If there’s one thing Linux is better at than any other operating system, it’s allowing you to tweak the desktop.

Blair Mathis, has written the article those “who love to see the glitter, glamour, and special effects and want to pimp their Gnome desktop.”

The article looks at:

Compiz
Themes
Icons
Widgets
Dock

Read more here: Eye Candy: Pimping the Gnome Desktop on Ubuntu – LaptopLogic.com
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Steve Jobs once said “Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It’s great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we’re waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace”

Well that could all be about to change as Panasonic, Philips, and Sony have joined forces to create a new consolidated process for licensing the formats in Blu-ray Disc products.

In an announcement this week, the big three stated that they have joined with other Blu-ray patent holders to allow manufacturers to procure …

The week the Omni Group, the people behind the popular OmniGraffle diagraming software, released four of their applications as freeware. OmniWeb, OmniDazzle, OmniDiskSweeper, and OmniObjectMeter are all now available with no licensing restrictions and are fully functional.

OmniWeb is an advanced web browsing that’s easy and fun.
OmniDazzle is a set of fun and useful enhancements that help you highlight certain areas of your screen, create visual effects, and track the location of your mouse pointer.
OmniDiskSweeper is a utility for quickly finding and deleting big, useless files and thus making space on …

The UK government has said it will accelerate the use of open source software in public services. Tom Watson MP, minister for digital engagement, said open source software would be on a level playing field with proprietary software such as Windows.
Steve Shine, European vice president of Ingres, an open source support vendor, said the government’s action plan had “more teeth” than policies being adopted in other countries because the plan was tied into policies regarding how IT managers procure new software.
He said the move had partly been driven by …

Apple has just released a beta of their Safari web browser for the Mac and for the PC. Judging by previous “beta” releases from Apple, the quality should be very high and the browser should be very useable now.
Amongst the raft of cool and new features on Safari 4 are:
Full-Page Zoom – Zoom in or out on web content using keyboard shortcuts, Multi-Touch gestures, or the Zoom toolbar button for more comfortable reading. Images and graphics scale up while your text remains razor sharp, keeping the web page layout consistent …