Unity is a fantastic User Interface (UI) that is used by millions of people all over the world, including yours truly. But whilst is doesn’t offer as much customisation as other UI’s like Gnome 2, you still can make Unity look and feel the way you want it to, and that’s where the Unity Tweak Tool comes in. Sure this kind of application isn’t anything new, with alternatives ... »
We recently reported that Steam’s Ubuntu beta has now gone open and all Ubuntu users can now install and enjoy Steam on their favourite open source OS (providing it’s based on Ubuntu). Well, things are looking really good for us Ubuntu users, as Steam recently published their hardware & software survey results and they look great. The results (shown below) show great adoption in th... »
Canonical has had a successful 2012 with the releases of Ubuntu 12.04, 12.10 and recently Ubuntu for Google’s Nexus 7. Now with the new year, Canonical has unveiled it’s new product; Ubuntu for Phones. The Software Ubuntu for Phones defines itself to be used more with gestures rather than relying on buttons and taps to accomplish tasks in a way that is fast and easy. An example of this... »
The founder of the Free Software Foundation has a problem, and it is not the latest version of Windows. No, Richard Stallman is not satisfied with Ubuntu, at the point to discourage Linux users to choose this distribution. What is wrong with Ubuntu? According to Stallman, Ubuntu is guilty of indiscretion of its users by incorporating spyware, which according to him, collects search queries and sen... »
Skype is a great tool that allows friends and family all over the world to speak to each other in a very simple way. For me personally Skype really came into it’s own whilst deployed on operations in Afganistand & Iraq. You see, in the British Army soldiers only get 30 minutes of phone calls per week to their loved ones; which really isn’t a lot when you have a large family and a g... »
UEFI is a topic of hot conversation at the moment with the release of Windows 8 and it’s requirement to have UEFI enabled devices for Microsoft certification. Lucky for me none of my devices are UEFI enabled, well not until today anyway. My main workhorse is a HP Envy Sleekbook 6 and it had to go back to HP to have the keyboard repaired. Today the courier posted my laptop back, I swiftly rep... »
Part of the reason why most of us love Ubuntu is the level of personalisation that you can do with it. There are many thing you can change from themes to wallpapers to icon sets. In this article I’ll be talking about two of my favourite icon sets that I use. They are called Faenza and FS Ubuntu icons. Faenza Icons The Faenza icon set is arguably the most popular icon set that exists for Ubun... »
So it’s finally here. Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal has been released and I’ve been running it since it’s release date on 18th October 2012. In this article I’ll be talking about some of the new features, the performance of Ubuntu 12.10 and also some of the things I do and don’t like about the new release. So why don’t we get started… Performance I have to ... »
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