Posts from September 2010

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How to use Ubuntu mono panel icons with other icon sets

Ever found a really beautiful icon set with some awful panel icons that shamed you into reverting to the default Ubuntu Humanity set? A reader by the name of bung was in the same fix: – So […]

8 September 2010
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PhotoStory – tell your life in pictures

Photostory is a small application for taking a daily snapshot of yourself using your webcam. The main draw over, say, simply reminding yourself to take a picture with Cheese is that Photostory is able collate […]

8 September 2010
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Audio Recorder Applet lets you record any audio from your sound card, microphone, more

Need something small and handy for recording soundcard audio? Audio Recorder Applet is, as the name implies, a recording applet for your GNOME panel. This small tool allows you to record audio from your system soundcard, microphones, browsers, webcams & more. Put simply. if it plays out of your speakers you can record it!

8 September 2010
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A neat collection of Linux-friendly add-ons that work with Firefox 4 beta

With the latest development versions of Firefox rocking out on more and more users desktops as it progressed the age old error of ‘add-on not compatible with your version of firefox’ is once again frustrating Joe and Janes around the world. Well, it needn’t. Read on to find out more.

8 September 2010
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DeaDBeeF Mono tray icons

DeaDBeeF may be a super light and increasingly popular music player choice amongst Ubuntu users but it still has a rather sucky tray icon by default. Worry ye not DeaDBeeF fans – a user by […]

8 September 2010
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Use command aliases for lazy terminal installing, purging & searching

This neat little tip was dropped off in our inbox by a reader called Darren – so thanks goes to him. Become a lazy geek “Fed up with typing ‘sudo apt-get install blahblah’, ‘apt-cache search […]

8 September 2010
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Choose the new CoverGloobus Icon [poll]

Jordi Hernàndez – creator of CoverGloobus (and dude with exceptionally good taste in music) – has opened the voting on the choice of new icon for the desktop music art application. We blogged about the […]

8 September 2010
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Firefox 4 Beta 5 available

You’ve probably heard it elsewhere first but the 5th beta release of Firefox 4 is now available to download, test and generally freak out over. There’s plenty to coo over in the release including a […]

8 September 2010
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Enable CoverFlow in Nautilus-Elementary for Maverick

Quick tip, courtesy of reader Dhananjay, for Maverick-using Nautilus-Elementary fans. “The latest nautilus revision from the bzr (ver. 108) has got back the good old clutterflow (coverflow )to elmenatry 2.31+ branch.” You need to compile […]

7 September 2010
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0.A.D seeking Open Source Development Manager – got what it takes?

The folks over at Wildfire games, the company behind the incredible open-source game 0.A.D are on the hunt for an Open Source development manager. Why? “We need someone to help facilitate and encourage open source […]

7 September 2010
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Mono icon themes for DockBarX

Looking for a new Mono-awesome DockBarX theme? Jan-Christoph Borchardt has just thing for you...

7 September 2010
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An urgent call for testing: Banshee 1.7.5 on Maverick

Given that Ubuntu aims to replace the default mediaplayer on the Ubuntu Netbook Edition with Banshee, Didier Roche has requested that the proud OMG army unleash their unspeakable powers of mass breakage on the newly promoted Banshee 1.7.5 package in Maverick.

7 September 2010