The developers behind puzzle game Bobby have made the title free to download and play. Whilst the game is devilishly simple in theory – you, as a ket-pack powered hero called Bobby, have to knock bouncing balls into the spiralling vortex – it’s a lot (read: much) harder in practice. The ball-bouncing game features over [...]
Remember that rather handy YouTube Unity lens we covered a few days back? Well it’s just gotten better! What is the YouTube Lens? The Lens and Scope set lets you browse and search YouTube’s millions of videos without leaving the Ubuntu desktop or having to open a browser. You can manually refine video results using the available [...]
Chances are you’ve heard of music streaming service Spotify. With 15 million tracks available to listen to whenever you want, support for the playback of ‘local’ files, and, depending on your Spotify subscription, caching of your favourite tracks and albums for offline play, Spotify is a music lovers dream. Spotify for Linux supports all Spotify accounts: Spotify [...]
Floors covered in plastic snow, shoppers panicking, and collective waistlines slowly starting to expand: Yes, it’s Xmas. With December now in full swing it’s nice to see Ubuntu partaking in the festive mood by way of some natty new promotions in the Canonical Store. 15% Off Hoodies Canonical have discounted their mens and ladies Ubuntu hoodies [...]
If you have an aspiration to becoming a Linux power-user then nabbing a copy of the Debian Administrators handbook isn’t a bad way to go about it. To whet your appetites a free chapter has been released online which covers a multitude of APT related subjects, tools and configuration. With this you can learn more about using [...]
I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again: I love the Vancouver LoCo team. Always using creative flair in their promotion of Ubuntu, the Vancouver team has today announced the release of a downloadable guide to using the Ubuntu Software Center. The guide uses plenty of screenshots to illustrate instructions and ideas, and by using accessible language ensures that [...]
