Conky is a is a light-weight system monitor that can be customized extensively (Windows converts think ‘rainmeter’.) and the following Conky theme by Veoduendes certainly proves that.

If you just updated to 10.04 and you might be experiencing issues with your function keys supposed to control screen brightness on my Asus UL30a It worked fine in 9.10.

As a music-playing application for the Gnome Desktop, Rhythmbox really has its bases covered. The only area in which Rythmbox is deficient is in ripping, but there are many other programs that take care of that.

Wolfiregames the developers of the Lugaru that are currently working on Overgrowth have posted about The Humble Indie Bundle – Pay What You Want Program! Five games in the price that you decide !

Every so often (this is today's theme) I hear someone say something along the lines of, "I don't need Nepomuk Desktop Search. All my files are properly arranged in a neat folder hierarchy. I am not in need of any help with that, so Nepomuk is a waste of resources and I don't care to have it installed."

I like the brand spanking new Ubuntu 10.04 a lot. But while I like its GNOME 2.30 interface, I also like other interfaces such as KDE. It would be nice if Ubuntu could also play MP3s, common video formats and Flash from the get-go.

The Wine development release 1.1.44 is now available.

Whats new in this release:

* Many more new icons.
* Support for 32-bit prefixes with a 64-bit Wine.
* Many additional msvcr80/90 functions.
* Improvements to Bidi handling.
* More complete mmdevapi (Win7 audio) support.
* Improved handling of MSI patches.
* A number of fixes for desktop menus.

The new Wacom Bamboo Pen (CTL-460) doesn’t work in Ubuntu Lucid out-of-the-box. You need a newer kernel module than the one that comes with Lucid by default. It’s pretty easy to get it working though, you just need to know how.