The official spiel describes Shotwell as an “open source photo organizer” for the GNOME desktop. It is, however, a little bit more than that. Not much, but a little. Photo organization Organization in Shotwell takes […]
KSplice is an incredibly useful application that allows important updates to be installed (such as new kernels, etc) without requiring the need for a reboot. Co-founder Waseem Dahr put it quite eloquently in an e-mail to me: […]
There are quite a number of different twitter clients available on Ubuntu. I decided to try some of them out and find a favourite… There are a few key things i look for in a […]
OpenTumblr is a desktop blog poster for the Tumblr service. It supports all categories of Tumblr and works very well, indeed! I’ve blogged about it previously on this blog so this update is simply regarding […]
Gnome-Do’s Docky mode will soon no longer be part of Gnome-Do but instead launch itself as a standalone application. Arguably the most popular dock for Linux there has ever been, Docky has found itself “outgrowing” […]
Hulu, the popular American TV streaming site, today finally launched a native Linux desktop application for their service. Built on Fedora and Ubuntu 9.04, the app is designed to play nice with Ubuntu from the […]
pyGtranslator is a desktop application that utilizes Google Translate and lets you translate – from your desktop! Nice! Simple paste your text, select the “to” and “from” language and hit translate. Of course, translations are […]
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 […]
Run Google Tasks on your desktop – complete with all the features from the online version thanks to Mozilla Prism. Installation You can install this via the standalone Mozilla Prism package from the repo’s however […]
PDF Mod is an easy-to-use straight-forward application for modifying and basic editing of PDF documents. Simplicity is the name of the game with PDFmod so don’t expect excessive amounts of configuration options or tools not […]
EarCandy is a smart volume manager for PulseAudio that fades applications in and out based on your current activity. It will automatically mute your music when a Movie or a YouTube video starts. And will […]
Google this week released Picasa 3.5 for Windows and Mac. Sadly no Linux version was offered, a fact Google blamed on the lowly adoption figures they have for Picasa on Linux. I think that’s a […]