Google Picasa 3.8 was released yesterday to much online fanfare. A bunch of neat new features landed including: – Edit photos in Picnik directly from Picasa 3.8 Batch upload Photo properties and the show stealing […]
How does the thought of 211 completely free wine-compatible games available in one download, complete with slick launcher and per-game info, sound to you? Indulgent? Maybe. Worth downloading? Hell yes. Mega Games Pack The bundle […]
Wine 1.2 stable has finally been released today after more than two years of development. The release sees support for 64bit applications, new Tango-based icons (props to Joel Holdsworth who helped lead the work on […]
Y’know, now that Windows executables look all fancy with the latest Wine – making use of the inbuilt application icons – I can’t help but think that they make Ubuntu look worse. Why? Here goes… […]
Apple have just launched version 5 of their flagship web browser Safari for Windows and Mac. Linux users who, for some reason or another, feel left out and want to see what the fuss is about will […]
As part of this years Doctor Who series the BBC are launching a set of 4 free fully interactive downloadable adventure games (referred to as ‘episodes’) for UK viewers (and those who like proxies). The […]
Following yesterday’s post on the facelift Wine has received for its next major release, I started to wonder how many of you use Wine. So — here’s a snap poll for no reason other than […]
As the Wine project gears up for the next major release due in June, work on giving the application a graphical face-lift is drawing to a conclusion. Joel Holdsworth, who has lead the work on […]
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 […]
PlayOnLinux is a WINE ‘front end’ that allows easy installation of software designed to run on Windows, but in Linux! Unlike other WINE installation software – such as CrossOver – PlayOnLinux is entirely free, and […]
WINE has supported font smoothing sine version 1.1.12, however this feature remains disabled by default resulting in rather ugly looking fonts in apps running under WINE. Before: After: To enable font (including font subpixel) […]
WINE – love it or loathe it you probably have it installed for one reason or another (‘must have’ Windows application or because of Google Picasa etc). It also tends to look butt ugly, so […]