OpenShot is an new non-linear video editor similar in feature set to ‘Windows Movie Maker’ or Apple’s ‘iMovie’. Although currently in development, the latest release is surprisingly stable and comes with a raft of features […]
Rhythmbox ships with many popular plug-ins already installed – such as lastfm scrobble support, visualizations, DAAP music sharing and iPod support, but you can expand Rhythmbox’s features further with third party plug-ins that range from […]
Bilbo is a desktop blog editor for Linux that supports many online blog services including Blogger (Blogspot), WordPress, MovableType and MetaWeblog. It features a full featured WYSIWYG editor and an HTML editor as well as […]
Gwibber 2.0, next major release of the popular desktop microblogging application for Gnome, will boast many new features, support for more services and sport a newly redesigned interface. Improved first-run set up “wizard” Support for […]
Nautilus (the default file manager in Ubuntu) is able to display thumbnails for various different types of files: photos, video, audio, text documents, etc. With a simple script it can also display thumbnails for OpenOffice […]
Leo Lannacone has designed the perfect Gwibber theme to compliment the GTK Dust theme. You can download the code using bazaar*: – bzr branch lp:~l3on/gwibber/dust-theme To install it, put it into the following folder: ~/.local/share/gwibber/ui/themes/ […]
Below are 8 minimal GTK2 themes for your Ubuntu desktop. To install them either follow the instructions given or use the ‘Appearances’ dialog from the ‘System’ menu. MurrinaStudio http://drfr4g.deviantart.com/art/MurrinaStudio-78479558 T3K http://amadme.deviantart.com/art/T3K-103862094 Gaia Neue http://fratrip.deviantart.com/art/Gaia-Neue-Suite-100383098 […]
Ubuntu is currently developing a centralised “App Store” to simplify the adding/removing/updating/configuring of software within Ubuntu. It’s already easy! Isn’t it…? Lets start off with a quote: – If Linux has an Achilles heel, from […]
Our series on what new software users can expect to find in Karmic Koala come October continues. Today we take a sneak peak at the shiny new additions to Ubuntu’s installer ‘Ubiquity’. Canonical have been […]
Google Search insights ‘predicts’ that ‘Ubuntu’ will be more popular than ‘Linux’ by 2010. (In terms of search, of course!) This week Google launched a “forecast” feature in Google Insights for Search. It examines the […]
In the first of a series on the new software can expect to find in Ubuntu 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’ this October, we take a look at the new GNOME Control Centre. Akin to the Windows […]
Emesene 1.5 code named “Awesome” has been released. This updated version of the Linux application, for use with the ‘Windows Live Messenger‘ network, sees a host of buxfixes and the usual internal tweaks. Feature wise, […]