Archive for 'Ubuntu' Category
It’s the little things that often matter: ‘Organize desktop by name’
I don’t need to pad this post out: In Ubuntu 10.10 you can ‘organize desktop by name’. This replaces the previous wording of ‘clean up by name’ which, lets be fair, was a piece of potentially confusing terminology.
We’ll all agree that …
"Where is it?" – Ubuntu 10.10 Software Centre now tells you where to find your newly installed app
It is often the little things that have the greatest impact and, as such, consider me thrilled to finally see the ‘Where is it?’ feature implemented into the Ubuntu Software Centre/Center for Ubuntu 10.10.
What is it?
A massive usability pro…
Lauf – the lightest launcher ever
Back in early July we featured ‘Alawalk’ – a lightweight launcher for the resource conscious. It was lean, mean and did its job. If you liked Alawalk but found the 72KiB RAm usage a bit too steep then say hello to the new boy in town: ’Lauf’. …
What are your must have applications?
I have a problem. I’ll be the first to confess. It’s tearing me apart on the inside. Not a day goes by without me thinking about it, always at the back of my mind, in the confines of my subconscious taunting and laughing at me – daring me to try s…
Buzzbird: a XUL-based desktop twitter client for ubuntu
Buzzbird is totally free (as in beer and freedom). There are no advertisements, and it is completely open-source. Home: http://getbuzzbird.com/bb/
Ubuntu Control Centre 0.5 brings GPU switching to Linux
The latest version of UCC – a third-party Ubuntu Control Centre – has been been released. The update sees the usual smattering of bug fixes, stability refinements but, for feature fans, a notable new addition too… A new VGA switching element lets users switch between low performance graphics and high performance graphics using the‘vga-switchero’module present [...]
Zaz ：Zuma Like Game For Ubuntu
Zaz is a multi-platform (Windows and Linux) arcade action puzzle game where the objective is to get rid of all incoming balls by rearranging their order. The idea of the game is loosely based on games like Luxor, Zuma and Puzzle Bobble. Zaz 0.8.0 was released a few days ago, the new version extending the [...]
Histwi: backup your tweets and manage twitter account on ubuntu
Backing up your tweets, managing your account and searching tweet based on strict criteria direct from the desktop has been made easy with Histwi by OriginalCoding. Histwi is linux desktop program for Twitter account management. Project URL: http://originalcoding.com/histwi/ Histwi features: Download and save all your Tweets to Database. View and export all saved tweets to [...]
Portable Linux Apps – Provide portable apps on any Linux distribution
The Portable Linux Apps project brings the ideal of “1 app, 1 file” to Linux. Applications are able to run on all major distributions irrespective of their packaging systems – everything the application needs to run is packaged up inside of it. There are no folders to extract, dependencies to install or commands to enter: [...]
Resize and rotate images easily with Gnome in Ubuntu
Today I wanted to post some pictures to a site but to upload them I needed them to be considerably smaller. I know lots of ways to resize images in Linux but I needed an easy way to resize them. In Windows, I am used to using theImage Resizer Power Toy. (Why is that not [...]
Easily Create a multiboot usb stick on Ubuntu
Ever wanted to try out lots of different LiveCD’s on your thumb drive without the hassle of installing them one at a time? Say hello to MultiBoot LiveUSB which does just that. You just drag and drop as many .iso files as your drive can handle onto the application window and you’re done! Upon booting [...]
Automatically Delete Files older than N days From Trash using Autotrash on ubuntu
Autotrash is a simple Python script comes with Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat which will purge files from your trash when they become older than a given days,purge older files to ensure a specific amount of disk space is free,etc.It uses the FreeDesktop.org Trash Info files included in the new GNOME system to find the correct [...]
Spotify ports its music streamer to Linux
Spotify is previewing a Linux version of its popular music-streaming service. According to a blog post from Andres Sehr, Spotify’s global community manager, the company’s developers built this Linux incarnation for selfish reasons – at least in part – piecing it together during hack days and late-night coding sessions. “A lot of our developers are [...]
Netspeed Applet to Monitor Net Traffic 0.16 On Ubuntu
Netspeed is just a little GNOME-applet that shows how much traffic occurs on a specified network device (for example eth0). You get the best impression of it, if you look at the screenshots below. URL : http://projects.gnome.org/netspeed// news version 0.16: * Take maximum quality into account of quality calculation, if this can be queried from [...]
Auto-update to the latest Dropbox Experimental builds with dbupdater
DropBox users who like to live on the bleeding edge using the latest experimental builds with thelatest features probably find the checking, downloading and installation of every new build a little bit of a chore. Cue Dusten Barker and his super ace automatic script which automates the entire process for you – checking, downloading correct [...]
LuckyBackup: a powerful, fast and reliable backup & sync tool for linux
LuckyBackup is an application that backs-up and/or synchronizes any directories with the power of rsync. Its main features are: backup, safety, synchronization, exclude/only include options, allows custom rsync options, remote connections, restore and dry-run operations, scheduling, profiles and command line mode. It is simple to use, fast (transfers over only changes made and not all [...]
Liferea RSS Feed Reader 1.6.4 (Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid)
Linux Feed Reader, better known as Liferea is an RSS feed reader developed for the Gnome Desktop Environment. Liferea is able to read feeds in various formats, among which RDF / RSS, CDF, Atom / Echo / PIE 0.2, OPML 1.0 and OCS 0.4. The interface is very clean and intuitive and allows us to [...]
Mediadownloader easily download our Photos and Videos Favorites 1.3.1
Mediadownloader (Former Google Image Downloader) is a simple application to search and download images from Google without using our browser. Among the various characteristics of the application are the number of results the search criteria (size, color or b / w, content and license) also allows viewing in Cooliris style and the ability to download [...]
Ailurus – A Useful Ubuntu Tweak Alternative For Beginners
Ailurus is cross-Linux-distribution GPL software, which aims at making Linux easier to use for beginners. Rather than a Ubuntu Tweak alternative, Ailurus is the kind of app you can use along Ubuntu Tweak. Ailurus is available for Ubuntu, Fedora and Mint while Ubuntu Tweak is a dedicated Ubuntu only application. Ailurus Features ‘Study Linux’ feature [...]
Get Fast Ubuntu APT source from UbuntuNight
Ubuntu Night is a website by ubuntu fans , that provide top fast mirror for ubuntu. URL : http://ubuntu9.com
