Quick update on my icon hacking. I have now figured out a way to get most of my notification icons to have broadly the right color. It used to look like this: Now it looks like this: To do this I first copied my Human icon, edited theme.index to change the name of the theme and then [...]

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For some time now there has been a general move over to darker themes in GNOME-land. I have tried a bunch of themes here and there but I have always moved back to the default Ubuntu theme: I always found the dark theme less usable and harder to look at in my day to day [...]

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I decided recently to give a new mail client a whirl. Evolution, while an excellent client, appears to be a bit clunky with IMAP. I specifically have all of my mail go through GMail, and I access with IMAP. Evolution seems to be a bit slow when doing this. I had heard about the new [...]

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A while back, I read with great interest Vincent’s blog entry. I also heard from my fellow Canonicalites about the progress made the GNOME hackfest. I am rather interested in the opportunities before us with the GNOME platform and a new approach to the shell, so when I read Owen’s update I may have actually [...]

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Paul Vixie and Corey Shields currently serves as a judges for the Mozilla Foundation's "Download Day", an attempt to set a Guiness World Record for most downloads in a single day for a new piece of software

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There has been some discussion recently about the future of GNOME. I have seen this blogged on Planet GNOME, on the LugRadio Forums, discussed in corridors and elsewhere. Although I am an ardent supporter and fanboy around GNOME, and I love the desktop for its simplicity and elegance…GNOME has become the software equivalent of my [...]

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Wow, looking at this just goes to show the incredible work the KDE team have done with KDE 4.x. Free software in action. Stunning.

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Late breaking news - it turns out that my keynote at SCALE today will be streamed live over the Internet. You can access it by clicking here - it kicks off at 9.55am Los Angeles time on the 9th Feb 2008. That is today. Tune in to watch Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants: [...]

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As part of my album writing/recording, I am taking a video diary of the whole thing. I was originally planning on producing video diaries and putting them online regularly, but I don’t think I have the time - so I am videoing everything and I will produce a documentary for the DVD when it is [...]

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A few nights ago, we recorded LugRadio. In this episode, Season 5 Episode 7, which is released on Mon 17th Dec 2007, we did a review of the Asus EEE PC, and we are also giving one away in a competition. One of the distinctive traits of EEE PC, and many other sub-notebook, MID and smaller [...]

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Adam is not wrong. The post is not just a good title though, but a great update on the things that are going on with NetworkManager. Congratulations to team hacking on it - keep up the great work. This takes me back to 2000 or 2001 time when I remember there being significant blockers [...]

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Ever so quick shout out to my French friend and cheese lover, Edward Hervey, for releasing 0.11.0 of PiTiVi. I know this release has been a long time coming, and we are starting to see video editing functionality being rolled into it - with this release you can import video, cut, move clips around, transcode [...]

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Ladies and Gentleman, Boys and Girls, I am pleased to announce FOSSCamp 2007 on Sat 27th and Sun 28th Oct 2007 at The Hilton @ MIT, Massachusetts, USA! The aim of FOSSCamp 2007 is to provide a means for Open Source projects to get together to discuss and debate how to work together and how to [...]

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Earlier today someone in IRC chat room pointed out me an easter egg (hidden feature or message in a game or software or sound track) for Ubuntu Linux. apt-get command easter egg Open your terminal and type the command: apt-get moo (__) [...]

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With the release of Windows Vista, using your PC to watch and record TV has become a whole lot easier. Now, for the first time, Windows Media Center comes bundled with Home Premium and Ultimate versions of the standard Desktop operating system. However vista is not just costly but buggy stuff loaded with DRM. [...]

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