Ever wanted to share your Banshee library with your Empathy contacts? Well so did Neil Loknath who took it upon himself to make this functionality reality at Google’s Annual Summer Of Code. What does it […]
Yet more in our series on Humanity Style icons – this time we look at clipboard manager application ‘Parcel lite’. Parcel lite I was in the middle of creating my own parcel-lite icons when these […]
Chromium (and very shortly Google Chrome) allows UserScripts to be installed in just like extensions! You click on the ‘install’ and the script installs. This means no external “greasemonkey” application is needed to use UserScripts in […]
A security hole in Gnome allows anyone to see your keyring passwords without needing to enter so much as a password. The Issue Despite needing to enter your root password to alter such basic things […]
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UbuntuOne can do a lot more than sync files between computers running Ubuntu. With Karmic it will finally gain some extra new functions – such as syncing contacts, Firefox bookmarks and tomboy notes. https://launchpad.net/bindwood
The Login screen for Karmic Koala has finally been pushed on the servers and made available through update manager. As i mentioned earlier this week the GDM sticks closely to the mock-up design proposed for […]
Anyone using the Karmic Alpha’s who has tried to install Dropbox will have noticed that the Jaunty .deb’s fail to work. Thankfully all you need to do is install it from source – which isn’t […]
Below are two quick methods of installation Gnome-Shell in Ubuntu. Please be aware that Gnome-Shell is still very much in development and should be treated as such. Karmic Koala If you want to try out […]
Karmic Beta 1 will be available to all in just TWO WEEKS time! Although nothing “new” as such will be present in the Beta, a lot of it will actually be “new” as in ‘the […]
Lifesaver is a new Gnome Screensaver that searches Twitter & Indenti.ca for mentions about Ubuntu, then displays them on your screen. Useful? Probably not. Geektastic? HELL YES. Sadly it only currently works in Karmic due […]
Update: An easier way to install this is to add the daily-builds PPA https://launchpad.net/~banshee-team/+archive/banshee-daily An updated version of Banshee’s Last.FM plugin provides better scrobble support and “instant” now listening updates on Last.FM. The current Last.FM […]