Last.fm lovers addicted to music streaming service should cancel their therapy and check out the following shiny new application named ‘Chipmunk’. Created by Arch Linux user Andy Kluger, who has a self-confessed dependency on Last.fm, the […]
P-Launcher is a simple utility providing simple package-overview, saving and ‘mini’ management. Whilst not intended as a replacement for Synaptic it is portable, requires no dependencies & allows a user to: – Save packages – creates a list of […]
Ever wanted to set video as your desktop wallpaper a la the quickly-ditched Windows DreamScene? With 'Video Wallpaper' it's easy.
Kill some free time and help out science at the same time with Foldit – an experimental puzzle game that, simply by playing, helps computers to deal with bioinformatics and protein folding. Premise The basic […]
Whilst most drawing applications seek to provide users with as many possible ways to edit and draw accurately as possible, Alchemy doesn’t. The Java-based application seeks to give users ‘a way to explore and experiment with […]
Furious iConverter is, as the name might suggest, a video conversion tool for use with iPod, iPod Touch & iPhone. The simple GTK interface provides users with a convenient front-end for converting any FFMpeg-supported video format into iPod/iPhone friendly MP4. […]
Popular launcher applications Do and Kupfer may have some competition – say hello to the incredibly lightweight Alawalk. Alawalk, the brainchild of a developer named ‘hunterm‘, is a new launcher application made completely in plain bash. […]
The Vuze team have released version 4.5 of the popular BitTorrent client. This latest release provides users with a new speed test, support for transcoding and transferring content to Android phones and iOS 4. The new […]
For efficient task management Ubuntu users are spoilt. Tomboy, GTG!, Tasque, Tasks and a slew of others besides; they’re all packed with awesome features that help you get what needs to be done, done! Now supposedly […]
The never-ceasing distractions of tweets, pokes on Facebook, Gmail spam & match.com matches to review are all enemies of writing. Was there ever an activity assailed by the vampires of impetuosity as much as writing? Marave aims to […]
The first alpha release of open-source Dropbox competitor SparkleShare has been made available for testing today. SparkleShare is built on mono, GTK+ and requires users to use Git for storage. Don’t have a Git repo? […]
Another week and another media player. Say hello to Xnoise – a self-described ‘lightweight’ music and video player that has been making a lot of noise of late. Written in vala – and therefore more […]