All articles by Benjamin Humphrey

Interface Designer, OMG! Ubuntu! tech journalist and co-founder, Google and Ubuntu fanboy, part time musician, private pilot, geek. @humphreybc on Twitter.

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Cardapio menu applet gets web search and preferences

Our favourite alternative to the main Ubuntu menu applet has received an update today which makes it easier to configure settings and also includes a new plugin to perform Google searches right from your desktop! The new […]

12 June 2010
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Many hands make the light work; few make it shine

Ubuntu lives in a special place between Windows and Mac OS X reserved only for Linux: more shine than Windows, less than OS X, resulting in a steaming pile of mediocrity. Since I’ve been involved in the Ubuntu […]

7 June 2010
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Quirky Wallpaper: Live Earth wallpaper

This could be you! I love space, and, more specifically I love space wallpapers as my wallpaper. During exam time (like now) I usually set some motivational wallpaper like “Get the hell off Facebook and […]

6 June 2010
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Y’know what would be cool? A Google panel applet

A GNOME panel applet to search the internet and local files, that sits in your panel like the one in Unity would be awesome, but I can’t find one for the life of me. I’ve […]

6 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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Boxee – Kickass streaming media right on your TV

Boxee was demoed at UDS with the hopes of getting it into the main Ubuntu repositories, and I say rock on! It’s an amazingly polished home media center running Linux that allows you to stream media […]

28 May 2010
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Lend a helping hand to a Zeitgeist developer in need

Seif Lotfy is a fun-loving Zeitgeist and Elementary hacker at large who is a bit low on funds, like most people. Unfortunately he’s *so* poor that he can’t even afford a laptop to work on […]

26 May 2010
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Brussels, beer, Ubuntu and boys taking a leak

Between the 10th and the 14th May, 2010, I hit up the lovely country of Belgium to attend the Ubuntu Developers Summit for the Maverick Meerkat release. I was one of 60 lucky people from […]

25 May 2010
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Show us ya bugs – win a printed copy of the Ubuntu Manual

In an effort to produce a 100% error-free manual for Lucid 2nd edition and beyond, we want to run a bug-squashing competition called “Show us ya bugs!” It’s really simple and goes a little something […]

23 May 2010
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What it’s like at UDS, video

What’s it like at an Ubuntu Developer Summit? Luckily I got a hold of a high definition Canonical video camera thanks to Amber Graner and the folks doing the video stuff for UDS. Let me […]

19 May 2010
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Manual Fever!

Heads up everyone, those obsolete, dusty things you never look at are coming back into fashion in the Ubuntu world!  Manual fever is gripping Ubuntu community teams all over the world as everyone starts to […]

14 May 2010
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Jorge Castro acts like a dork; demos U1MS beer

There are no words to describe this. Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

14 May 2010