DockBarX is an app launcher or switcher that works as a GNOME2 panel applet, Avant Window Navigator applet or as a stand-alone dock. The new DockBarX 0.90.3 has been released come with the stand-alone dock supports applets, included applets, Cardapio menu and also work in MATE Desktop panel applet. With DockBarX, give every appearance of the Windows 7 [...]
The new BeatBox music player released in version 0.7, come with new user interface enhancements and new features. The preferences window has been revamped to include preferences for plugins as well as a more robust UI for general settings. in addition, beatbox 0.7 also introduces plugin support with dedicated category. So, enabling or disabling a specific plugin is [...]
For many years, Thunderbird is my default mail client in Ubuntu. The truth is that I’ve tried other options, which, especially in low resource teams, Thunderbird consumes too, and I’ve tried to find an alternative, but none convince me. For some time, I think Ubuntu in particular lacks a simple email client, while powerful, and with [...]
Manual Book for Ubuntu 12.10 announced by Ubuntu Manual Team. With title “Getting Started with Ubuntu 12.10″ and writen in over 52 languages, including English, French, Deutsch, Chinese, Italian, Finnish, Russian, Spanish, Romanian, Vietnamese, Japanese, Serbian, Catalan or Australian English. It contain about how-tos, guides, basic information about Linux and its components, and everything one [...]
Canonical has made changes to the Official Ubuntu website and now offers a page that asks users to donate funds to contribute financially to the development of the distribution before downloading. The new page-inspired contributions Seen On The Humble Indie Bundle allows users to indicate their preferences on issues they consider most important investment, with categories like ”Ubuntu [...]
The Disc Artwork for Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop and Server has been uploaded to the Ubuntu Wiki and ready to download. Keep in mind that there is only few days left until Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal released. Pre orders are still being taken if you are interested. There no real change from the last few sets [...]
The People music player for GNOME, New Music player Rhythmbox has been updated to version 2.98 and this version includes some new changes as: New Dialogue to import music into the library New search audio metadata, Replacing libmusicbrainz Enhancement of transitions between images of album art Improvements cluebar buttons Nautilus Update notification button when playback changes state [...]
Ubuntu developers have added an interesting option to the login screen of Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal : the ability to log into a remote desktop without having to go to Ubuntu or even add additional programs to this end. This new feature allows, for now, only connections ICA, RDP and VMware View,but is expected to support other remote desktop deployments expand in [...]
The Ubuntu with the messaging menu style for launch has been quite a story. Recall that the messaging menu is the menu messaging application updates reports on email and social networks, and allows changing the status in chat, this last feature added to this menu after it was merged with the user menu showing the name [...]
Ubuntu 12.10 with codename Quantal Quetzal for Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products released in Beta 2. This second beta includes a slightly updated Linux kernel 3.5.4, GNOME package updates 3.5.92 and Unity 6.6 with the new shopping lens and other work. Accessibility support is now also turned on by default. With Ubuntu 12.10, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu [...]
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