Great news for anyone who regularly tweaks Ubuntu, which, let’s face it is most of us. The Unity Tweak Tool has now been added to the 13.04 Raring Ringtail official repositories. What this means is that the Unity Tweak Tool is now available for install direct from the Ubuntu Software Centre. For those that don’t know, The Unity Tweak Tool gives users more granular control so that they ... »
Back in February we showcased some of our favourite entries into the Ubuntu 13.04 Wallpaper competition. Today the guys over at Canonical have announced the winners of the competition and showcased the wallpapers that will be included in 13.04 by default. All-in-all there has been 13 wallpapers that have made it into Ubuntu 13.04, but unfortunately only one of the top picks we had chosen made the ... »
For those that don’t know, Ubuntu GNOME is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that ships with GNOME Shell by default, instead of Unity. The distro also includes other GNOME applications that aren’t available by default in Ubuntu. It was announced today on the Ubuntu Gnome Shell Remix mailing list that as of the 13.04 release, they will receive the new name of Ubuntu GNOME and will be a... »
Yesterday HP yet again dipped their toe into the pond of open source loveliness by launching this rather sexy looking all-in-one device, the HP Pavilion 20-b101ea in the UK (it’s a shame the name isn’t quite as sexy). Historically all-in-one devices such as the HP Pavilion 20-b101ea tend to be quite expensive, but with this little gem costing a mere £349 you have to wonder why it&... »
Back in December 2012, Richard Stallman (RMS) famously wrote a blog post on the Free Software Foundations site titled “Ubuntu Spyware: What to do?“ This “Ubuntu Spyware” that RMS talks about within the article is of course the Unity Amazon Lens. Just in case any of you have been living under a rock for the last few months, the Amazon Lens introduced in Ubuntu 12.10 basicall... »
WordPress is a great way of making amazing websites with relative ease. In my experience of creating WordPress based websites, I’ve always found that selecting the right theme is always the hardest part of making a site – getting the content in is easy, because what’s the point in making a website if you have nothing to say right? So what if you’re an Ubuntu fan like myse... »
As many of you know, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail is just around the corner, and the usual Ubuntu Wallpaper Contest is well on it’s way. For those that don’t know, the Ubuntu Wallpaper Contest allows contributors to submit wallpapers for inclusion in the official Ubuntu 13.04 wallpaper list. The chosen wallpapers will be packaged up along with Ubuntu when it’s released for you to... »
So the wait is over and we finally know what the Ubuntu countdown timer was all about. Ubuntu have announced “Ubuntu for tablets”. Now before you all go rushing out to purchase an Ubuntu tablet and trade in for your Nexus 7 or iPad mini’s, you are going to be sadly disappointed. As of yet there isn’t a device as such, this is simply an announcement to tell us that theyR... »