Ubuntu Vibes

Unity to Drop Mutter in Favor of Compiz

Monday, October 25, 2010 | No comments |

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.

11.04, Compiz, Natty Narwhal, Unity

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

Monday, October 25, 2010 | No comments |

11.04, Natty Narwhal, Unity

New Elementary Theme Released with Dark Panels

Saturday, October 23, 2010 | No comments |

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

Customize, Elmentary Theme, Themes

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

Saturday, October 23, 2010 | No comments |

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

Applications, Games, Steel Storm

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

Sunday, October 17, 2010 | No comments |

Plowshare is a simple command line utility to upload and download files from file hosting services.

Applications, Plowshare

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

Friday, October 15, 2010 | No comments |

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:

Applications, Games, Naev

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

Thursday, October 14, 2010 | No comments |

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:

10.10, Multi Touch, Netbook, Unity, uTouch, Videos

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

Thursday, October 14, 2010 | No comments |

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.

Applications, Games, Urban Terror, URTSB

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

Wednesday, October 13, 2010 | No comments |

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.

Applications, DVDtube, Youtube Downloader

OSD Lyrics PPA Updated with Ubuntu 10.10 Packages