Chromium (and very shortly Google Chrome) allows UserScripts to be installed in just like extensions! You click on the ‘install’ and the script installs. This means no external “greasemonkey” application is needed to use UserScripts in […]
Grub2 – the default boot-loader for new installations of Ubuntu 9.10 – has some nifty new features – including support for background images and custom font colours. Whilst the previous version of GRUB could also […]
Gnome 3.0, which is due to bring the love/hate Gnome-Shell to users desktops, was originally slated in for a March 2010 release. This may now be pushed back to September 2010 due to the "beta quality" of Gnome-Shell; there is just too much work to be done on it and just not enough time.
Want a rotational, zoom-able globe on your desktop? How about a flying animated star field?! Welcome to QUirky WaLlpapers KDE Edition. Star-Field “plasma-wallpaper-starfield” is a desktop background for KDEthat places an animated starfield over your […]
Xubuntu Karmic has a really nice XSplash animation effect during it’s boot up. It resembles, to me at least, a bunch of swarming fireflies. You can see it for yourself in this dodgy handheld video […]
The Kubuntu development team have today announced ‘Project Timelord‘ – a set of clear aims, goals and changes they hope will have a regenerative effect on the popularity of the distribution. It has come to […]
One annoyance in Karmic is the fact some iPod’s won’t work in Banshee “out of the box”. This is due to Ubuntu moving from HAL to devicekit for managing and notifying the system when hardware […]
Skype is going to be open-sourced! I won’t dwell too long on this as you can check the full post on Slashdot via Olivier Faurax’s blog post. Whilst asking about a Skype package for some […]
Continuing our series on ‘Humanity Style Icons’ for other applications we arrive at cloud storage service DropBox. There are two different versions available currently: – Install Download the replacement icons @ gnome-look.org Extract the […]
Karmic has made good progress on the road to the much-vaunted “10 second boot” aim in mind for 10.04. But you can get it even faster if you’re prepared to take the risk! Reader ‘Ellipsis’ […]
The UbuntuTweak team have released a new version of the oh-so-popular all-round desktop tweaking application to celebrate the launch of Karmic Koala. It brings new PPA’s & Updated sources – some only available for Karmic […]
Firefox 4.0 is not due to be released for well over another yeah but mock-ups of the premier open-source browser’s proposed visual refresh as it will look on Linux have been mocked-up and shown off […]