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- Canonical Drop Funding for Kubuntu 1
- Privacy Controls & Minor UI Tweaks Land in Ubuntu 12.04 2
- Sublime Text 2 - A Fast & Fancy Text Editor3
- 'Der Spiegel' Helping German Readers 'Switch to Linux'4
- SDG Launch 'Military Grade' Tough Tablet Running Ubuntu 10.045
- Ubuntu One Online 'Notes' Feature To Be Removed in Feb6
- "We’re Going to be Building Awesome Things" - Ubuntu TV Interview with Canonical's Will Cooke7
- Clean Up the Unity Launcher with Category Quick-lists8
- Orta Theme Ported to GTK 3; Here's How to Install It9
- [How To] Increase Volume Past 100% in KDE10
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[How To] Increase Volume Past 100% in KDE
Veromix plasmoid for KDE offers many features, including per-app volume control, configurable equaliser and global hotkeys, but it also allows you to increase system volume past the default 100% point, thus making it handy when encountering a barely audible movie or audio file.
Reader Ovidiu-Florin sent in a step-by-step guide for us to share with you on installing and configuring Veromix for this purpos
Easily Monitor System Resources in Ubuntu With Indicator-Multiload
Do you like to keep an eye on system resource usage in Ubuntu?
Like many people I only tend to do so when my desktop is grinding to a halt because of a misbehaving app. Because of this I’m sometimes too impatient late to gracefully rectify the situation; my desktop becomes so unresponsive that nothing short of a hard reboot is required inorder to solve the screw up in a timely fashion.
But maybe if I kept a cautious eye on hardware usage I would spot rogue apps before they got out of hand. Perhaps by using something like Indicator Multiload: -
Sublime Text 2 – A Fast & Fancy Text Editor
Sublime Text 2, a proprietary IDE currently in beta, is often described as being better than the popular Mac client ‘TextMate’. A developer ecosystem surrounds the application, crafting ever-new plugins and add-ons to extend the functionality.
Firefox 10 Released
Firefox 10 has been officially released.
The introduction of a new rapid-release programme means users of Ubuntu 10.04 onwards will automatically be upgraded to the latest releases of Firefox via Update Manager – no extra effort or PPAs are required.
New Stable Release of OpenShot Video Editor Ready
New features and effects have landed in the latest release of open-source linux video editor OpenShot.
Read in for more details, screenshots, short video of the new 3D wireframe text effect and the all important download instructions.
10 of the Best Unity Lenses & Scopes for Ubuntu
It’s somewhat apt that Ubuntu’s ‘Lenses’ feature has brought Unity into clearer focus for many of its initial critics.
The search-orientated display windows – called ‘Lenses’ – make finding specific files, apps or information easy to do thanks to their tuned ‘search backends’ – called Scopes’.
Inside we lost 10 of the best Lenses and Scopes available for Ubuntu 11.10.
‘Mounty’ – Simple Disk Image Mounter for Ubuntu
Mounting disc image files (.iso, .img, .dmg, etc) in Ubuntu isn’t hard. There are a number of applications available designed to carry out the task.
But Mounty, a system tray applet, is probably the easiest of them.
Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st January-2nd February
It’s everybody’s second-most favourite time of the release again. No, not the actual release, but it’s Ubuntu Developer Week!
New Tool Gives Greater Control Over GTK Theming in KDE
Running GTK+ applications on the KDE desktop isn’t as brutish-looking as it once was thanks to the creation of an oxygen-gtk theme.
But as oxygen-gtk isn’t capable of playing all that nice with GTK3 applications the following tool was created to offer up greater control over GTK apps running in KDE.
GNOME-Pie 0.4 Released, Adds New Settings Dialog
A new release of visually slick application launcher GNOME Pie has been made available to download.
Notable new fillings making up version 0.4 are a GTK3 port and improved settings dialog.
[How To] Easily Install The Slickest Software Center on Linux
Installing software just got easier: The Linux Deepin Software Center is now available to install in Ubuntu 11.10.
The software store is easily the gems in the crown of Ubuntu-based Chinese Linux distribution ‘Linux Deepin’. It sports a clean layout, low-resource usage, and integrates package management features not present in the Ubuntu Software Centre.
Desktop YouTube Music Player Gets Updated
Innovative YouTube music player ‘Musictube’ has a new release out – but is it a hit?
Updates Arrive for Ubuntu One Android App
Recent updates to the Ubuntu One Files application for Android have added some welcome features. You can now sign up for an Ubuntu One account within the application itself. Prior to this one had to use the Ubuntu One website. Prior to the sign-up a short introduction of Ubuntu One’s features is shown. This intro [...]
Facebook Chat, New Features Land in Latest Release of Smuxi IRC App
Smuxi, my personal favourite IRC client, has a new release available. It adds a number of new features that make it capable of pleasing the most ardent of IRC users.
[How To] Add a “Places” Menu in KDE
KDE. Some think of it as the desktop environment that doesn’t get the attention it deserves. What I like most about KDE is that there is Plasmoid (a form of widget for KDE) for almost everything – Facebook, clocks, weather, tweeting, start menus, Dash, calculator, system monitors etc… you name it. One plasmoid I find really [...]