go to ‘Viewport Switcher’ Choose the ‘Desktop-based Viewport Switching’ tab Enable […]
One feature is on the lips of everyone excited about Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid Lynx’: the new Ubuntu One Music Store. Ubuntu Music Store will let us purchase music inside the desktop music player More pertinently, […]
UDS Wednesday kicked off with a super interesting session; a meeting entitled “Application selection in the default install“. Over three posts I’ll present the main ideas and discussions from these meetings: Whittling the default game […]
UDS Wednesday kicked off with a super interesting session; a meeting entitled “Application selection in the default install“. Over three posts I’ll present the main ideas and discussions from these meetings: Whittling the default game […]
GNOME’s iconic Tetris clone Quadrapassel completes its GTK4 port, adds touch controls, mobile mode, improved scoring, and more gameplay features.
It’s a slow news day and this is mildly exciting so here’s the deal: Google ChromeOS will be “demoed” in 2 days time. This is, once again, according to TechCrunch. Although now retreating on their […]
Pidgin’s preferences menu will be getting a overhaul in time for it’s next major release. Keen to solve the current “bug reports” regarding Pidgin’s preferences window not fitting on a netbook sized screen, a plucky […]
Bookmark Sync in Chromium landed a few days ago and today sees the turn of Google Chrome Unstable gaining this feature with the latest dev channel update. As with Chromium you simply need to add […]
Adobe have today made available a Beta version of Adobe Air 2. New Features, Better Capabilities New features that Adobe Air 2 brings with it include: – Ability to detect and use USB devices Native […]
MiniTube 0.8 was released today bringing with the ability to play HD videos from YouTube, flash-free and directly on your desktop. Yes, this doesn’t require the need for Flash! At all! Also new in the […]
The familiar name of Ubuntu Netbook Remix will disappear when the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ‘Lucid Lynx’ goes live, in favour of a more official sounding name: Ubuntu Netbook Edition. An official blueprint for this change […]