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 [...]
A new release of user-friendly graphics application ‘Pinta’ has been made available for download. Version 1.1 of the paint.NET inspired app sees many new features and fixes added. Amongst them are: – New ‘image pad’ for easier image selection Ability to resize a selection Confirmation to enlarge the canvas when a larger image is pasted ‘Save’ [...]
As the momentum behind Google+ continues to gather pace its users are longing for desktop integration. To help tide us over until Google release official Google+ tools for developers to play with reader Tom LeJeune has added ‘drag n’ drop’ Picasa image uploading to the Google+ Unity Launcher Quicklist we featured recently. If it sounds like something you’d [...]
The first screenshot of ‘Steam’ like indie game distribution service ‘Desura’ for Linux has been released. Admittedly the dialog picture below won’t excite everyone, but it does show that progress on the Linux port of the incredibly popular service is coming along nicely. The developers’ caption accompanying the image reads: – “Exciting stuff… but a [...]
A 64bit build of Lubuntu 11.04 has been made available for download. Created by Kendall Weaver of ‘Peppermint OS’ and posted to the Lubuntu mailing list, the build is said to be ‘identical to the [32 bit] version save one xorg package that isn’t available in …64 bit.” Weaver goes on to say: – “…everything [...]
A 64bit build of Lubuntu 11.04 has been made available for download. Created by Kendall Weaver of ‘Peppermint OS’ and posted to the Lubuntu mailing list, the build is said to be ‘identical to the [32 bit] version save one xorg package that isn’t available in …64 bit.” Weaver goes on to say: – “…everything [...]
