June 4, 2011
Add new functionality to your Ubuntu panel. Whether you want to see the weather at a glance, disable your touchpad or manage your clipboard, indicator applets are what you’re looking for. As of Ubuntu 11.04, they have replaced the old system tray completely, so it’s worth knowing how to find more. Among the many changes in Ubuntu’s new Unity interface is the replacement of the system tray with indicator applets.
June 2, 2011
Screen space is always a hot topic for the designers of a web browser. In fact, some users consider screen space as valuable as gold itself. Hiding parts of Firefox temporarily is a hard task to accomplish without the help of an addon. Thankfully there are now two new addons from the Mozilla Prospector project that accomplish this as well as extend the functionality of the Awesome Bar.
June 1, 2011
Customize Ubuntu’s new Unity desktop, all from an easy-to-use interface. Confity allows you to re-enable the Ubuntu system tray, resize or hide Ubuntu’s dock and remove the Fisher-Price color scheme. Unity is brand new, and reaction to it has been mixed. Love it or hate it, however, most people agree that it could be a lot easier to customize. Confity makes it possible for the average user to quickly change settings.
May 30, 2011
There aren’t exactly a bazillion different customization options for just about anything, as GNOME 3/Shell is still relatively new. If you’re one of those people who can’t stand GNOME 3 as long as you cannot change a few more things than are allowed by default, here’s something that will make you think twice.
May 28, 2011
Quickly browse the latest news from Reddit, that particular book you’re looking for or answers to your Ubuntu problems. Ubuntu’s new Unity interface features Lenses, which can put a variety of different searches just a quick click or a keyboard shortcut away. The “Lens” concept is new to Ubuntu’s Unity interface. By default Ubuntu includes two lenses, found in the launcher: one for applications and another for programs.
May 25, 2011
Scouring for new desktop wallpapers is usually fun, but it can also be time-consuming and tedious. Pulse is a background rotator that happens to be open-source, and is very simple to use. Available for Windows, this program simply sits in the system tray once you run the executable and changes your desktop wallpaper in the time interval that you specify.
May 23, 2011
There are a quite a few ways you can adjust your desktop’s appearance depending on your needs. From any easy way to change sidebar icons to automatically changing your wallpaper image, these apps make it more than easy to get it just the way you want, practically at the click of a button.
May 23, 2011
As far as I know myself, there have been plenty of times where a virtual keyboard would have been extremely helpful. For example, it is sometimes recommended to use a virtual keyboard when typing in a password for an important website like a bank or Lastpass in order to eliminate the chances of keylogging software [...]
May 19, 2011
There are a lot of advantages and disadvantages that each operating system has. One has the most compatibility with current software, one has the most polish, and one has both but isn’t as supported. This is especially true for systems like Ubuntu. Let’s say that you are a Windows user because all of your programs work with it, but you like how the new release of Ubuntu looks. What can you do about that?
May 17, 2011
The Windows 7 taskbar is quite swanky looking, but it also packs a wallop in terms of functionality. Sure, anyone can activate an application by clicking its icon. But do you know what happens when you middle-click? Did you know there’s a way to run an application as an Administrator right from its taskbar icon? Read on to see how!
