Popular ‘tips & tricks’ site Lifehacker regularly feature readers’ custom desktops along with a ‘How To’ on creating the same look on your own desktop. Annoyingly for Linux users the majority of desktops featured by Lifehacker tend to be OS X or Windows based. One set-up that always impressed me was ‘Sands of Time’ by [...]
Installing software just got easier: The Linux Deepin Software Center is now available to install in Ubuntu 11.10. The software store is easily the gems in the crown of Ubuntu-based Chinese Linux distribution ‘Linux Deepin’. It sports a clean layout, low-resource usage, and integrates package management features not present in the Ubuntu Software Centre. Until now Ubuntu users wishing [...]
If you’ve downloaded a good-looking GNOME-Shell theme in the past year then there’s a good chance that the following 25-year-old Algerian designer was the hands behind it. Reda Lazri, or 0rax0 as he is better known online, is a prolific designer. GTK, Metacity and GNOME-Shell themes; application icons, wallpapers and a multitude of mock-ups line the walls of [...]
Measuring at less than 100mm wide and 17mm thick with a dinky 3″ screen, the Ben NanoNote might just be the world’s smallest Linux laptop for the traditional definition of the word. While pulling this out in public might get you a few odd looks, the Ben NanoNote actually runs a relatively feature rich piece [...]
Flash-free desktop YouTube player ‘MiniTube’ saw a new release at the weekend. The update, which bumps the app to version 1.7, sees a number of minor new features added. Channel usernames are now ‘clickable’ ‘Manually start playing’ option ‘Stop after this video’ option ‘Float on Top’ option Keyboard shortcuts to view next/previous None of the [...]
