This post contains portion of quality Christmas wallpapers for your Ubuntu. Every background presented here has resolution of 1280×1024 pixels so should fit almost any screen. Click ‘Save Link As…’ to save any wallpaper.
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Posted on November 26th, 2010 by kate.p in Wallpapers | 1 comment35+ Ubuntu Icon Themes
Posted on October 19th, 2010 by kate.p in Themes | 13 comments
This is multipage post dedicated to best of Banshee 1.8 Released!
Posted on September 30th, 2010 by kate.p in Applications, News | 0 comments
The latest stable version of the most inspirational music player for Ubuntu has been finally released. Banshee 1.8 comes with dramatical list of improvements, changes and bugfixes including official support of Amazon MP3 store, Miro Podcasts, reworked Apple devices support and much more. See below for more details.
Extract mp3 from Youtube in one step
Posted on September 28th, 2010 by kate.p in Applications, Quick Tips | 17 commentsSmall utility utube2mp3 makes it possible to download mp3 from youtube in one easy step — just point it to certain youtube clip and get mp3 file as the output. I like this simple and elegant tool.
In order to get started you have to download utube2mp3 binary, make it executable and create Desktop shortcut. Open Ubuntu Menu –> Accessories –> Terminal and type the following commands:
cd ~/Downloads/ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/utube2mp3/files/utube2mp3_0.1.2/utube2mp3_linux_x86.tar.gz/download tar -xvzf utube2mp3_linux_x86.tar.gz chmod +x utube2mp3 ln -s ~/Downloads/utube2mp3 ~/Desktop/utube2mp3
From now you can start utube2mp3 youtube conversion utility from your Ubuntu Desktop. Just copy/paste URL of youtube video you wish to get mp3 from, e.g. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9TGj2jrJk8 (Led Zeppelin — Stairway to Heaven) and press “Get mp3!” button. You will be prompted where to save resulting mp3 file to be retrieved from certain youtube video and in a few minutes you will see .mp3 file there.
Banshee + Vizualization Effects
Posted on September 16th, 2010 by kate.p in Quick Tips | 4 commentsI strongly believe Banshee is the best music player/organizer for Ubuntu. And today there is good news for hogs who think like me — the latest Banshee 1.7.6 has been released and package of community extensions was also updated. Now it includes visualizations for Banshee. See below how to extend your Banshee with visualization effects.
Bring Ubuntu Look into Windows XP
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by kate.p in Quick Tips, Themes | 6 commentsI really believe new Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat light theme and thus polished look is just a candy. Honestly I wasn’t surprised when came across freddi67′s page where he shared Ambiance (default in Meerkat) color scheme for Windows XP…
Wallpapers for Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat
Posted on August 30th, 2010 by kate.p in Wallpapers | 6 commentsA few days ago Canonical presented final set of wallpapers that will come with long awaited Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat. This exploded with lively discussion including “Wow, that looks awesome!” and “It looks ugly!”. I believe it is the natural idea to have a look at those wallpapers by yourself and create your own opinion. In order to download any of below wallpapers — right click on the image and press “Save Link As…”. Or download complete archives from here or here.
Free Brushes for Gimp
Posted on August 25th, 2010 by kate.p in Quick Tips | 2 comments
I believe Gimp is one of the best graphics editor for Ubuntu and I use it when working on all my projects which require to create and/or edit images. See below a list of brushes to enhance Gimp’s functionality — they are downloadable for free and can easily be added to Gimp (just copy contents of certain downloaded brush pack and copy it to Gimp user directory, e.g. /home/username/.gimp-2.6/brushes). Hope you find them useful!
Top 100 widescreen wallpapers for your Ubuntu
Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by kate.p in Wallpapers | 5 comments
Today I would like to share the links to top 100 of the best wallpapers for Ubuntu. Most of them has resolutions of 1920×1200 so are for widescreens. This post is multi-page one so you are welcome to navigate it using corresponding links above. BTW, If you would like to share certain wallpaper that is not listed in this post — just send it to me via e-mail and it will appear here shortly (except wallpapers violating someone’s copyright). Thanks to gnome-look.org that is primary source of the best wallpapers, themes and similar stuff for Ubuntu and other Linux distrubutions.
Anime Wallpapers for your Ubuntu
Posted on July 27th, 2010 by kate.p in Wallpapers | 6 commentsThis post contains next portion of quality wallpapers for Ubuntu. This time it is set #2 of 1280×1024 anime wallpapers. Click ‘Save Link As…’ to save any of below desktop cover.
