Posts from March 2010

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Sync Your iPhone/iPod Touch With Ubuntu 9.10

If you’ve got an iPhone or an iPod Touch you may routinely smash your head against it when trying to sync it with Ubuntu 9.10. Previous hack-arounds have required the patience of a saint and […]

4 March 2010
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Worried Ubuntu 10.04 will have left-hand side controls? You needn’t be

Dustin Kirkland posted some more screenshots of the forthcoming Ubuntu themes and they show the window controls back where most users feel they belong – the right-hand side. Panic alleviated. Picture credit: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2010/03/ubuntus-new-themes-and-byobu.html

4 March 2010
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Empathy Gets New Default theme for Ubuntu 10.04 (And it looks familiar…)

It’s the IM client everyone loves to hate but for all its perceived shortcomings Empathy remains a perfectly usable and roundly featured application – hence why it’s default! For Ubuntu 10.04 Empathy gains a new […]

3 March 2010
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Ubuntu Gets New Themes, Logo, Boot Screen, Indentity and So Much More!

Over a week ago we revealed that a big announcement regrading the re-branding of Ubuntu was imminent. That announcement has now been made – but even we didn’t expect it to be quite as big […]

3 March 2010
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17 Featured Applications in Ubuntu 10.04 Software Center – But are they wise Choices?

A few days ago we asked you which applications you would choose to be “featured” application on the shelves of the Ubuntu 10.04 Software Center. Since then the list has swelled from a meagre 4 […]

3 March 2010
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"50% of Banshee Users run it full screen" and other interesting* Banshee facts

Banshee 1.5.4 was released last week with some shiny new features and a handful of new functions – including equaliser presets, extra shuffle modes and, notably, an opt-in usage data collector thingy. Gabriel Burt, a […]

3 March 2010
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MeMaker – Make A Mini You In Ubuntu

MeMaker is an easy to use avatar creation program for Linux. Aside from being fun to play about with, the avatars created can be easily saved, exported to your Launchpad account for use as your […]

3 March 2010
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UbuntuOne Music Store – Value for money?

With 7Digital powering the forthcoming UbuntuOne Music Store thoughts will invariably turn to pricing. How much will a track cost? What about an album? Is it cheaper than iTunes? I take a little stroll through […]

3 March 2010
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QuickShot – from a sketch to an application in 3 weeks.

There’s an old saying “Use the right tool for the job” – common-sense advice that applies to pretty much any situation – especially in Software. But what happens when the ‘right tools for the job’ […]

3 March 2010

Here’s What the New Ubuntu One Music Store Looks Like

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (or not reading this blog regularly, which is something you should address) you will have heard that a new Ubuntu-branded music store is in the works. To date, […]

3 March 2010
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Next Ubuntu Developer Summit to be held in Belgium

Ubuntu community leader Jono Bacon has just announced the location of the next Developer Summit. The location? Brussels, Belgium. The Ubuntu Developer Summit – or UDS as it’s more commonly referred to – is one […]

2 March 2010
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gThumb to be default image editor in Ubuntu Netbook Edition

gThumb is to be included in Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition as the default image editor F-Spot, the default image editor in regular Ubuntu, was removed from the UNE live-cd only a few days ago. The […]

2 March 2010