Mounting disc image files (.iso, .img, .dmg, etc) in Ubuntu isn’t hard. There are a number of applications available designed to carry out the task. But Mounty, a system tray applet, is probably the easiest of them. Once open Mounty sits in the System Notification area. Clicking on its icon reveals a menu with the following options: Clicking on [...]
It’s somewhat apt that Ubuntu’s ‘Lenses’ feature has brought Unity into clearer focus for many of its initial critics. The search-orientated display windows – called ‘Lenses’ – make finding specific files, apps or information easy to do thanks to their tuned ‘search backends’ – called Scopes’. Below are 10 of the best Lenses and Scopes available [...]
It’s everybody’s second-most favourite time of the release again. No, not the actual release, but it’s Ubuntu Developer Week! Join us from Tuesday, 31st January 2012 to Thursday, 2nd February 2012 for three action-packed days full of tutorial and hands-on session all around Ubuntu development. We spared no efforts to bring you a very diverse [...]
It’s everybody’s second-most favourite time of the release again. No, not the actual release, but it’s Ubuntu Developer Week! Join us from Tuesday, 31st January 2012 to Thursday, 2nd February 2012 for three action-packed days full of tutorial and hands-on session all around Ubuntu development. We spared no efforts to bring you a very diverse [...]
The headline to this article might sound inflammatory but it’s a question currently being debated on the Ubuntu Desktop mailing list. Ubuntu’s Jorge Castro makes the case for ‘jettisoning’ the tool from the the Ubuntu Universe repositories (i.e. removing it from the Ubuntu Software Centre): “With tools like MyUnity now in universe, and …basic configuration in the [...]
