A new dock on the Block

So I have been gone the last couple of days and will probably be busting out lots of posts again, since a lot seems to always go one when I am gone. Anywho there is this new dock, like application which seems nice if you have loads of launchers. It seems that you just use your mouse scroll wheel and you just wheel the launchers around....looks like fun, will have to try it once i get settled here.

Compiz Fusion Update

Compiz fusion recently had a poll to vote on what there new icons shoudl look like.....and thi is the winner:
Well now, personally I am not a fan of this logo at all. I am more of the type that likes more brighter things then dark....willing to hear what you guys think of this logo. Also in this new release of Compiz Fusion is the paper airplane plugin I mentioned here before. Also there is a new plugin called skewer which is demonstrated in this video:



I can't wait to try out this new skewer plug in, it looks like it coudl be a lot of fun. This I guess makes up for the crappy icon set chosen....

New Comment system

Ok folks there are quite a lot of visitors to this blog, but you don't seem very chatty. So we got a new comment system that is beyond cool. So go check it out, and discuss posts!

Cool Ubuntu Screen Saver

I stumbled across this nifty Ubuntu screen saver some of you may like. It looks very nice and smooth, and is simple:



If you liked it, I also found this nice howto for easy installation of the screen saver.

Spotlight Video

I just enabled the spotlight patch for Awn which is still in development. I know I posted some video before on how spotlight works but here is one I made myself. It's my first Linux video so I just wanted to share. Nothing Special just shows how the spotlight effect works:

Awn Spotlight Effect Development

Recent talk on the Awn forum have been about more and different ideas for hover effects; when the mouse is over the icons on the dock. One of the effects is a spotlight effect with a light shinning up from below the icon, here is a screen shot taken from the hover effects post:



Anywho forum user dolfje has been workign on creating this effect and has given us some videos to look at:

Video 1

Video 2

$199 Linux Laptop

Now here looks like a pretty nifty laptop. This laptop is made by Asustek and will run a flash hard drive. The laptop looks sleek and light, but runs Xandros linux. Now there is nothing wrong with that, I am just used to Ubuntu. And I bet you could easily change it to any distro you want once you got the laptop. Anywho I could keep rambling on about this laptop when you coudl just watch a nice video demonstration of it over at PC World.