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… »
Ubuntu Identity Overhaul
A new logo, a new identity. The upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu is set to receive a major identity upgrade, from it’s logo through to its design. “We’re drawn to Light because it denotes both warmth and clarity, and intrigued by the idea that “light” is a good value in software. Good software is “light” in the sense that it uses your resources efficiently, runs quickly, and can easily be reshaped as needed.” explains Mark Shuttle worth who along with a small team of designers who are behind the recent Ubuntu re branding. read more… »
Is Apple out of good ideas?
Patents are very important — they help the small guys with really great ideas protect themselves. They give those people and companies a real chance in a world that’s dominated by large organizations that build their business on stealing great ideas. That said, holding a patent isn’t a sure-fire way to protect yourself, but it certainly helps. Via ZDNet, 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… »
The Google Tablet Concept
Following the recent announcement by Apple to begin manufacturing and selling thier iPad tablet computer, Google decided to release some Google Chrome OS mockups illustrating how the Google tablet would look like, if it were to exist. read more… »
Common Misconceptions about Web Designers
As a web designer, I’m proud to be a part of an Apple-loving, forward thinking, technologically advanced group of people that devour tutorials and web design blogs, hoping to create a stellar design that that gets posted in every CSS gallery out there. Yep, we’re a group of people that works hard, plays hard and strives to meet our deadlines, while learning something new along the way.via Six Revisions, Read more…
Firefox 3.6 – The review
I’ve had Firefox 3.6 installed on my system for a few hours now and I’ve been putting it through its paces, I’m ready to give you my thoughts and feelings on this new release. more…
Gimp 2.8 scheduled to release at the end of 2010
GIMP’s developer, Martin Nordholts aka Enselic, has announced the release of GIMP 2.8 on 27th Dec this year. The schedule is not really fixed, its an estimated release date. This new release promises to have a lot of new features along with the major advantage of a single window mode which has been a long-standing complaint by many users for this great tool. 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.
Easily Funk Up Your Twitter Page
Easily customize your Twitter page, with help from Themeleon, compliments from colourlovers.com. One of the fun things about twitter is the ability to make it yours, by easily customizing your profile page design, from colours to background images. Though the stock background images on Twitter are quite beautiful, they are still generic, and chances are about 500,000 other Twitter users also make use of them. Now if you like many who insist on individuality, then you will understand the importance of creating a unique. personalized Twitter page. read more… »
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… »
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.
