Top 12 Most Popular Posts For September 2010

Seabird - Community Driven Mobile Phone Concept From Mozilla Labs
We have featured a number of mobile phone concepts before, Nokia Morph Concept Phone for example. But Seabird concept phone from Mozilla is in a league of its own. Seabird is a community driven mobile phone concept that debuted at Mozilla Labs 'Concepts'.

Mozilla Seabird
Sintel Open Movie Released and It's Absolutely Beautiful!
We have been talking about Sintel Open Movie for some time now. Sintel is Blender foundation's third open movie project after Elephants Dream and Big Buck Bunny which we featured in our 8 stunning Blender made movies post.

Sintel Movie Poster
Rhythmbox Needs an Overhaul, 100(or less) Papercuts for Rhythmbox Maybe?
Rhythmbox is, as you all know, the default gnome music player and default music player for Ubuntu as well. Canonical integrated Ubuntu One Music Store with Rhythmbox through a plugin with the release of Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" and the implementation works pretty good. The store has a discreet selection of music if you live in UK or USA, for everyone else it's a very small selection of music, but that's another story.

Rhythmbox Icon
Future Ubuntu Releases Will be Shipped With LibreOffice, Says Mark Shuttleworth
OpenOffice's future was doomed from the day when Oracle acquired SUN Microsystems. The eventuality became even more obvious when they pulled the plug on OpenSolaris. Thankfully, OpenOffice is an open source software and leading contributors of the original project has forked OpenOffice and the new project will be called LibreOffice.

LibreOffice
6 More Blender Made Movies and Animations You Probably Haven't Seen Before
Like two weeks ago, we featured some of best and most popular blender made short movies in our 8 stunning blender made short films and animations post. Now, let's take the road less traveled. The blender movies we are going to showcase here are those rare ones which you guys probably haven't seen before.

Blender Movies
Elegant Gnome Theme Pack For Ubuntu is Beautiful, Install in Maverick, Lucid via PPA
Elegant-Gnome theme pack is as good or even better than Equinox GTK + Faenza Icon Set theme combination that we featured some time ago. Elegant Gnome has droid sans as its default font and it also requires nautilus-elementary to be installed for best results.

Elegant Gnome Theme Pack Ubuntu PPA
Top 6 Gnome Shell Themes Ever!
If you are a regular reader of our blog, you probably need no introduction to GNOME Shell and its capabilities. We had a complete review of GNOME Shell before, and we were quite happy with the way it was evolving. GNOME Shell, even though it is still in its early stages of development, was an absolute delight to use.

6 Useful Nautilus Extensions and Scripts You Should Know
The level of modification possible with Nautilus is enormous and some of them were included in our 8 not-so-common nautilus hacks and improvements post. And now, we are going to introduce a bunch of useful Nautilus scripts which can further extend the functionality of nautilus in a big way.

open-nautilus-terminal
Compiz 0.9.2 Revealed, It's Time to Become a Child Again
If you are long time Ubuntu user, then just may be you are also a compiz inspired linux convert, like me. Even now, I don't use a lot a compiz animations in my desktop, but I can't think of a Gnome desktop without Compiz. They are blended together so well. Compiz is nearing another major release and a lot of changes are coming.

Compiz-Fusion
Android Will Continue to Soar, Windows Phone 7 Doomed, Says Gartner
Android's 'openness factor' is proving to be the real difference. According to Gartner, Android will become the second most popular mobile operating system by 2010 year end itself. Android and Symbian will together become the dominating force of the mobile phone market with almost 60% market share by 2014.

Android Wallpaper
Microsoft Patents Operating System Shutdown? WTF!
It is reported that Microsoft recently obtained patent for "Operating System Shutdown". In simpler words, Microsoft now holds the intellectual property rights for 'shutting down an operating system'.

7 Providers of Pre Installed Linux Laptops/PC's
Not many mainstream PC manufacturers have a Linux preinstalled version of their products. But some do have and the there are many other not-so-mainstream providers of Linux preinstalled laptops, netbooks and PC's. Here are a few of them you should know.

Dell Ubuntu