Small tool to change the login window appearance
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
Easily configure the GDM, ‘login manager’ to the rest of us, with ‘Change GDM GUI’ – a simple script for changing various aspects of the login interface.
The script allows you to change the wallpaper, the GTK theme and various other options (as can seen in the screenshot beneath).
Download
Download the .zip file @ this link
When finished right click on the archive and choose ‘Extract...
Multi-DB Plugin Updated For Improved WordPress Multisite Scaling
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
Our Multi-DB plugin allows for massive scaling of your WordPress Multisite network to hundreds, even thousands of sites. It allows you to split your single database into 16, 256 or 4096 database – and if you are using cPanel, even incorporates a script that will do that for you.
We’ve recently taken it up a couple notches with improvements that will help to keep everything running smoothly.
What...
SkyFire Proves Users Want Flash on the iPhone
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
Skyfire ranks among the hottest apps in the Apple App Store, providing an interesting and Apple-approved way to watch Flash content on your iPhone. The app basically reads the web page, figures out where the Flash content is, then re-encodes it on Skyfire’s cloud to view inside a pop-up in the app browser. And it’s a money maker. Implications on the mobile scene? Oh yeah…
You can read the 300,000...
BuddyPress Mobile Plugin
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
More and more people are using their iPhones, iPads Android phones and other smartphones to access websites. This is particularly important for social media sites which people love to check when they are on the go. If you’re going to have a sustainable BuddyPress site then its worth installing BuddyPress Mobile.
Features
Optimize BuddyPress sites for iPhone, Android and some Blackberry devices
Automatically...
Jimmy Wales Chrome extension adds Wikipedia appeal banner to every site
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
If you browse the web and find yourself thinking ‘There just aren’t enough Jimmy Wales appeal banners around’ then read on to discover how you can bring joy back to your browsing experience.
Once installed it inserts a subtle ‘Personal Appeal from Jimmy Wales’ banner onto every site you visit. No more need to visit Wikipedia every hour to get your fix – get it everywhere and anywhere.
Here’s...
WooThemes e-commerce themes now available on Magento
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
WooThemes now has e-commerce themes available on Magento. Magento is known for being a feature rich platform that takes a lot of time and patience to learn how to develop on.
WooThemes hopes to capture some of the market on Magento with their three new themes: Air, Coquette, and WooStore.
They have teamed up with two experienced Magento developers named James Koster & Chris Balchin to head their...
Firefox 4 Beta 7 – how it should look on Linux
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
Yesterday we mentioned that Firefox 4 Beta for Linux now boasts a ‘menu’ button rather than a menu bar. Whilst it’s undoubtedly welcome it doesn’t look as good as it could – nor should.
Below is a mock-up posted on the Mozilla wiki of of how the Firefox 4 in Linux should look.
Here, for reference, is how it currently looks: -
Not quite there yet; if the beta manages to hit its intended...
Rethinking video editing with Novacut
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
In this guest post, Jason DeRose of Novacut team explains about the design focus for their upcoming video editor.
Being at UDS was inspiring and life changing for the Novacut team. (A big thanks to all the OMG! Ubuntu! readers and everyone who helped us get there!) Particularly inspiring was the summit’s relentless focus on design. So I wanted to share a bit about Novacut design focus, entice...
Typographic Logo Designs
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
Typography plays a major role in making or breaking design, especially when main emphasize of design is typography, then no matter what kind of design is (print design or web design). So we regularly talk about typography. So this time in our logo inspiration series, we are showcasing 30 typographic logo designs. In these logos you won’t find any icons or symbols. It’s all about typefaces.
Dot Hill Unveils New Unified Virtual Storage Portfolio
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
Dot Hill, known for their “Assured” suite of storage solutions, is expanding its product line to tackle growing virtualization storage needs. It’s called Dot hill AssuredUVS solutions, available both in Datacenter and Standard versions. The goal is to bring storage virtualization to the SMB and SME markets. Here’s the plan…
Consolidation and cost concerns are part of the challenges that...
Maxis 10 Reviewers Programme Nokia N8
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
Maxis, the Malaysia local telco, has a Maxis 10 Reviewers Programme which each bath pick 10 bloggers to review their latest phone offer. It has been several batches now. Everyone can apply but not sure the selection criterial though.
Lucky enough, I have been selected as 1 of 10 Malaysian bloggers to review the Nokia N8 smartphone.
Yes, the phone with 12 Megapixel camera!
The secret of Maxis 10 reviewers...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: It’s All About Virtualization
November 25th, 2010 by Youzhny
Red Hat wants to be more than a Linux company. The latest potential proof: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6) has arrived. Look under the hood and you’ll find Red Hat bolstering its virtualization strategy with KVM (Kernel-based Virtualization). Simply put, Red Hat hopes RHEL6 and KVM provide a one-two punch against VMware and Microsoft’s Hyper-V. But is Red Hat really ready to challenge entrenched...