Posts from August 2009

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Gwibber 2.0 Preview Available To Download

The first public version of Gwibber 2.0 has been released on the Gwibber daily-builds PPA. Gwibber is an open-source microblogging client for the Gnome desktop that allows you to read, post and follow status updates […]

29 August 2009

Ubuntu ‘App Center’ Renamed ‘Ubuntu Software Store’

Canonical yesterday unveiled the Ubuntu Software Store, finally giving a name, and a face, to the integration of Add/Remove, Synaptic, and other package tools due in the upcoming release of Karmic Koala. Tech site Phoronix showed off […]

28 August 2009
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New Version Of Skype Released For Linux

Skype 2.1 Beta was released for Linux yesterday brining with it a host of new and improved features ” including PulseAudio support! The last version of Skype for Linux was released over a year ago, […]

28 August 2009
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Automount NTFS/Windows Partitions in Ubuntu In One Click

Auto-mounting NTFS / Windows Partitions in Ubuntu is actually really easy. It’s great, for example, if you have a partition you share between Windows and Linux with files on. Set NTFS/Windows Partitions To Auto-Mount 1. […]

28 August 2009
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10 Features & Changes in Ubuntu 9.10 You May Not Know About…

Ubuntu 9.10 has been in development for the pas 4 months, ahead of its release in October. Below, I list of 10 features and changes on the way that you may not yet know about… […]

27 August 2009

‘Caffeine’ For Linux Is a Handy App To Delay Screensaver/Suspend

Caffeine is a “status bar application able to temporarily prevent the activation of both the screensaver and the “sleep” power-saving mode.” The developer also words it another way: – Caffeine is a tiny cup of […]

27 August 2009
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Ubuntu 9.10 Artwork Drop Brings Four New Themes, Two New Icon Sets

Today saw Ubuntu’s first “Artwork Drop” for Karmic Koala. Despite there being no official ‘artwork’ released from Ubuntu’s Design team as of yet, the community side of the artwork submission has been quite prolific. Of […]

27 August 2009
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Karmic’s Proposed Boot Screen Tweaked Again…

Ubuntu 9.10’s proposed splash and log-in screens have, once again, undergone minor revisions. This time they’ve swapped out the warm tones of version 2 for a steely ‘purple’ colour – reminiscent of the first iteration. […]

26 August 2009
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10 Ubuntu Themed Wallpapers

10 Ubuntu Themed Wallpapers for your Ubuntu desktop. Ubuntu Text by Treyisrad Download Destroy Ubuntu by lukeroberts Download Plain Ubuntu by [unknown] [click image to download] Ubuntu by snn-engn Download Ubuntu Metal by fibermarupok Download […]

26 August 2009
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New Video Editor For Ubuntu

OpenShot is an new non-linear video editor similar in feature set to ‘Windows Movie Maker’ or Apple’s ‘iMovie’. Although currently in development, the latest release is surprisingly stable and comes with a raft of features […]

26 August 2009
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5 Rhythmbox Plugins You Should Install

Rhythmbox ships with many popular plug-ins already installed – such as lastfm scrobble support, visualizations, DAAP music sharing and iPod support, but you can expand Rhythmbox’s features further with third party plug-ins that range from […]

25 August 2009
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Desktop Blog Editor For Ubuntu

Bilbo is a desktop blog editor for Linux that supports many online blog services including Blogger (Blogspot), WordPress, MovableType and MetaWeblog. It features a full featured WYSIWYG editor and an HTML editor as well as […]

25 August 2009