I have a pretty large collection of wallpapers (and it’s growing all the time), but usually I’m content to just kind of let my desktop stay essentially the same for a few weeks, and then change it manually as I see fit. Nevertheless I thought it’d be cool to try out a little app I’ve [...]

I’ve been using Epiphany a lot lately, and one of the main issues I’ve experienced has been using the Amazon Mp3 Downloader application. Unfortunately, there’s no built-in setting to tell Epiphany how to handle the AMZ file format, so you’re forced to download the file and then open it manually in the Amazon MP3 Downloader. [...]

I really appreciate the fact that Ubuntu comes ready to use in multiple languages; the fact that Ubuntu and Linux in general serve an international community is one of my favorite things about the operating system. That being said, I don’t need a lot of the fonts that come in the basic install of Ubuntu, [...]

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 [...]