It’s somewhat apt that Ubuntu’s ‘Lenses’ feature has brought Unity into clearer focus for many of its initial critics. 

Mounting disc image files (.iso, .img, .dmg, etc) in Ubuntu  isn’t hard. There are a number of applications available designed to carry out the task.

But Mounty, a system tray applet, is probably the easiest of them.

Just when I thought Ubuntu developers were going to take a break from reinventing the user interface to focus on other pursuits, such as Ubuntu TV, Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced a new endeavor, the

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If you’ve upgraded Unity in Precise so you can play with Ubuntu’s new ‘HUD’ feature then you also have another slick new update ready and waiting to be checked out…

Unity Home Lens has received a major change in Precise. All the shortcuts with big icons have been dropped and home lens now shows info about recently used apps, files and downloads.




Home Lens in Oneiric:

A handful of new configuration options have landed in the Ubuntu 12.04 ‘User Interface’ settings pane.

Nuvola Player is so unlike any of the music players for Linux we have featured here so far. What Nuvola Player does is, it runs web interface of cloud music service in its own window and provides deep integration with the Linux desktop (system tray, Ubuntu sound menu, dock menu and notifications).

Quick update: the latest TeamViewer 7 for Linux* (application for remote control and desktop sharing) has finally been released today, after being in beta for over a month.

Naval strategy game Oilrush has finally washed up on the welcoming beach of release-land. 

It’s everybody’s second-most favourite time of the release again. No, not the actual release, but it’s Ubuntu Developer Week!

Open Source Linux based gaming handled and mini-laptop Pandora has created lots of buzz when it was revealed 4 years back.

Indie game studio Ludosity has released a new trailer of their upcoming game 'Lttle Dew'.

We all have dirty secrets. Mine is this: Although I run Linux exclusively on all of my computers, I still use Microsoft Office. Why?