March 29, 2012
Today’s featured theme is written by popular theme artist half-left, in a theme titled “Alternative”. This theme is meant to be a sleek, compact theme that still keeps a few aspects of the default theme shipped with Gnome Shell. It’s also optimized for lower resolutions, so it’s a perfect theme for use on your netbook or other small-screen device.
March 28, 2012
Take Mac-style screenshots on your Linux computer. Pick the part of the screen you want a screenshot of and voila! You’ve got your exact selection, meaning you don’t need to edit an oversized picture. It’s called Deepin Screenshot tool, and it’s a shame Ubuntu and other Linux distributions don’t have it by default.
March 27, 2012
The mature and feature-rich free media centre solution XBMC has just been updated to version 11. Codenamed “Eden”, the latest version builds on the already strong feature set of XBMC 10 “Dharma” with a vastly improved default skin, the ability to roll back add-ons to previous versions and a new XBMC Linux distribution, XBMCbuntu. There [...]
March 24, 2012
During recent years, many people have touted the ease of use that comes with Linux Mint compared to virtually all other distributions. As such, Linux Mint is now one of the most popular distributions out there, and almost as popular (or in some terms more popular) than Ubuntu. With so many users, the Mint developers have been experimenting with a version of Linux Mint based on Debian direct.
March 23, 2012
The award winning open source audio recording and editing program, Audacity, which runs on Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux and other operating systems, was released last week with a 2.0 upgrade. It includes several bug fixes, interface changes, and new feature enhancements. Audacity, developed by a group of volunteers and distributed under General Public [...]
March 15, 2012
Ubuntu has just recently announced their Beta 1 of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, set to be released on April 26th. With this new release, there are some pretty interesting changes coming up in all kinds of different corners. Since there’s a lot of cover, let’s get started.
March 8, 2012
Click one button in the tray and see what you need to do today. Calendar Indicator gives you quick access to your upcoming Google Calendar appointments, and doesn’t rely on any other software to get that information. This means you don’t need Evolution to see your appointments in the tray.
March 6, 2012
Sometimes it’s just not enough to save a website locally from your browser. Sometimes you need a little bit more power. For this, there’s a neat little command line tool known as Wget. Wget is a simple program which is able to download files from the Internet. You may or may not know much about Wget already, but after reading this article you’ll be prepared to use it for all sorts of tricks.
March 3, 2012
Integrate your favorite cloud-based music players with the Linux desktop. Whether you’re a fan of Google Music, Grooveshark, Hype Machine, 8tracks or all four, Nuvola Player makes listening to cloud music in Linux so seamless you’ll forget they’re not desktop players. It lets you elegantly control all four of these online music services from your Unity or Gnome desktop.
March 1, 2012
The popular Linux distribution is fun to mess with and work on, no matter what kind of user you are. However, you may be interested in controlling your system even more to get the absolute most out of it. Terminals have usually been the way to go for things like this, but on Ubuntu you have another choice: Ubuntu Tweak.
