Ubuntu 9.10 Mock-Up Xsplash’s Brought to Life (DEBs Inside)

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 […]

14 November 2009
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Vote To Change DropBox’s Tray Icons

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 […]

14 November 2009
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[How To] Improve The Look of Picasa In Ubuntu

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 […]

13 November 2009
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Google ChromeOS To Become Available Next Week (Apparently!)

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 […]

13 November 2009
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Celebrate OpenSuse 11.2 Being Released By Using Its GTK Theme!

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 […]

12 November 2009
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Official Docky Development PPA

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 […]

12 November 2009
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Get CheckGMail to Use Ubuntu Notification System Easily

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 […]

11 November 2009
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Give Banshee A Muine-Like Interface Using One Command

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 […]

11 November 2009
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Facebook Chat Plugin For Pidgin – Working Version

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 […]

11 November 2009
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Humanity Style Icon: The Main Ubuntu Menu Logo

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  […]

11 November 2009
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Desktop Map Viewer "Emerillion" For Ubuntu

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 […]

10 November 2009
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How To Enable Aero Snap in Ubuntu Linux Using Compiz

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 […]

10 November 2009