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I've been meaning to review the new-developer orientated app 'Illumination Software Centre' for the last fortnight but just haven't found time. It seems that doesn't matter now, as for a limited time you can buy the software for whatever you want and form your own opinion...
A new unstable snapshot of Image Editing programme 'The Gimp' has been released.
GNOME developer Raluca has been working on bringing the cool video effects from webcam app 'Cheese' over to Empathy's video chat window.
Cross-platform app launcher 'Launchy' might be a helpful tool for getting things done quickly but the default theme it ships with doesn't look all that great in Ubuntu. Thankfully we have a solution - Ubuntu user Maxime has created both an Ambiance and Radiance theme for the utility. And they look great...
The elementary team have announced the first public release of 'Switchboard', a centralised hub for configuring system settings on the elementary OS desktop.
My favourite 'app' of the moment is Unity Mail - a small Unity Launcher-based app that tells you how many unread messages you have in your GMail inbox.
Does Unity Launcher integration for Totem sound helpful? If so then you're in luck...
Note taking applications for Android are not hard to find. A search of the Android market returns "at least 1000 results". So when reader Rich sent a link to an Ubuntu One-syncing notes app called 'Chalk' I hoped it was a little different. Turns out it is.
We’ve featured many Drag and Drop applets for Ubuntu’s Unity Launcher over the past few weeks, but this is the first one to support uploading to YouTube. The applet is by Tom LeJeune, whose Google+/Picasa […]
Several weeks back we translated a handy Unity Quicklist for Google+ by László Torma. That Quicklist is now even better, Google+heads. Credit goes to Chris Druif, who has enhanced the launcher item by adding in 'drag and drop' Photo uploading to Picasa Web Albums. Photos, depending on your privacy settings for the folder you choose to upload to, will also show up on your Google+ account.
To mix things up, this episode of Download of the Week will not feature an application or a game, but rather a plugin: rhythmbox-plugin-coherence.
YouTube app 'MiniTube' has been updated witha fix for a recent change by YouTube that 'broke' playback on the Flash-free desktop app.