So, I recently upgraded to latest Firefox (more on that later) and–to cut the chase here–I’m sick of how it continues to blatantly ignoring dark GTK themes. The bookmarking dialog is unreadable, and the “Awesome” bar urls look absolutely horrible (bright blue on gray, anyone?). While Firefox is still technically usable, these issues cause real [...]

Mark Shuttleworth, founder and principal financier of Ubuntu Linux and its parent company, Canonical, has been talking about desktop notifications and how they should work Ubuntu. His vision is an unobtrusive, elegant, and user-friendly system that will let you know when you get a new email, enter a new wi-fi area, etc., and then provide [...]

I love me some Conky–that super versatile, text-based system monitor that can be extended to display just about any information you want, right on your desktop. I came across this screenshot from a featured desktop at Lifehacker, and man, I just love it. Clean, useful, and very pleasing to eye.
The contributor Conky setup uses several [...]

I’ve been getting excited about this latest release of Ubuntu…I know it’s going to sport a bunch of cool productivity enhancers, including tabs in the Nautilus file manager (finally!), useful security features, and the ability to write your entire installation to usb media, creating a custom usb distro.
Well, the reviews have been rolling in, and [...]

Anyone else miss that handy tray applet that Beryl used to have? I mainly used it to turn desktop effects off if I have was having video issues, or if I wanted a bit of a speed boost. Ubuntu tips site Tombuntu highlights an app called Compiz-Switch which has the same functionality. Just install, start, [...]