Posts from June 2010

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What do you love/hate about Ubuntu?

I’m interested to see what you guys think the biggest selling points, and the biggest issues are in Ubuntu right now. I use Ubuntu because it’s fast, reliable, secure, pretty and safe. It lets me […]

4 June 2010
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Set your Desktop, GDM & Plymouth wallpaper as the same image

Want your desktop, GDM background & Plymouth boot image to match? Using gargantuo‘s Global Wallpaper script you can easily do so. Download Download the script @ gnome-look.org Installation Extract the archive Open a terminal and […]

3 June 2010
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Ubuntu Mono Icon for Screenlets

MadnessRed mailed me with his tip on how to make a mono-panel matching Screenlets icon. You take this .svg by Darkhaseo and change the colour from ‘606060’ to ‘EAD3D0’ via your preferred medium (gedit is quickest). For […]

3 June 2010
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Rhythmbox’s new icon – whether a mistake or real, I hope it stays.

There may not be many differences ‘on the surface’ in Maverick’s first alpha, but I couldn’t help but notice one visual change -a new Rhythmbox icon. How much nicer is that than the ‘current’ icon? […]

3 June 2010
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Celebrate Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha with these awesome Meerkat-inspired Wallpapers

Whether you intend to download and install Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 or not  the following meerkat-themed wallpapers will certainly get you in the Maverick-y mood. Made by the super talented Joern, whom you can find […]

3 June 2010
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Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 Released

The first Alpha of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has been made available for download. This is the first of four Alpha releases before the 10.10 beta in September. As to be expected so close after […]

3 June 2010
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Smokescreen converts flash into HTML5/JavaScript

Alternative solutions for playing Flash content online seems to be all the rage these days. There are many open source projects that aim to provide a free ‘flash’ player, such as Gnash and Lightspark, but […]

3 June 2010
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New Elementary Icon Theme for Empathy

Talented designer MastroPino strikes again; yesterday we featured his wonderful Elementary Pidgin theme and today we’re excited to share with you his equally-sublime Empathy theme. I much prefer Empathy over pidgin but hate the default […]

3 June 2010
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Cardapio – alternative Gnome panel menu, launcher & so much more

Bored of your regular applications menu? Swap it out with Cardápio- a panel applet menu replacement with plenty of features up its sleeve. It allows full access to all of your installed applications and system options […]

3 June 2010
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DockBarX Adds live thumbnail previews

The popular window grouping and manipulation applet DockBarX has added support for live window thumbnails – not unlike that offered in Windows 7. It does this by making use of the KDE compatibility plugin available in Compiz, […]

2 June 2010
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New Doctor Who game works via Wine

As part of this years Doctor Who series the BBC are launching a set of 4 free fully interactive downloadable adventure games (referred to as ‘episodes’) for UK viewers (and those who like proxies). The […]

2 June 2010
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Confirmed: Chrome OS Will Launch in the Autumn

Confirming the long-rumoured general release date, Google has announced that its new Chrome OS will be released in the Autumn (or fall, to American readers). For those of you unfamiliar with Chrome OS, it is […]

2 June 2010