More posts about “Apps”

Glippy – Simple Clipboard Manager with Image Support

Glippy is a self-confessed ‘simple clipboard manager for Ubuntu’ that provides clipboard support for history, images, text and more. Clip-board managers are useful tools for users who copy-and-paste frequently or wish to copy something but […]

24 June 2010

Weather Indicator Applet: Genesis of an itch into an app (Updated with PPA)

The new Date Time indicator that is all-set to replace the Gnome Clock applet in Ubuntu 10.10 will certainly make your life easier: A slick interface combines easy access to set timers and events direct from the […]

23 June 2010

Easy MySpace Music Download Application

As the name suggest MySpace Music Downloader is a tool for downloading music from MySpace. (Providing you have the permission of the work and copyright holder in questions.) If you’ve ever wanted to download a […]

23 June 2010

Radio Broadcasting made easy* with Internet Dj Console

A few days back I received a question from reader Nikos – who broadcasts a radio show @ http://www.poplie.eu/. It read: – I would like to run ubuntu for my station. For the time being  […]

21 June 2010

How to broadcast your Ubuntu Desktop (and more) on UStream, Justin.Tv, etc

Ever wanted to live-cast your Ubuntu desktop, slide show or even your webcam with some snazzy effects to UStream and similar live-broadcast sites? WebCamStudio for Linux makes it a snap. The JAVA-based application allows you […]

20 June 2010

HeyBuddy – a minimal identi.ca only desktop app for Linux

HeyBuddy is an indenti.ca only desktop microblogging application that is both nimble, light & designed to be simple to use. Features HeyBuddy doesn’t stuff a tray icon in your panel, there are no reams of […]

17 June 2010

Listen to radio stations in Ubuntu with RadioTray

Tuning into your favourite online radio stations without needing to open a dedicated music application is a breeze using RadioTray. The application runs directly from your system panel with a menu-only interface – thus making […]

16 June 2010

lxBDPlayer is BLu-ray playback software for Linux

lxBDPlayer, as the name suggests, is an open-source blu-ray disc player that uses the popular DumpHD decoder. Developed by 4 Students at French engineering school ESIEA the software aims to be easy to use – […]

15 June 2010

Elementary inspired mail client promises to bring sexy to desktop mail

As great as Evolution and Thunderbird are to use their interfaces won’t win any awards in a beauty contest. Hell not even a certificate for ‘good effort’. Evolution Express & Spicebird (a thunderbird based fork) […]

14 June 2010

mono tray icon for wakoopa monitor app

Do you use software tracking service Wakoopa? If so you may have installed the desktop plug-in in Ubuntu and noticed that the icon it uses a little bit on the bright side. You lost me […]

11 June 2010

Quirky Wallpaper: Real-time sunlight wallpaper

A few days back Benjamin posted an article on setting up a slick real-time Earth view wallpaper. In response to that Carles Sentis has sent us news of an awesome pet project of his which does […]

11 June 2010

SparkleShare aims to better dropbox with open source gusto; collaboration tools

A new ‘dropbox style’ synchronisation and collaboration tool aimed at open-source users has been announced today by Hylke Bons. Called SparkleShare aims to provide all of the same features of Dropbox but with better GNOME […]

10 June 2010
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