In the latest daily build of Google’s Chromium browser, the familiar ‘Windows XP’ style tab bar was replaced with something less ‘polished’ that may be the first steps towards implementing full GTK themeing for the […]
Edward Hervey, maintainer of the most promising and advanced Linux Video Editor ‘PiTiVi’ answered some pertinent and probing questions from Christian F.K. Schaller over on the PlanetGnome blog. Below are some of the highlights of […]
It’s been a while since a Wallpaper-only post (don’t look below! Eek!) so what better way to kill a few minutes than to look at some pretty pictures and decide whether they’re awesome enough to […]
I love KDE’s “Weather Wallpaper” plug-in. It automatically changes your desktop background to a high-resolution photo of your local weather conditions, like so:- Seeeeeexy! For Gnome, however, the choices are a little more… well… ‘Gnome’. […]
This sleek light theme is the perfect antidote to the massive increase in dark themes jostling for attention over on Gnome-look.org – where i first spotted this. One complaint would be the Metacity borders, which […]
Literal Ubuntu “desk top”, originally uploaded by d0od. I created this wallpaper out or boredom, but it actually turned out very well! It’s essentially a table top wallpaper with “desk” type accessories for you to […]
Jaunty’s sexy new notifications are loved by some and hated by others but nonetheless will continue to be part of Ubuntu for the foreseeable future. Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu founder) kicked off a discussion on the […]
This is part 2 of Mark Shuttleworth’s monthly Q+A with the Ubuntu Community. You can read Part One here. ‘MS’ = Mark Shuttleworth Has there been any dialog with Apple on bringing official iTunes/iPod support […]
Apple may have Steve Jobs, Microsoft their Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer but we Ubuntu lovers have our own awesome over-lord in the form of Canonical head and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. He even dubs […]
Ubuntu launched the first official version of its new Ubuntu Netbook Remix (UNR) last week, providing a powerful yet optimised user interface for netbook needs. Annoyingly though the debut of Ubuntu Netbook Remix (which is […]
Auto-mounting an NTFS partition in Ubuntu is really easy — and really useful if, for instance, you have a dedicated NTFS drive you use to keep files on that you access in both Windows and […]
Social-networking fiends and web 2.0-a-holics will likely have heard of Flock, the Firefox-based fork describing itself as a ‘social browser’ — which some say will change browsing as we know it. Flock makes using social […]