You can convert video for your iPod, iPod Touch and other PMP players using a free, open-source app called Handbrake. The full spiel on Handbrake is that it’s an “open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multithreaded video transcoder, […]
The latest build of Chromium (16060) bring with it an options dialog and a bookmarks importer! Several other updates over the last week have improved adding bookmarks: Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk
Ubuntu 9.04 was only released last month but the first alpha for next release, Ubuntu 9.10 ‘Karmic Koala’, has scuttled down from its gum tree and skipped in to the release pen. The first alpha […]
Google’s Chromium browser has broken free from it’s terminal, grabbed some GTK colours for it’s tab bar and continues to make big strides towards the first Alpha release. The current Chromium build (at the time […]
Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, yesterday opened an official beta for ‘Ubuntu One’, a free online storage and syncing solution. Ubuntu One helps you store, sync and share Ubuntu One adds a folder to your […]
Want to preview your files/movies/images/text a la Mac OS X ‘Quick Look’ feature? Then look no further because GloobusPreview does it all – and then some! GloobusPreview allows you to view the contents of a […]
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 […]