Window-List Application Indicator
Some people love Unity, others hate it. Personally I’m in the lovers camp, but one thing that I do miss at times is having a list of all current open windows available to me. I know that you hav... »
How Much Do We Rely On ‘The Cloud’?
I was recently having a conversation with a work colleague about cloud storage, he uses Dropbox and I use Ubuntu One. We were discussing the differences between the two services and also the advantage... »
Ubuntu Tweak 0.7.2 Released
The newest version of the brilliant Ubuntu Tweak has been released. For those of you that don’t know, Ubuntu Tweak is an extremely powerful system utility that can be used to change many things ... »
Google Tablet On It’s Way
Today in the internet blogosphere, an Asus employee ‘let slip’ that they were in the process of making an official Google Nexus Tablet. According to this employee, the tablet will make an ... »
Speed Up Ubuntu With Preload
What is Preload? This is what most of you might be asking. Well my fellow Ubuntuers, Preload is an ‘Adaptive readahead daemon’. In English this basically means that Preloaded sits in the b... »
How To Correctly Partition Ubuntu
Following on from my recent article about Linux File System defragmentation, people have asked me how to correctly partition their machines to run Ubuntu. In particular, to do things like dual boot wi... »
Ubuntu 12.10 Alpha 1 Released
It’s seems not so long ago that we were all celebrating the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but straight away the Ubuntu development team begun work on the next release -Ubuntu 12.10 ‘Quantal... »
How To Secure Your Online Passwords
I’m sure most of you have heard about the professional networking site, LinkedIn being hacked today were over 6,000,000 passwords have been taken…apparently. Now, first of all, it’s ... »
Turn Anything Into A Controller With MaKey
This ‘device’ is a really cool piece of kit. It enables you to literally turn anything into an input interface for a computer. Here is some information taken directly from their KickStarte... »
Why Linux Doesn’t Need Defragmenting
If you’re a Linux user, you’ve probably heard that you don’t need to defragment your Linux partitions. You’ll also notice that Linux distributions don’t come with disk defragmenting utilitie... »