Pre-Order Registration Opens for KDE Tablet

Pre-order registration for forthcoming KDE tablet ‘Spark’ is now open.

The Spark team hope to use the registration period as a means of gauging demand for the fledgling tablet. Those who register now will be given a ‘priority order code’ when pre-ordering begins that will ‘jump your order to the front of the line’.

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Ubuntu 12.04 Gets A New Video Lens For Finding Online Movies, TV Shows

Ubuntu 12.04

Searching for something to watch will be much easier in Ubuntu 12.04 thanks to addition of a new default Video Lens.

As well as being able to sift through the metadata of local files stored in your Videos folder based on a search term, the lens is backed by a set of smart ‘remote video’ scopes that query online services such as YouTube Movies, Amazon, indie service VODO and, for British users, the hallowed BBC iPlayer.

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3 Features New to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion That Ubuntu Already Has

Apple today lifted the lid on the next iteration of their OS X operating system – OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Exciting news in itself for Mac fans, but the reveal introduces a number of new features to the OS X desktop that Ubuntu users have enjoyed for a little while…

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Video Editor Lightworks Still Linux Bound – But Don’t Expect It Soon

The Linux port of professional-grade video editor Lightworks is still ‘on its way’ according to an Editshare spokesperson – but is still not ready for general beta release.

The assurance follows repeated failures to launch a beta version of the application on given dates – the first in Autumn of 2010; the latter in December of 2011.

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update

Robert Roth

Development Update And again we are in the most interesting time of the release cycle. Today we will hit Feature Freeze at around 21:00 UTC. The time where we stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release. Today marks the end of a couple of very busy [...]

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Ubuntu PC Company System76 Debut Video Ad

System76 shouldn’t need much in the way of an introduction to Ubuntu fans, but if they ever do then the following 30 second promo spot for their line of Ubuntu PCs is as great a place as any to start.

Share the video with your social circles to help spread the word of quality hardware designed with Ubuntu in mind.

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[How To] Improve Spotify Stability With A Simple Script

Spotify on Linux with script

Ever since Spotify for Linux gained Apps support its stability has taken a noticeable nosedive.

Thankfully Benjamin Kerensa (yes, of ‘FOSS Yeah’ fame) has put together a short script that tempers the buggy attitude caused, says Kerensa, by ‘unwanted data being left in cache or config temps’.

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Precise Adds User Safeguards to Compiz App

Compiz No No

New safeguards have been added to CCSM – the GUI tool for configuring Compiz – to limit damage caused by users unaware of the tools importance.

When launching the app in Ubuntu 12.04 a pop-up box warning users of the potential risks from idly playing around with settings therein. The ability to disable the Unity desktop plugin from the main plugin overview in CCSM has also been removed.

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Qt Web Browser Qupzilla Improves SpeedDial, Adds New Features in Latest Release

Pop-up windows, external download management and the ‘Paste & Go’ support are just some of the new features present in the latest release of Qt browser Qupzilla. Other notable new stuff added to the lightweight browser includes: – Option to change browser user agent Enable/disable HTML5 storage Global shortcuts for switch to tabs Support for [...]

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Ubuntu Sound Theme Shortlist Ready – You Help Pick the Winner

Four user-created sound themes have been shortlisted with a view to shipping as default in Ubuntu 12.04. It’s now up to you which of the four goes on to receive additional development. Thoughts, critique and opinion are being sought on the entrants via a survey. The findings of the survey will decide the winning soundscape to be [...]

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A Handful of Recent Ubuntu 12.04 Changes…

Unity Greeter LockScreen

Ubuntu 12.04 has been gaining more visible UI changes in recent updates due to the looming ‘freezes’ on features and interface changes.  Below I present a handful of the more ‘prominent’ visual changes that have landed in Precise since the last lot of ‘prominent visual changes‘. To avoid confusion: tweaks to the look of Ubuntu do [...]

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LibreOffice 3.5 Released

LibreOffice 3.5 has been released. It’s the third major release of the free open-source office suite since the project was forked from OpenOffice. A variety of new features have been added to Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw and Base. An online update checker, which will inform users of a new release, also makes it debut in this release. To better illustrate many [...]

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Meet Open-Source eBook Editing/Publishing App ‘BookType’

Booktype Collaboration

A new open-source digital writing  and publishing platform has been launched by non-profit group Sourcefabric. Booktype allows for collaborative editing and writing of books that can be easily outputted to on-demand print services and eReaders such as the Amazon Kindle, Nook, iPad, and more with a few simple clicks. No extraneous formatting, no writing the same book in [...]

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Indie Game Lume Hits Linux via Indie Royale Bundle

The Lume Set

The latest Indie Royale Bundle has been running for a few days and whilst 4/5′s of the game on offer aren’t available for Linux one is – and it’s one that’s worth mentioning. Lume is a point-and-click puzzle game with a difference: the entire set of the game is made from cardboard and paper. “Cardboard and [...]

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German Magazine Wraps Up Ubuntu Switch Guides

As we mentioned last week, German magazine ‘Der Spiegel’ has been running a series of ‘Getting started with Linux’ articles on their website.

Following on from the first article, which talked about the security benefits of Linux over Windows, come the final two parts.

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