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- Sublime Text 2 - A Fast & Fancy Text Editor5
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Trauma was Most Bought Ubuntu App in December
Adventure game ‘Trauma’ topped the list of Ubuntu’s top selling paid apps in December.
Last month’s top selling Software Centre item – the critically acclaimed puzzle game Braid – drops two places to 3.
Read on for the full top 10 paid apps, and top 10 free apps…
Ubuntu 11.10 Development Update
Ubuntu Development Update The Ubuntu 11.10 release is getting nearer and nearer. It’s time to start organising your local release party! Only five weeks left until release! So what’s still left to do in these five weeks? Obviously a few bugs still have to be fixed, but the gates are slowly closing: next week the [...]
Download of the Week: Coherence Plugin for Rhythmbox
To mix things up, this episode of Download of the Week will not feature an application or a game, but rather a plugin: rhythmbox-plugin-coherence.
Ubuntu Download of the Week: Neverputt
Neverputt is a 3D miniature golf game for 1-4 players. You are in the first-person hot-seat and must control the direction and velocity of the ball in order to be successful.
Whether you’d like to just relax and play a little putt-putt in peace, or challenge yourself with a bizarre combination of holes, Neverputt will not disappoint. It ships with seven different courses by default, ranging from easy to insanely difficult.
elementary Devs Show Off Slick-looking Calculator App
elementary developers have shown off a small slick-looking calculator utility perfectly matched to the Pantheon desktop experience.
Download of the Week: The Clockwork Man
The Clockwork Man is an artistic, hidden object game set in the Victorian Era with a strong Steampunk vibe.
And it’s our download of the week.
Download of the Week: Family Farm
Family Farm is a new arrival to the Software Center. Unlike the wildly successful Facebook game FarmVille, Family Farm is more of a simulation focusing on not just the advancement of the farm itself, but also the family unit that runs it.
Easyshutdown and Complexshutdown: two small apps for one job
Reader folkefiende mailed in asking why we don’t write something about ‘EasyShutdown’. Having never heard of this particular application before I decided to take a look…
Small ‘Timer’ Applet for Ubuntu’s Unity Launcher
Some of the most useful applications are often borne out of a personal need. Such as this ‘Tea Time’ application created specifically for Ubuntu Unity by rojtberg.
With Unity lacking support for ‘traditional gnome applets’, rojtberg had to find a different application. There are ‘indicator timers’ available – such as this one – but this wasn’t ideal for him.
‘Udev-notify’ provides Ubuntu notifications when connecting USB peripherals
Whilst the name of this app isn’t the most memorable, what it does is.
By default Ubuntu provides no feedback whether the connection of a peripheral device – such as a webcam or usb thumbdrive – has succeed or failed. Windows, for example, uses a set of audio notifications to relay such status.
udev-notify brings a similar functionality, albeit a visual one using Ubuntu’s Notification system, to your desktop.
Download of the Week: Hex-a-hop
Hex-a-hop is a simple yet fun little puzzle game where you take a little girl hopping across tiles in efforts to destroy all the green tiles on the board.
Brukkon is more involved and provides features such as movable bridges, different weather conditions, and disappearing tiles.
‘Daily Journal’ adds calendar-based note navigation
A new release of Daily Journal – the streamlined, fuss free application for marinating a daily log of your diet, life, or anything – has been made available.
Tomahawk media player adds PPA but not much else
I billed Tomahawk as a media player with potential after my first play with it last month, so when I heard that Tomahawk recently added a PPA for Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 users to install from I decided to check it out and see whether anything had changed.
Graphical ‘QR Code Creator’ app makes generating barcodes in Ubuntu even easier
A few days back we walked you through creating QR codes via the command line in Ubuntu.
Following that post a developer, David Green, put together a GUI front-end for the process, allowing for a more user-friendly experience in generating 2D barcodes.
‘Suspended Sentence’ becomes first post-release ARB app to land in Ubuntu
The first post-release application to be approved by the Application Review Board is now available to install from the Ubuntu 10.10 Software Centre.