The first glimpse at the long-awaited (and much-desired) single window Gimp has been posted on GIMP developer Martin Nordholts blog. He updates that progress is coming on well, spurred on in part by the “overwhelmingly […]
Want to get rid of the ‘60 Seconds Until Shutdown/Reboot/Logout’ countdown? Blog reader knorre handily posted the how-to in a comment, which I’m re-posting here so it’s not overlooked! Simply open a terminal and: – […]
Google officially released a collection of 100 “Artists Themes for Chrome” today – a bunch of not entirely successful skins for Google Chrome designed by some of the worlds “best artists”, including Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, […]
Emesene 1.6 has now been released ?” find out more @ omgubuntu.co.uk/emesene-1.6-released-whats-new.html ——————————————————!#——————– Emesene 1.5 is one of the best instant messengers available for use with the MSN Network thanks to its massive feature set […]
CPUFREQ applet allows you to control your CPU speed directly from the gnome-panel. It sadly comes with some of the most awful looking icons ever created! If you’re using Karmic (or the humanity theme in […]
Anjai is a custom Evolution interface designed for use on netbooks, with it’s main screen optimized for 1024×600 sized screens. ROFL! Useless Trivia! Anjal means E-Mail in Tamil. Stylish (and useful!) Using WebKit […]
An official version of Google Chrome has been available to try out for several months. It fully supports flash and extensions, is super fast to both start-up and load pages and is so incredibly stable […]
Thunar is a lightweight file manager with a very light memory footprint, a less cluttered layout and pretty much all the features one needs in a file manager! Installing Thunar does not remove Nautilus so […]
Karmic’s new GDM isn’t as customizable as the previous version due to a complete re-write from the ground up. Just take a look at the login preferences screen from Jaunty: – and this is the […]
Want your video thumbnails in nautilus or thunar to display their official artwork from imdb? Say hello to imdb-thumbnail! Download Grab the official .deb file from the imdb-thumbnail launchpad @ : – https://launchpad.net/imdb-thumbnailer Installation Once […]
Installing fonts in Ubuntu is a bit of a hassle right now. You need to move them to a hidden folder, then run a command to refresh/rebuild the font cache. Often, to get them to […]
What better way to celebrate the release of Ubuntu 9.10 Beta than a smorgasbord of Karmic friendly wallpapers?! Simply Ubuntu Karmic Circles PhotonBeam Coffee Cup Storm A day At The Savannah Ubuntu Ubuntu Tattoo Be […]