The following articles below were published during the month of March 2012 (times are based on UTC):
I recently had reason to boot into my Fedora VM - it is the latest and greatest Fedora 16 in all its glory. Along the way, I realized something. Fedora's fonts suck. please note that if you load the full article, you will have a lot, and I mean a lot of screenshots loading. Its a large number of them. Also, I do not mean to insult those who spend their time developing GNOME - you guys rock. And then I realized something else. GNOME's fonts suck. Fedora just uses the default ones. Let us take a look around, shall we? First of all, let me make adistinctionbetween what I said in the title, and what it ...
I won't bore you with a long list details (you can get a list from our friends over at iloveubuntu.com. Download it, try it, be impressed by it. http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/ Unity 2D got a HUD btw, so work it hard and report bugs! Update: Apparently the official announcement and release have not yet made it out. We may or may not be able to update you when that actually happens, so stay tuned. Thanks to Benjamin Kerensa for the heads up.
[important] Do you like to read? I do, and finally we readers can have our fix. Ubuntu's Software Centre has it's first novel, by action man David Jordan, called Zhackers. [/important] Oh and guess what. If you purchase this, you are supporting and funding a live action film (yes, live action), made with Open Source Software! Once you purchase it, you'll continue to receive any updates as they land. ZHackers: Visual Effects Preview from David Jordan on Vimeo. An official 2buntu.com review is due soon (as soon as I've begun to dig in. Thanks to David for graciously providing me with a copy for review). (P.S. Shameless plug, David's work has inspired me to look into getting published ...
Congratulations to Gnome on another spanking release! Gnome 3.4 brings some new and some improved applications. Epiphany is now Web, Gnome Documents has been updated, Boxes is now officially available, and so much more. Gnome 3.4 also means GTK+ 3.4, which means better CSS theming, and smooth scrolling, which is not fully implemented yet (you won't notice it everywhere and there are still some details to be landed). Also, you will notice that there improvements in many areas of the Gnome Desktop (including Gnome Shell) as a result of the Every Pixel Matters effort. One of the improvements I noticed was that Gnome Shell is much smoother. For those spreading the idea that Gnome Shell 3.4 and the rest of ...
Have a minute? Or 200? If you do, hop over to this elementary Labs experiment: http://labs.elementaryos.org/experiment-2/ - and give it a go. Your simple input can and will go a long way in helping the elementary project (from which we get the likes of Postler and Switchboard) in a big way. Why are you still reading this? GO ALREADY!
GSoC == Google Summer of Code The Google Summer of Code is around the corner, and of course there are several big names involved this time around. We cannot possibly go through all of the projects that are a part of it this year, but we will try in the coming weeks to highlight some of the projects we think you should check out and possibly pitch into if you can. One of these is the popular LibreOffice suite. What LibreOffice needs: A few good men, women, monkeys, and aliens? Okay well the latter two may be a bit unnecessary, but obviously if you are a capable man or woman interested in contributing and learning at the same time, while ...
GNOME 3.4 is not here yet, but it's almost time. With that in mind, GNOME 3.4 packages have started to land in 12.04's repositories. Hopefully if all goes according to plan, GNOME 3.4 will land some time next week.
It has been a while since I have posted and there are many reasons for that but one of them is this little tribute wallpaper I have been working on for users of Askubuntu. I have been contributing to Askubuntu on and off for over a year now and I felt like I wanted to say something about the people who contribute a little and a lot..... You Make Ubuntu Rock!! [caption id="attachment_2760" align="aligncenter" width="664" caption="Say it loud Say it proud "I am an AskUbuntu User""][/caption] Clicking the Image will take you to my deviant art page where you can download the zip which is about 23MB It Comes in these size's 16:9 (2560x1440 - 1920x1080 - ...
In my previous article, I went into quite a bit of detail on the basics of JavaScript. Since I was only able to cover a small subset of JavaScript syntax in the first part, I will pick up right where I left off and we will begin by taking a look at functions. Functions Functions consist of a series of instructions that perform a discrete task or (for lack of a better term) function. An example might clear things up so I will provide one: function calculateArea(radius) { return Math.PI * radius * radius; } Although the purpose of this function should be immediately obvious from its name, let's take a moment to look at each part. First of all, ...
Warning: This post is a somewhat fun, though thoughtful, look at some of the recent occurrences in the world of technology companies. Don't take it too seriously and send us hate mail. We will ignore you :). Recently the world of technology has been having some major shake ups. More companies are merging, giving up, doing crazy things, and in general acting in ways we never saw coming, then probably ever before in history. Yesterday I read that there is a rumour Samsung may be planning to use BlackberryOS 10 on some devices. The whole thing is making me wonder just what these companies are up to. There's some good, some bad, and some downright stupid going on. Twitter bought ...