One feature I’ve been looking forward to in Ubuntu 8.10 is the encrypted private directory. With this feature, you’ll get a folder called Private in your home. Private will work just like a normal folder, but it will be transparently encrypted and automatically locked and unlocked when you log in and out.
The encryption is provided [...]

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VirtualBox’s guest additions provide better display drivers, mouse pointer integration, seamless windows, and more. If you’re doing much work in a virtual machine you should have them installed.
VirtualBox 2’s guest additions have been improved over older versions. I wrote a guide awhile ago for VirtualBox 1.5.
I wrote this guide with VirtualBox 2.0.2, and tested both [...]

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CodeWeavers, a company which sells a proprietary version of Wine, has released an easily installable package for running Google Chrome on Linux. CrossOver Chromium is a modified version of Chromium (the open source code which runs Google Chrome) combined with CodeWeaver’s modified version of Wine.
Right now the only advantage running CrossOver Chromium over Chrome with [...]

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A major new version of the VLC media player has been released. 0.9.2 adds a new Qt4 user interface, fullscreen controls, improved playlists, album art support, and new file format support. See the VLC wiki page for all the changes.
It’s past the feature-freeze for Ubuntu 8.10, but an exception may be made for this new [...]

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Have multiple keyboards and mice on your desk? With Synergy, you can seamlessly share one keyboard, mouse, and clipboard between multiple systems. Have a laptop to the right of your main display? Just move the cursor off the right edge of the screen and it will appear on the laptop.
QuickSynergy is a graphical application for [...]

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