Posts from March 2010

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Guayadeque’s New Icon Is… [Poll Result]

A few weeks ago we teamed up with promising new music player Guaydeque to help find them an awesome new icon that better represented their application. After an initial call for designs, twelve made the […]

9 March 2010
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Weather Forecast Plugin For Emesene

Emesene Weather plug-in, perhaps not surprisingly, is a weather forecast plug-in for IM client Emesene. The plug-in inserts a basic weather forecast pane at the very bottom of the contact list window. The forecast displayed […]

9 March 2010
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Simple GRUB Theming Script [Updated]

Bored with how GRUB looks? Well if you don’t have the nerves to try total boot pimper BURG, the following simple script will help beautify your boot. The following simple script dolls up your GRUB […]

8 March 2010
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Screenshot App Shutter adds ‘redo last capture’, makes bloggers’ lives everywhere easier

Shutter will be gaining a new ‘redo last capture’ tool in its next major release. The feature, already available in the ‘experimental’ branch allows a user to takes exactly the same screenshot again and again […]

8 March 2010
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Lucidity theme finally gets a GTK

Lucidity was a proposed theme for Ubuntu 10.04 but despite being only a mock-up it proved so popular with users that a Metacity based on it soon sprang forth. Now a GTK+ theme to match […]

8 March 2010
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Docky Gets ‘Show Desktop’ Docklet

Janet Jackson once sang “The best things in life are free” – which makes me wonder whether she was a closet Linux user! Docky is an example of something amazing yet free. Docky has gotten […]

8 March 2010
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OpenShot 1.1 Released – Gets Undo/Redo, New effects, Will be in Ubuntu 10.04!

OpenShot – OMG! Ubuntu!’s favourite video editor for Linux – released a new version today. Version 1.1 brings with it a buffet of new features, speed improvements and general all round greatness that we’ve come […]

8 March 2010
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Docky finally removed from GNOME Do

GNOME Do developer Alex Launi announced this morning that, finally, Do and Docky are now separate applications. When we broke the news that Docky and GNOME Do were to split, back in October of last […]

8 March 2010
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Choqok Releases New Beta – Adds Twitpic, Better timelines, more

Earlier today we wrote about Twitter application Pino getting updated and today sees it joined by a new beta release of premier KDE twitter application ‘Choqok’. The main new features in this version are: – […]

7 March 2010
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Pino 0.2.1 Released – Adds Follow/Unfollow, uSer info,

Twitter application Pino has graced the world with yet another update. Version 0.2.1 of the every-improving microblogging client sees it gain user look-up and information tools as well as chucking in the ability to follow […]

7 March 2010
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Nautilus-Elementary: Where’s it going? To Awesome-ville, that’s where.

Further to our in-depth look at the Future of Nautilus a week back, the Nautilus-Elementary team – who we cited heavily in that previous article – have posted their own plans for the unkempt file-manager. […]

6 March 2010
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6 Desktop Fonts to try in Ubuntu

A fresh install of Ubuntu yields one annoyance that seems to irritate most people: the default ‘Sans’ font is set at a gigantic 10px. The effect of having the font so large is evident from […]

6 March 2010