The Ubuntu-powered Vodafone WebBook has been out in South Africa for a few months but little opinion on the device has appeared online. Or so I thought. Having exhausted my own avenues trying to get hold of one of the devices to review for OMG! Ubuntu! I was pointed in the direction of a write-up of the [...]
The fantastic folks over at Spanish blog ‘Ataraeo‘ have put together a nifty a lens for browsing YouTube’s library of videos straight from the Dash. The package, a YouTube ‘Scope’ (the search engine bit) and a Video ‘Lens’ (the interface bit), even comes complete with filters for narrowing down searches by popular YouTube category types. Results can then [...]
Sync your play counts on Last.FM to your Rhythmbox music collection. The following plugin updates Rhythmbox with a track’s playcount from Last.fm. That way, regardless of where or what you scrobble your music from your playcounts in Rhythmbox will remain up-to-date. Below is my library pre-sync: – Then, as I played tracks, the plugin adjusted the [...]
Sam Spilsbury has been the lead of Compiz for as long as I’ve paid attention to it. His blog is one that I follow closely to get a bit of insight into the project. Normally a place of brain dumps, something a bit more… troubling popped up on the twenty-fifth of December – an “Apology.” [...]
It seems that no Linux desktop worth its salt is complete without its own font. GNOME 3 has Cantarell, Unity has ‘Ubuntu‘, and now KDE is getting in on the typographic trend. Meet ‘Oxygen’. ‘for use with KDE’ The Oxygen font ‘is a project designed to produce a ‘..legible font to use within the KDE gui.’ [...]
