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Privacy Controls & Minor UI Tweaks Land in Ubuntu 12.04

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With Ubuntu 12.04 edging closer to its developmental deadlines many of the more visual features and changes are beginning to land in updates. Many of the latest changes, highlighted below, were expected, having previously been highlighted in a series of mock-ups by the Canonical design team. What’s New/Changed Category headers and dividers have been added to the System [...]

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Ubuntu One Online ‘Notes’ Feature To Be Removed in Feb

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Committed users of the ‘notes’ feature on the Ubuntu One website will want to make a note of ‘February 28th’ – it’s the date that the handy feature will be retired from the U1 web interface.

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Ubuntu One Team Seeking Mac Dev

A new job listing from Canonical is seeking a Mac Software Developer to join the Ubuntu One engineering team.

The opening, titled ‘Software Engineer (client applications Mac/Windows)’, will require applicants to have at least 5 years experience of developing on OS X, ‘including knowledge of low level APIs (Filesystem, shell integration)’, as well as experience in ‘Python, C and Objective C’.

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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 [...]

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Ubuntu One Files App Launches on iOS

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The Ubuntu One Files app is now available to install from the Apple App Store.

Ubuntu One Files gives on-the-go access to music, photos, files and folders stored in your Ubuntu One cloud.

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Ubuntu One Launch Music Web Streaming

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The Ubuntu One team have unveiled a new web streaming feature for the playback of stored music via a web browser. The feature, available to subscribers of the Ubuntu One Music package, is to compliment the Android and iOS music streaming applications already available. The web player can be accessed through the ‘Music’ tab on the [...]

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Ubuntu One Kills Bookmark Sync

Ubuntu One Bookmarks sync has been discontinued.

The feature, which allowed users to sync their Firefox Bookmarks across Ubuntu systems via the Ubuntu One service, is no longer offered in Ubuntu 11.10.

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Ubuntu One Sync App Released for Windows

The official Ubuntu One desktop client for Windows has been has released. Ubuntu One is the cloud-storage service from Canonical and installed by default in Ubuntu. All users are entitled to 5GB of free space, with additional space available to buy as needed. The launch of the Windows version will allow those dual-booting, or using Windows at [...]

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Unity Music Lens Adds Ubuntu One Music Store Searching

A recent update to the Music lens in Unity has added ‘scope’ for searching the Ubuntu One Music Store.

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Ubuntu One for Windows – A Quick Run Down Of Beta 2

The second beta of Ubuntu One’s native Windows client slipped out into the wild recently.

As an avid user of the Ubuntu One cloud storage service I just had to try it out…

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Interested In Developing Ubuntu One Apps? A Free Event Is Being Held to Help

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Application developers keen to learn more about creating applications based on or using Ubuntu One APIs are being invited to a free event hosted by Ubuntu One developer Stuart Langridge.

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Ubuntu One Music App Comes to iPhone

The Ubuntu One Music Streaming app for iPhone is now available for download.

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Chalk for Android Lets You Create, Sync Notes with Ubuntu One

Note taking applications for Android are not hard to find. A search of the Android market returns “at least 1000 results”.

So when reader Rich sent a link to an Ubuntu One-syncing notes app called ‘Chalk’ I hoped it was a little different.

Turns out it is.

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Ubuntu One Upgrades Free Storage to 5GB, Hits 1 Million Users

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Ubuntu One has increased the amount of free storage given to users of its basic plan from 2GB to 5GB.

The upgrade will be applied to all user accounts on the basic plan, which has been renamed ‘Ubuntu One Free’.

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