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Give ‘Well Wishes’, Get a Free Copy Of Time Travel Strategy Game ‘Achron’

I am back on OMG! Ubuntu! and to celebrate it is time for another game giveaway

This time I have for you a brand spanking new copy of the Indie Realtime Strategy game Achron where time is your play thing… yes that is right, meta-time gaming and it runs on your Linux desktop.

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A few good Banshee features: New Artist Browser and eMusic integration

Banshee 2.0 is out and default in Natty which is all good and well but.. Banshee has not been resting. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, these new features are presented to you as screenshots.

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Banshee sucketh the big one, or how to correctly file a bug and stop worrying

There are bugs in Banshee, as I write this, 815 known or suspected bugs to be specific. Likely there are many more… and you, the user, is thus at risk of hitting one.

Here is what to remember when experiencing a Banshee problem.

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Tell a joke, get OilRush!

One of the years big Linux game releases is coming, Unigine’s realtime strategy game Oil Rush.

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GNOME+Mono hackfest day 1

It’s now the morning of day 2 and people are slowly starting to arrive at the Hackerspace.be room we call home during the GNOME+Mono hackfest.

On day one we were so busy that the first task of day in fact is posting the update.

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Banshee: Video, TV shows, Windows and hackfest, oh my!

From deep in Hanger 18, your reporter is proud to bring you some exclusive Banshee goodies.

Read on for more information…

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The truth about Banshee’s photo support

“Will Banshee support Photo management?”

This is a common question both in the comments here but also in my private mails so I thought I would address it on OMG! Ubuntu! as my first editorial on the site.

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Banshee now default in Natty daily builds

The day we’ve all be waiting for has finally arrived.

After much hard work by the Banshee Project and Ubuntu, Banshee has finally been made the default music player in Natty.

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You asked for it, Banshee gets DVD support

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Santa is not the only one delivering presents, the always hardworking Olivier Dufour, has just gotten past the last major technical hurdle in adding the DVD support he and Alex Launi have been working on. Here today running on my meager machine. This has been a frequent request from OMG! commenters so it brings me [...]

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Help improve Banshee’s performance on Maverick

Banshee having been picked as Ubuntu’s new default Music player is getting popular to test on all supported versions of Ubuntu. However there is a snag, for Maverick users, of which Ubuntu has a lot testing Banshee from what I can tell looking at the incoming bugs on GNOMEs bugtracker against Banshee.

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Monster Mega Mono News Update

The Mono 2.8 preview release created some stir in our comment section when it was announced with performance improvements and a new more efficient memory system. It was since released , and had a maintance update to address a number of issues.

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Banshee gets Jamendo support

While the core development team are busy working on core enhancements and ensuring a rock solid Banshee 2.0, new community extension developer dz0ny has provided initial Jamendo support.

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Banshee OMG style, now with 100% more genre filtering

Since Joey scooped me by posting Alex Launis exellent Play Queue enhancement, I figured now the time has come to show off a 5 month old feature in Banshee. Yes.. 5 months old. Namely Alexander Kojevnikov‘s (alexk on #banshee) Genre filter patch since this is one of the most requested features amongst the comments to [...]

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Banshee now corrects your metadata automatically

We first reported on Oliver Dufoli’s Last.fm audio fingerprinting extension for Banshee back in mid-September. Now less than a month later I am happy to report that the extension has been merged into the Banshee Community Extensions and is functional.

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