Ubuntu 9.10 uses Xsplash for its boot loading screen and though the default look is pretty, a number of different designs were proposed. Below you’ll find 3 super awesome Xsplash themes based on those original […]
As part of our on-going “Humanity Style Icons” series, lots of users have mentioned wanting to change their DropBox tray icons. Currently this is not possible, and affects users of all Operating Systems – not […]
Google’s photo-management come editor program ‘Picasa’ is a wonderful application for sorting and imporiving the appearance of your photos. Shame it looks lame in Ubuntu! Thankfully you can do a few things to improve the look of Picasa, the […]
TechCrunch are reporting that ChromeOS could be launched within a week – albeit for a limited set of devices (mainly netbooks). This isn’t a crazy supposition given Google themselves had announced plans for an early version to […]
OpenSuse 11.2 was released today and what better way to nod your head to the distro who’s company (Novell) are behind so many wonderful applications Ubuntu users enjoy – F-Spot, Banshee, Evolution. (Well scratch that […]
Docky now have an official development PPA, so wherever you were getting Docky from previously you’ll probably want to swap and use this one. Of course, please note the word ‘development’ in the title; this […]
CheckGMail is a popular panel applet for notifying a user of new mail in their Gmail account. It’s also popular for annoying Ubuntu users since it doesn’t use the notification system like most other applications […]
Love Banshee but prefer Muine’s interface? Well you can get a Muine-looking Banshee it with one command! Nothing to install or download. Banshee with Muine-like Interface Muine? What the frakk is that?! Muine is a […]
The facebook-chat plugin for Pidgin available in Ubuntu’s repositories is out-of-date and doesn’t work with recent versions of Pidgin spitting out “wrong-credentials” pop-ups and the like. Instead you’ll want to use the most recent version […]
This icon will replace the current colourful Ubuntu logo icon in the top left with a monochrome Humanity style one. Perhaps an humanity icon too far? Not to me! You can get it @ http://gnome-look.org […]
Emerillon is a map viewer for GNOME that uses OpenStreetMap data (a wiki for maps) to display custom “views” such as transport, cycle routes and terrain as well as the general “street” view. Given that […]
Ubuntu users can get a the cool functionality of Windows 7’s “Aero Snap” with a few copy’s and a few pastes thanks to an awesome tutorial on the UbuntuForums by forum-er gotsanity. Props and cookies […]