There is no doubt that open source software developers have a sense of humour, which trickles all the way through an open source application. One would be amazed at the developer comments found in open source software code. Unknown and undocumented, many open source application have ’secrets’ often humorous and fun secrets that not many are aware of. read more… »
Open Source Software’s Secret Side
Ubuntu Ditches the Brown in Favour of Light
Following our recent post regarding Ubuntu’s identity overhaul. It seems as though the masses are rejoicing at the ‘dropping of the brown’. For years Ubuntu held a Unique, and often contested, colour space, as no other distribution ever has made so much use of the colour brown. However it is evident from the masses of forum and blog posts that the general Ubuntu user does not appreciate the brown default interface presented by Ubuntu. read more… »
46 Firefox Features You Might Not Know About
Firefox, an open source application that needs no introduction. A browser that has succesfully been eating away it it’s competitors market share since the early parts of the decade. Firefox with it’s theming and extenibility is an incredibly adaptible and customizable browser. As of version 3 a lot of work has gone into a set of new features, mainly for HTML 5 and CSS 3. read more… »
Death to IE6, No More Google Support
Internet Explorer 6, the thorn in the side of many web developers and designers, through its rampant internet standards defiant rendering. Many developers will agree that the elimination of this decade old browser will most defiantly be a good thing. Internet Explore 6 support was dropped by Google as of 1 March, meaning that Google docs, Google Apps, Gmail and all other Google services will no longer support the ageing browser in an effort to introduce new features to these services. read more… »
The Inevitable Firefox vs Chrome debate
With the Chrome browser gaining market share, with it’s innovative feature set and interface, it is heating up competition for the open source giant, Firefox. Firefox, initially paved the way for an alternative browser lifestyle that many internet surfers enjoy today. It’s quite easily filled a need that Internet Explorer couldn’t, mainly being security and innovative ergonomics. read more… »
Useful Photo Orientated Chrome Extensions
With Chrome recently fully supporting third party extensions the flood gates are open to millions of developers around the world to build useful and innovative extensions that both enhance or improve online browsing with Google’s Chrome browser. A large part of Firefox’s awesome success is owed to extensibility, it would seem only natural that the Chrome which has proven to be an incredibly innovative browser would follow. read more… »
Run Firefox 3.6 From Your Flash Drive
Firefox 3.6 portable is a useful web browsing application as it runs completely and portably from your flash drive, saving its usage data and settings along side itself on your flash drive. Perfect for the traveller or internet cafe user, as this allows you to take your own browsing experience, along with you bookmarks and settings anywhere. read more… »
Moovida – A Polished Media Centre
Moovida, a polished media centre application for the Windows or Linux desktop. Formally known as Elisa, Moovida is a powerful and user friendly Media Centre, which includes many useful features such as internet streaming videos, music and movie libraries and automatic media tagging, thus keeping your collection sorted and correctly labelled. Further more Moovida has been optimized for HDTV formats enabling the playback of movies and other media in HD quality. read more… »
PiTiVi To Be Included In Ubuntu 10.04
Speculations were recently confirmed that the open source video editing package PiTiVi will be included in the upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 as a default application.
Ubuntu 10.04 will bring many changes, including quite a shake up in the selection of default applications.
How To Install Global Menu on Ubuntu
Global Menu is an application for linux that emulates the Mac OSX menu in the top panel. A global menu is handy in saving horizontal screen space and utilizaing otherwise wasted space on the top Gnome panel.This works with all GTK application, therefore it won’t work with KDE based applications, Firefox, and Open Office. read more… »
Creating A seperate Home Partition In Ubuntu
Running your Ubuntu installation with a separate home partition has many benefits, mainly being easier distribution upgrade (which is every six months) which enables you to upgrade the operating system in isolation, leaving your home folder along with all your documents untouched. The process of creating a separate home partition is slightly tricky but not at all impossible
Exciting Times For 2010
2010 sure seems to be an exciting year in terms of technology. With an array of predicted and planned new technology releases amidst an economic upturn this year will surely set the stage for brilliant innovation and development. According to leading news sources 2010 is expected to dramatically influence the way we use the internet along with how our devices will interconnect, merge and improve.
A look at the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 aka Lucid Lynx
Merely 2 months after Ubuntu’s recent Karmic release, developers have already started focusing their efforts on the next release of the this popular Linux distribution. The next version of Ubuntu is planned to be LTE (long term release), meaning that support for it is 5 years as apposed to the standard 3 year support cycle. Having that in mind the release will probably focus more on stability than the introduction of bleeding edge features.
AWN – The Almost Forgotten Linux Dock
AWN was one of the first docks I tried on Linux, I then moved to Cairo and then onto Docky. Back then in terms of functionality Cairo and Docky were more featureful, however I always missed AWN for its reliability and aesthetic interface. AWN 4.0 beta is available for download and from what the beta holds it seems like this dock is about to reclaim it’s place in the land docks it once held.
