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Mozilla Thunderbird 3.1 was just released featuring faster search, quick filter toolbar, better migration assistant and many other improvements.

nVidia released the new 256.35 display drivers as stable, just 2 days after the release candidate.

Xnoise is basically an music player but it can also play videos too and unlike other Linux music players, it uses a tracklist centric design. I didn't call it a "media player" because even though it can play both audio and video files, it seems to be designed more towards playing music. Xnoise can in fact play any audio / video format supported by Gstreamer and what I like about it is that in the hierarchy view you have both music and videos - so if you have some videos along with your music, you can play the videos too, something I've always been looking for in a music player (using VLC for playing music just doesn't feels right for me).

Like you already know, VLC 1.1.0 (final) has been released yesterday. The C-Korn PPA has been updated with the final VLC 1.1.0 version so Ubuntu users can use it to upgrade to the latest stable VLC.

When a developer creates a new application, he must start writing it very early in the Ubuntu development stages to be able to get his application in the official Ubuntu repositories (Universe) or else the only way he can provide that application to the current Ubuntu release is through a PPA - which is not easy discoverable by the users. But Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat wants to change the game: according to the whiteboard of the "Implementation of delivering apps post-release" blueprint, a new Ubuntu repository "extras.ubuntu.com" will be created and new applications will be uploaded to this repository even for the already released Ubuntu versions.

Colin Watson (Ubuntu Development Manager) just announced on the Ubuntu-Devel mailing list that you can now perform installations with a BTRFS root filesystem using the latest Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat daily iso.

GoogleCL is a command line tool to manage all the Google services: you can upload photos to your PicasaWeb albums, post to your Blogger blog, modify Google Calendar events, add contacts, manage your Google Docs (upload, delete, and so on) and even upload videos to YouTube. Unfortunately it doesn't come with support for Gmail.

This was something pretty much obvious, but now Mark Shuttleworth confirmed it: the Unity panel won't allow any kind of customizations. That means not only that you won't be able to add/edit applets like in Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.04 (which could be easily "fixed"), but the user won't even be able to right click the applets to move them or whatever - nothing will happen upon right-clicking.

Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. To use Conky, you must manually set it up - and that's not easy as you must manually create the configuration file and customize it yourself. But now you can do this a lot easier using ConkyWizard, a GUI written in Qt and C++ to set up Conky and customize everything visually.

It seems the Linux version of the popular IRC server Unreal IRCd was contaminated with malware ever since November 2009, without anyone noticing it. The announcement was made on the Unreal IRCd forums:

So you're wondering why even though Adobe released their Flash Player 10.1 yesterday, there's no 64bit Linux build available for download. Well, it seems Adobe discontinued the 64bit Flash Player 10.1 beta for Linux.

Canonical will launch an Ubuntu version for tablet computers which should be available in the winter of 2011. The info comes from Chris Kenyon, Canonical's vice president of OEM.

While many believed "aptitude" will soon replace "apt-get" given the fact that it's a lot "smarter", it seems that's not the case in Ubuntu - in fact it's quite the opposite: aptitude has been removed from Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat though it is still available in the repositories.

In the Light Themes testing PPA (which finally includes the latest Murrine Engine so the PPA is now usable by anyone) some updates today brought a new icon pack called "Humanities" derived from the Humanity icon theme and comes in two versions: Humanities-Dark-Orange (for a dark panel) and Humanities-Dark-Orange-Light (for a light panel).

If you're planning on using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat on a computer with a processor older than i686, well... you can't. [...]

In this post I'll explain how to optimize the screen real-estate for Ubuntu Netbook Edition, increase battery life, replace OpenOffice with the new Zoho Webservice cloud application which comes in the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx repositories and a lot more!

Nautilus Elementary just added a customizable toolbar as well as a button to toggle between a text-mode and breadcrumbs location bar - something which almost everybody has been missing in the default Nautilus that comes with Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

DockBarX 0.39.1 was just released, bringing a new preview system (ported from vanilla dockbar) that has live previews instead of stills. The new DockBarX 0.39.1 also brings support for Avant Window Navigator 0.4.1 which results in something simply amazing. Read on!

Here are just a few of the changes in the latest Elementary Theme from BZR: started using Equinox GTK engine too, new sexy midori tabbar and statusbar workaround, special toolbar/menubar rules for nautilus, minimal range for Nautilus, Terminal style, awasome sexy panel now with prelight, scrollbars with no steppers (which you can preview in the screenshot below) and a lot more!

Pidgin 2.7.1 which was released today fixes a 3-year-old bug related to MSN file transfers. Until now, Pidgin didn't support direct file transfers with the official MSN client making the direct file transfer very slow: