November 2, 2010 · General · (No comments)

Oracle Magazine Contains technology strategy articles, sample code, tips, Oracle and partner news, how to articles for developers and DBAs, and more.
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November 1, 2010 · General · 21 comments

Unity and it’s range of technologies brings simplicity, power, and integration to both users and application developers. Unity puts design, integration, and Free Software at the heart of delivering a powerful and attractive experience.
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November 1, 2010 · General · 6 comments

The gksu extension for nautilus allows you to open files with administration privileges using the context menu when browsing your files with nautilus.
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November 1, 2010 · General · 2 comments

Nautilus Image Converter is a Nautilus extension to mass resize and rotate images. It adds a "Resize Images..." menu item to the context menu of all images. This opens a dialog where you set the desired image size and file name. A click on "Resize" resizes the image(s) using ImageMagick's convert tool. A "Rotate Images..." menu item is also available.
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October 29, 2010 · News · 16 comments

Many Ubuntu users will undoubtedly have strong opinions on Canonical’s recent proposal to replace the GNOME desktop with Unity in the Ubuntu 11.04 release.  But for the programmers behind GNOME, one of the open-source community’s most important projects, the announcement might prove to be even more upsetting.  Jon McCann, lead designer for GNOME Shell, recently shared his thoughts on this topic with us–and he was none too charitable in his comments on Canonical.  Read on for details.
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