Since Twitter has shut-down the Jabber service, users can no longer update their Twitter status through Google Talk in Pidgin and have to unwillingly use Twitter Clients for Ubuntu for this purpose.
Though such clients are good and useful but updating Twitter status through Pidgin has its own ease and fun.

Ubuntu Linux fans have their hopes high for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex as it will feature a complete new user interface and a stylish new brownish-black theme which we have already witnessed in some of the screenshots for the Alpha build.
Canonical is planning to surpass Mac OS X in the next coming two years but [...]

Launchy, the famous open-source keystroke application launcher, which was previously available for Windows only has now made its way into Linux too.
Launchy is a free utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. It indexes the programs in your start menu and can [...]

Adobe Air applications are multiplying in number day by day. The reason for this great expansion is the flexibility of the Adobe Air platform which supports light-weight, simple and multi-platform apps.
Today we have another Adobe Air app in review, called Apprise.

Ubuntu is one of most popular and widely used Linux flavor, any windows users who wants to switch to Linux can opt for Ubuntu without fearing about commands and controls since Ubuntu is almost like windows with nicely supported GUI. Ubuntu has variety of supported applications too.
However searching for proper packages of your favorite application [...]

VLC Media Player is a portable multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. One of the best thing about VLC Media player is that it can play incomplete, unfinished, or damaged video downloads before the files have been fully [...]

While Windows has got nearly more than a thousand tweaking utilities, Ubuntu Linux has got one too and its known as Ubuntu Tweak.
Ubuntu Linux is no doubt the most user-friendly and easy to use Linux distro but when it comes to tweaking and playing with the hidden OS settings, the Terminal can prove to be [...]

At first I found it quite difficult to use Pidgin Internet Messenger on Ubuntu Linux. Even though it allows signing into MSN, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk, it still doesn’t give me the real feel of an instant messenger.
After a little research on the Internet, I was sad to find out that Microsoft does not [...]

If you are big fan of Linux then you would definitely want out to try this new Ubuntu-based Linux flavor known as WattOS.
WattOS is a remaster of Ubuntu Linux in a lightweight fashion that runs quickly with low system requirements. The operating system will run on low power computers and recycled systems keeping you working [...]

Some days ago the first alpha version of the upcoming version of Ubuntu i.e. Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex was announced by Canonical.
Softpedia has got some good screens of this new version some of which I would like to share with all Linux lovers.