If you use any web-apps or websites in Chrome that provide notification pop-ups on your desktop then you’ll know how out of place they look in Ubuntu. For although Chrome’s notification ‘toasts’ are consistent across all three major operating systems – that is they look and behave the same on Windows, Mac and Linux – they are, unlike, [...]
A minor update to the Spotify Preview for Linux client is available to download. A handful of new features are present in the release, which was originally intended to appear at the same time as the Windows and Mac builds. Sadly, a last-minute build error pushed this back a few days – but kudos for the [...]
It lives! Skype have issued a small bugfix update to the static package of their Linux client. The hotfix patches a ‘serious vulnerability’ with the ‘libpng library’ present in the static package of the VoIP client. The issue does not affect any other versions of Skype 2.2 for Linux (i.e. the version available in the Ubuntu Software Center). What [...]
Ubuntu and free-software was the topic of discussion on Greek TV channel ‘Sunny‘ earlier this morning. Nick Kakouros from Greek technology site osarena.net appeared to talk about open-source software, Linux, Ubuntu and the ‘global scale’ of free software within the context of the economy, government, etc. I don’t speak Greek but if you do, and want to see what was [...]
After Microsoft’s aquisition of Skype – the worlds most popular VoIP application – many users had assumed that it marked the beginning of the end for the clients’ life on Linux. Comments by Microsoft Exec Steve Ballmer on the matter didn’t entirely clarify things, with non-specific wording: “We will continue to support non-Microsoft platforms, because [...]
The makers of Shotwell have launched the first release of a new e-mail client for Linux. Geary 0.1 is described by Yorba as ‘a lightweight email reader for the GNOME desktop’. It supports basic viewing and composing of e-mail, keyboard shortcuts and displays multi-threaded mails in a ‘conversation’ view. Set Up Setting up Geary is [...]
