How to Enable 'Tabbed Options' in Chromium

Chromium has a labs feature through which you can enable 'Tabbed Options' in Ubuntu. Its very easy to do but will require Chromium daily build version.

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Get Hotot , A New Stylish Twitter Client for Ubuntu [From PPA]

Hotot is a new Twitter client that comes with all the basic features a Twitter client has, that is support for status updates, retweets, directs, search etc., plus some really interesting features.  

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OpenShot Video Editor 1.2.2 Released with New Effects, 3D Titles and Netbook Optimizations

OpenShot video editor is one of the best video editor available for Linux platform. The development has been really fast and the video editor has come a long way.

The video editor is developed by Jonathan Thomas. The new version comes with lots of features:

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Update Your Light Themes in Maverick

A third update to light theme has been released. The Changes are:  

Menu item speed-up
Subtle shadow on inactive notebook’s tabs  
White text colour on GtkProgressBar  
Increased visibility of the resize gripper  
Fixed contrast applied to elements in GtkStatusbar  
More compatibility with custom colour specified in Appearance Preferences  
Increased contrast between text and background   
Tweaks to the odd row color inside GtkTreeView        

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'Steadyflow' Download Manager Gets Firefox Support through FlashGot

We recently posted an article about a new download manager in development for Ubuntu - 'Steadyflow'. The development is going on at  fast pace. The download manager have already got Firefox integration through FlashGot.

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Take a Screenshot of Your Favorite App and Get it Featured in Ubuntu Software Centre

Canonical Design Team just came up with new a post urging Ubuntu users to help update screenshots for their favourite applications so that old outdated one can be phased out.

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Meerkat meets Heron: Wallpaper Made by Mixing Ubuntu 10.10 and 8.04 Default Wallpapers

Just said 'wow' when I came across this.

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How to Browse Music Via 'Album Art Display' in Rhythmbox

RhythmArty plugin for Rhythmbox lets you browse your music collection via an 'Album Art Display', one of the things that has been missing from Rhythmbox for a long time.

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New 'Steadyflow' Download Manager for Ubuntu

Steadyflow is a new download manager for Ubuntu that uses a simple 'Transmission' like interface and has a impressive list of features.

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Unity Gets an 'Open This Folder in Nautilus' Button, Access Hidden Files with Ease

Unity is shaping up really nice and becoming more and more user friendly. But one of the main problem I faced while using unity was accessing some files that didn't show up in Unity Dash File Browser. There was no simple way to access hidden files or files that have not been used recently.

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