Make your IM convo’s in Pidgin a bit brighter by installing some new emoticons. Here’s the OMG! pick of our top 3 favourite emoticon packs for pidgin. (Instructions on how to use them follows at […]
Progress on Chrome for Linux is pushing onwards nicely.
Would you dig a touchscreen mobile internet device running a full Ubuntu desktop that was light, small and totally portable? What if i said you could get one for just £90 / $130 / €97? […]
Here’s a quick solution to enable your gnome panels to FULLY auto-hide (with no silly and annoying little bit sticking out!) and pop up quicker when you hover over them. First of all make sure […]
Google’s Linux based Mobile Operating System ‘Android’ (Gee, try saying all that with a mouthful of doughnut!) comes with some very sexy fonts called ‘Droid’. The fonts are crisp, clear and far nicer looking/easier to […]
Playing around in Google Search Insights earlier, i punched in ‘Ubuntu’ to see which countries were searching for it most: – 2004 – Present That’s not entirely surprising – Cuba itself launched a version of […]
The oncoming release of Jaunty will also see the first release of an official netbook version of Ubuntu – namely the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Whilst the interface has been floating about for a while and is easily […]
Fotoxx is a very simple, straight forward photo editor that aims “…to meet most photo editing needs while remaining easy to use.” And it succeeds! It has many, many features a short selection of which […]
Gwibber is a microblogging client for the GNOME desktop. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, and RSS, with support for more services being added all the time. Gwibber allows you to post updates, read updates, reblog, retweet, […]
A not-entirely-major revision to the Jaunty Jackalope login screen was released today. Have a peek: – Doesn’t look any different to you? Here’s the original Jaunty GDM: – It’s a subtle change, but a good […]
Battery Screenlet This first one is a very simple battery screenlet that displays your real-time battery power as a graphic. It’s icon is based on the Tango battery icon, so it integrates well into […]
A brand new set of desktop wallpapers just landed in the Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”. So far, the Ubuntu 9.04 alpha releases have simply re-used the same wallpaper design you’ll have seen in Ubuntu 8.10. […]