Posts from February 2012

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Qt Web Browser Qupzilla Improves SpeedDial, Adds New Features in Latest Release

Pop-up windows, external download management and the ‘Paste & Go’ support are just some of the new features present in the latest release of Qt browser Qupzilla. Other notable new stuff added to the lightweight […]

15 February 2012
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Ubuntu Sound Theme Shortlist Ready – You Help Pick the Winner

Four user-created sound themes have been shortlisted with a view to shipping as default in Ubuntu 12.04. It’s now up to you which of the four goes on to receive additional development. Thoughts, critique and […]

15 February 2012
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A Handful of Recent Ubuntu 12.04 Changes…

Ubuntu 12.04 has been gaining more visible UI changes in recent updates due to the looming ‘freezes’ on features and interface changes. Below I present a handful of the more ‘prominent’ visual changes that have […]

15 February 2012
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LibreOffice 3.5 Released

LibreOffice 3.5 has been released. It's the third major release of the free open-source office suite since the project was forked from OpenOffice.

14 February 2012
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Meet Open-Source eBook Editing/Publishing App ‘BookType’

A new open-source digital writing and publishing platform has been launched by non-profit group Sourcefabric. Booktype allows for collaborative editing and writing of books that can be easily outputted to on-demand print services and eReaders […]

14 February 2012
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Indie Game Lume Hits Linux via Indie Royale Bundle

The latest Indie Royale Bundle has been running for a few days and whilst 4/5's of the game on offer aren't available for Linux one is - and it's one that's worth mentioning.

14 February 2012
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German Magazine Wraps Up Ubuntu Switch Guides

As we mentioned last week, German magazine 'Der Spiegel' has been running a series of 'Getting started with Linux' articles on their website. Following on from the first article, which talked about the security benefits of Linux over Windows, come the final two parts.

14 February 2012
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Bisigi Themes Revived, GTK3 Ports Begin

The Bisigi themes project has been revived. The project created some of the most comprehensively designed GTK2 themes during its three active years but following the move by most major distributions to GTK3, the project wound down in November of last year.

14 February 2012
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Ubuntu 12.04 To Offer ‘Locally Integrated Menus’ Option?

Is Precise gearing up for another change to App Menu behaviour? Sort of. New code aimed at ‘the implementation of locally integrated menubars‘ has been proposed for ‘merging’ into Metacity, Unity, Light Themes and Compiz. […]

13 February 2012

OMG Interviews Valorie Zimmerman, Ubuntu women, Linux Grandma and Kubuntu Extraordinaire

Valorie has been a valuable contributor to the Kubuntu community and overall Free Open Source Software community for quite awhile and I had the privilege of meeting her last year at Community Leadership Summit and […]

13 February 2012
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GNOME’s New Lock Screen Design Goes Online

The tentative design proposal for the new GNOME lock screen has been published online. The designs, created by Novell's Jakub Steiner and published on the GNOME Design Wiki, take cues from the lock-screens of smartphones by remaining semi-useful when locked (displays big clock, message notifications, music controller).

12 February 2012
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[How To] Try Firefox’s New Speed Dial Page in Ubuntu

It's been a long time coming but Mozilla are prepping the release of 'new tab speed-dial' to ship in Firefox 13. The feature has been in nightly builds of the browser for a few weeks but has just been pushed to the 'Aurora channel' builds so that wider feedback can be sought.

12 February 2012