Posts from April 2010

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Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 Released

The second, and final, beta release of Ubuntu 10.04 has been released. Whilst major new features or drastic changes are now a thing of the past, the beta still brings with it improvements all round, […]

8 April 2010
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Help ubuntu: 3 questions on Bluetooth

MPT from Canonical’s design team e-mailed us earlier asking if we could post the following questions regarding Bluetooth in Ubuntu to get your feedback. Given the design team totally surpassed even already-high expectations in creating […]

8 April 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Won’t Use Yahoo! As Default Search Engine After All

Canonical has reversed its earlier decision to set Yahoo! as the default search engine in Firefox for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. The Lucid Lynx will, as in previous releases, ship with Google set as the default […]

7 April 2010
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And the new gedit logo is…

Very “DTP”. Big improvement on their now-depreciated logo however. Designed by Henry Peters. Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

7 April 2010
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Official ubuntu 10.04 countdown banners available

Official Ubuntu 10.04 countdown banners are now available. The 3 designs, created by John Baer, Immanuel Peratoner & Amanda Warzecha respectively, are perfect displayed on blogs and website as well as being a handy reminder […]

7 April 2010
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Handy Docky crash script Makes the bleeding edge Mum-proof!

If, like many, you enjoy being on the bleeding edge of Docky’s development you’ll more often than not find it crashes and/or hangs. Sometimes this requires you to manually kill it in-order to relaunch it. […]

6 April 2010
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Lyrebird renames to Nightingale; Songbird for Linux lives on

Songbird for Linux, whilst officially no-longer supported, will continue to live on thanks to a community driven effort. The project, which was originally titled Lyrebird, finally has a definitive new name: Nightingale. Very apt. The […]

6 April 2010
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Stunning Ubuntu Logo Panel icon coming to desktop?

The screenshot above was sent to me by OMG! reader Dave and shows the new Ubuntu logo finally being used within Ubuntu itself. The Netbook Edition/Remix has typically been the first to show off some […]

6 April 2010
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Now that looks familiar: Buttons switch to their final ordering in Lucid

Now that looks a bit more familiar…   Yes, just as Mark Shuttleworth announced in his ‘Buttons staying left, but order changing’ announcement, Ubuntu 10.04’s buttons have finally positioned themselves where they intend to stay […]

5 April 2010
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mind control support may be coming to compiz

Always feared that controlling Compiz with the power of thought alone was something only available for Jedi’s and Sylar from Heroes? Think again. (Bad pun. BAD pun.) Kristopher Ives over at santiance.com is going to […]

5 April 2010
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Emesene 1.6.1 released; still the best msn client for linux

The latest, and likely last, version of MSN messaging ‘clone’ Emesene 1.x has been released. We’ve raved on and on and on and on about Emesene in the past and for good reason. If you’re […]

5 April 2010
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Is Gwibber getting a new icon?

Not definite but it is indeed curious that the Gwibber twitter avatar has been replaced with this shiny new icon: – The icon isn’t that far removed from the current icon either: – It still […]

4 April 2010