Get Faenza and Ubuntu Icons For Windows 7

You can now get a feel of Ubuntu on your Windows 7 desktop with fan made Faenza and Ubuntu icon packs for Windows 7. These icon packs look really good on Windows 7 and give a native feel specially if you dual boot.

Excellent Youtube Channel Covering Linux Gaming Videos

Linux Gaming by Jake Ward is an awesome Youtube Channel that covers lots of native Linux as well as Windows games that runs perfectly under Wine. The channel neatly categorises all the videos in simple playlists for easy access like native Linux games, free games, Windows games, must have games etc.

Set Any Animated Screensaver as Your Desktop Background

Anibg is simple application that allows you to set any of your screensaver as desktop wallpaper. The application is a frontend for Shantz-XWinWrap and uses XScreenSaver.

Ubuntu 11.04 Will Allow Sponsoring Software Projects, A New Icon Theme on the Lines

Lots of changes have been announced for Ubuntu 11.04 in the keynote by Mark Shuttleworth  at Ubuntu Developer Summit, the most exciting one is probably announcing of Unity as default desktop environment. There are few other things that were announced:

Unity to Drop Mutter in Favor of Compiz

In our post earlier today, we mentioned that Unity will be the default desktop environment for Ubuntu 11.04. Unity which used Mutter as base for window management until now will use Compiz from 11.04 onwards. 

Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' Will Have Unity as Default Desktop Environment

New Elementary Theme Released with Dark Panels

Elementary Theme has hit version 2.0 that brings dark panels and menus and new breadcrumbs among other new features and fixes.

New Steel Storm Patch Brings Improved Gamepad Support and New Difficulty Modes

Steel Storm is a 3D top down shooter in which you control a special hover-tank with an aim to eliminate hordes of enemies. We covered the game in our post few days back, that you can read from here

Simple Command Line Utility to Upload and Download files from Megaupload and Rapidshare

Plowshare is a simple command line utility to upload and download files from file hosting services like megaupload and rapidshare, that supports free as well as premium accounts. The utility is quite fast and it's quite easy to download a file if you know the url. 

Naev: Space Trading and Combat Game Similar to Escape Velocity with RPG Elements

Naev is a 2D space trading and combat game similar to Escape Velocity, many of you may have played before. Escape Velocity which have a huge fan following, inspired many games and NAEV is one of them. A note about the game from official page:

Impressive Multi Touch Demo on Unity - The New Ubuntu Netbook Interface

Canonical blog just posted a new video showing uTouch in action on a touch enabled device with Unity, the new Ubuntu netbook interface. Watch the amazing video:

How To Find Servers and Hundreds of Online Players for Popular Linux FPS Game Urban Terror

Urban Terror is one of the most popular Linux multi-player first person shooter (FPS) game played by hundreds of players daily. The cross-platform game that runs on Windows and Mac as well comes with many multiplayer game modes like team survivor, team deathmatch, capture the flag, capture and hold etc.

Script to Download All Videos from a Youtube User and Make a DVD

Dvdtube is a python script to download all videos from a youtube user/channel and make a DVD from it. The script is quite easy to use with simple commands for specifying various parameters like the format of DVD or displaying the list of the urls of the videos uploaded by the user.

OSD Lyrics PPA Updated with Ubuntu 10.10 Packages

Popular lyrics display utility OSD Lyrics has been updated with packages for Ubuntu 10.10. 

Minitube 1.2 Released With Support for Video Downloads

Minitube desktop client for Youtube, got a new release that brings support for downloading videos. The feature was much requested by the users and the developers did not disappoint them. For those who don't know, a small note about it from the website:

GetDeb and PlayDeb Updated With Ubuntu 10.10 Packages

GetDeb and PlayDeb repositories that hosts many applications and games not included in official repositories and updated versions of many packages, has been updated with packages for Ubuntu 10.10. You can now add these sources to your list.

Add GetDeb repository from here

Add PlayDeb repository from here

Faenza Cupertino Icons Ported to KDE and The Plasma Desktop Just Looks Stunning

Faenza Cupertino icon theme, a blue flavor of popular icon theme Faenza has been ported to KDE thanks to TheDeviantMars and the Plasma Desktop just looks amazing. The icon theme seem to blend well with blue KDE theme. Have a look yourself.

Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.7 Released with New Ubuntu 10.10 PPAs

Ubuntu Tweak developer TualatriX announced today a new version - 0.5.7 as a gift to the Ubuntu 10.10 users on his blog. The new version comes with lots of bug fixes and updated PPAs for many applications so that Maverick users can have one-click install of their favorite apps.

Things To Do After the New Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' Installation

Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" been released and many people will be eager to grab a copy and install it or upgrade from previous versions of Ubuntu. There are lots of things that you can do that includes customizing and optimizing it to the degree that it is just perfect for your needs. 

Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' Released, Full Review With Screenshots and Videos

Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' has been released few minutes back as part of 6 months release cycle and it is the first release that follows Ubuntu 10.04 'Lucid Lynx' Long Term Support (LTS).

So what is there in the review? We did a detailed review of Ubuntu 10.10 RC just 10 days back that incorporates pretty much everything that is new to Ubuntu 10.10 and there has been only bug fixes after that. The post is quite similar to the review with some of the things I missed with more screenshots and videos. A look at the new features:

Key-Mon Shows Live Keyboard and Mouse Strokes for Teaching and Screencasts

Key-Mon is a small but handy application for Ubuntu that shows keypresses and mouse clicks in real time while you do your work. The application can be useful for teaching or making screencats. 

GMapCatcher, An Offline Google and OpenStreet Maps Viewer

GMapCatcher is an offline map viewer utility that allows users to view maps without a need of Internet connection once they are loaded. The application supports many different services:

Video Calls using HTML5, WebKit GTK+ and Linux

HTML5, as many of us know allows us to view audio and video in web browser itself without need of using third party resources like Flash. Further, it also allows us to use microphones and cameras giving us the ability to conduct a video conference or video call using a simple web browser only.

FreetuxTV Lets You Watch and Record Live TV Shows on Linux

FreetuxTV is a TV player for Linux that lets you watch free Web TV Channels and listen to Radio. The application that runs on VLC as backend comes with lots of pre-added channels for many languages. 

Ubuntu 10.10 CDs Available Now for Pre-Order

Ubuntu 10.10 CDs are available now for pre-order through Shipit. The preferred method is to download the image from the Ubuntu website but people who are unable to download the latest version due to resource constraints, can order the CDs.

New Chromium Labs Feature Provides Protection Against XSS Attacks?

Just going through the about:labs page in Chromium today, I found a new feature that instantly reminded me of Twitter exploit few days back where my tweets were retweeted automatically by some guy name Matsta. Many Twitter users became victim of this Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Attack.

Addictive Linux Game 'Steel Storm' Released

Arcade shooter game Steel Storm Episode 1 version 1.0 is released which was only available as beta until now. The game is quite addictive with fast paced action that wants you to annihilate hordes of enemies . Episode 1 is available as free download for Linux, Mac and Windows users.

Ubuntu Video Tutorials: Website Dedicated To Provide Video Tutorials to Ubuntu Users

Ubuntu Video Tutorials  is a website that is dedicated to provide useful video tutorials on wide range of topics related to Ubuntu. I wanted to write about the website for some time but somehow I always forgot about it.