The PiTiVi team today announced the release of the latest version of their impressive video editor – the first in the unstable 0.13 PiTiVi series. This release sees a number of improvements made, most notably: […]
I finally received my invitation to Ubuntu One a few days ago. I’ve been using the service daily ever since and I have to say the integration with Ubuntu is, as we all expected, second […]
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, […]
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 […]
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’. […]
Auto-mounting an NTFS partition in Ubuntu is really easy — and really useful if, for instance, you have a dedicated NTFS drive you use to keep files on that you access in both Windows and […]
Social-networking fiends and web 2.0-a-holics will likely have heard of Flock, the Firefox-based fork describing itself as a ‘social browser’ — which some say will change browsing as we know it. Flock makes using social […]
This post is a few months old. A newer version reviewing even more IM clients can be found by clicking this link. What is the best IM (Instant Messaging) Client for Ubuntu? Let’s find out! […]
Display album art (and lyrics!) for your playing tracks right on your desktop with CoverGloobus.
There are some incredibly useful applications that don’t ship with Ubuntu one for reason or another. Below I list my 5 of the best applications you might be missing out on! Pitivi – Simple Video […]
‘Pidgin Music Tracker’ is a small plug-in for Pidgin that will display your currently playing track as your status for all your contacts to see! Simply download the .deb file, double click, select install and […]