Anyone who uses Gnome 3 or has any kind of vested interested in the Open Source community will know that the Gnome 3.6 update is well under way. The new version will bring a host of new features and an updated user interface. But today I learnt about an interesting new feature – the new ‘App Centre’. The new Gnome ‘App Centre’ will sit on top of gnome-packagekit wh... »
The newest version of the brilliant Ubuntu Tweak has been released. For those of you that don’t know, Ubuntu Tweak is an extremely powerful system utility that can be used to change many things within Ubuntu and Unity – such as panel & launcher opacity, launcher icon size, window behaviour and much more. Last nights release of 0.7.2 doesn’t really mark much in the way of user... »
Following on from my recent article about Linux File System defragmentation, people have asked me how to correctly partition their machines to run Ubuntu. In particular, to do things like dual boot with Windows and other Linux Distributions. So I thought I would write a quick article on how to do it for you guys. In the examples below I will be partitioning a 100GB example Hard Disk Drive (HDD) in... »
It’s seems not so long ago that we were all celebrating the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but straight away the Ubuntu development team begun work on the next release -Ubuntu 12.10 ‘Quantal Quetzal’. Yesterday the fruits of their labour started to come to fruition with the release of Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 1. Now, before you get too excited and start burning ISO’s – there ... »
People who use Google’s social network, Google+ or any Google products like Gmail, Google Docs or Google Drive will recognise the new Google interface that consists of a cool grey colour with contrasting buttons of red and blue. It’s a really modern, clean look – and now it has appeared in Gnome-Shell. How To Use The Theme The theme isn’t the easiest to apply, but it does l... »
If you’re anything like me then you will trawl the vast amount of blogs and news sites on the Internet looking for interesting things to read about. I do this so much that my girlfriend has actually made her own verb for this action. She calls it ‘Ubuntuing’, phrases like “Are you Ubuntuing again?” and “Turn that bloody laptop off and stop Ubuntuing!” are ... »
I recently wrote about my thoughts on whether or not Windows 8 will catch on based on the customer preview that Microsoft released about 6 months ago. Sine then, Microsoft have had another 6 months to work on Windows 8 and also a lot of customer feedback. So let’s see if my opinion has changed. Remember, this is a ‘Release Preview’ so if the Windows 7 release preview is anythi... »
For those that don’t know, Linux Mint is a popular Ubuntu derivative. I recently wrote a review of their latest release, ‘Linux Mint 13 Maya’. It seems that Clem & Co are dipping their toes into the hardware market, with the imminent release of the ‘Mint Mini PC’ (that’s probably not it’s official name – just one I gave it) as little as a week aw... »