NoteCase Pro is a note-taking and outliner application with a hefty list of features if you venture beyond the free version and buy into the shareware license. Even if you settle for the unregistered lite version, NoteCase Pro is an impressive tool for cataloging your notes and collected information into a hierarchically organized database. NoteCase [...]
Negative publicity around Ubuntu Unity and GNOME Shell is proving to be a real blessing in disguise for a bunch of smaller, lightweight distros like Xubuntu, Lubuntu et al. As much as I like Unity and GNOME Shell, they are not really the ideal choice for under-powered devices like netbooks. So what else is there? [...]
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS “Precise Pangolin” was finally released few weeks ago and it truly is one of the best Ubuntu releases ever. We have been following the release pretty closely and now it’s time for a brief round-up. Here is a quick screenshot tour through every single new feature that was added to latest Ubuntu [...]
Wallpapers for upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin has just been arrived. The collection include a new official default wallpaper plus 14 other exceptionally good community contributed wallpapers as well. To put it lightly, community contributed wallpapers put the default one to shame. By far the best collection of wallpapers for Ubuntu in my opinion. Default [...]
Canonical expects to start rolling out the first phase of Ubuntu’s new heads-up display in the April release of Ubuntu 12.04. But HUD will supplement Unity, Ubuntu’s default desktop interface, rather than fully replace it. The move to radically change the desktop’s default interface is being made out of necessity, according to Canonical’s founder and [...]
I had a less than ideal experience with Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2. But two recent updates have resolved almost all the issues I had with Ubuntu 12.04. A lot of new features and minor UI improvements keeps on coming in. Let’s make of list of them all, shall we? So here is a quick roundup [...]
Many consider XBMC as one the finest, if not the best, media center application out there, which is also open source. Starting from the previous XBMC 10 ‘Dharma’ release, XBMC started supporting add-ons officially which made it super easy to install third-party developed skins and apps for XBMC. Aeon Nox 2.0 was one such long [...]
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