Alpha 5 of Ubuntu 9.04 was released to the wild yesterday and brought with it the usual slew of bug fixes, but also a few other odds and sods! A quick bullet-ized run down would […]
The next version of Gnome-Do will come pre-packaged with several new docklets ” including the GMail docklet pictured above. It sits in your dock and simply informs you of mail via a ‘counter’ and has […]
Adobe’ Air is a multi-platform framework for running internet rich applications on the desktop. Whilst Adobe provide a version for 32bit Linux, a native x64 version remains a dream. Thankfully, with few installed dependencies, the […]
The fifth Alpha of Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala” has been released to the wild! Hoorah! This is the last “minor” Alpha release due, as the User Interface Freeze and the second ” most important ” […]
Frogr is a desktop Flickr Organizer For Gnome. Or at least it will be. Frogr only currently supports uploading of Photos to Flickr and the option to edit file details (titles, description, tags, etc) before […]
Desktop Flickr Organizer allows you to upload, download, manage, edit and organize your Flickr account’s photos ” including all of the above but offline! DFO makes it so simple to sort your Flickr photos and […]
Below are a selection of Image Viewers that provide more features than the default application and how they compare against it. Eye Of Gnome ” The Default App Being the “Stock” image viewer in Ubuntu […]
Font Matrix allows for easy installation and management of fonts on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions. FontMatrix can manage fonts already installed system-wide or on individual user accounts. Several unique features of FontMatrix include: – […]
The first public version of Gwibber 2.0 has been released on the Gwibber daily-builds PPA. Gwibber is an open-source microblogging client for the Gnome desktop that allows you to read, post and follow status updates […]
Canonical yesterday unveiled the Ubuntu Software Store, finally giving a name, and a face, to the integration of Add/Remove, Synaptic, and other package tools due in the upcoming release of Karmic Koala. Tech site Phoronix showed off […]
Skype 2.1 Beta was released for Linux yesterday brining with it a host of new and improved features ” including PulseAudio support! The last version of Skype for Linux was released over a year ago, […]
Auto-mounting NTFS / Windows Partitions in Ubuntu is actually really easy. It’s great, for example, if you have a partition you share between Windows and Linux with files on. Set NTFS/Windows Partitions To Auto-Mount 1. […]