Section: Download

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AppImage thumbnailer gets PPA

We’re big fans of the AppImage project – the distro-agnostic application packaging method that allows applications to run on any distribution with no installation required – so we’re thrilled to learn that ‘App Thumbnailer’ – […]

23 August 2010
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Ubuntu One KDE Alpha available

Ubuntu One gets a revamp for the Kubuntu desktop thanks to Harald Sitter’s Google Summer of Code project. We briefly mentioned the proposal to mash Ubuntu One awesomeness with KDE tech back in April when […]

20 August 2010
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Install the Mint Menu in Ubuntu

Hands up if you’ve ever seen Ubuntu-based Linux Mint’s rather slick menu? Keep you hands up if you’ve ever wanted to install it in Ubuntu? Wow. That’s a lot of hands! Thankfully KdotJ over on the Ubuntu […]

19 August 2010
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iX – Ubuntu-based OS for iPhone / iPod Touch

Running a custom version of Ubuntu on your iPhone or iPod Touch may sound crazy but it’s yet another example of the versatile and adaptable nature of Linux as a whole. Now, If your first […]

16 August 2010
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New Ubuntu Light themes land in Maverick

Just a quick heads up to Maverick testers and early adopters – the new-look Ubuntu Light themes are due to land in Ubuntu 10.10 any second. You need only run an update to receive them. […]

12 August 2010
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Periodic Table Wallpaper – A Lot Cooler Than it Sounds

If your life has been lacking a well designed, slighty humorous but oh-so informative Peridoic Table wallpaper then say hello to this Nobel-ium (no really, that is the best pun I can do.) slice of pixel perfect. […]

11 August 2010
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Open-Source flash alternative LightSpark final released

Lightspark 0.4.3 final has been released, coming a mere two days after the first release candidate. In the official announcement the developers state that “A couple of interesting features as been added since the RC […]

10 August 2010
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Faenza icon set gets a PPA

Quick heads up to something I forgot to mention before – the very slick Faenza icon set now has a PPA, making it easy to stay up-to-date with the latest additions to the square-y icon […]

10 August 2010
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Lightspark Release Candidate brings faster rendering, better memory consumption

The first release candidate of open-source flash alternative LightSpark 0.4.3 has been released. Faster rendering, reduced memory consumption and smoother video playback are some of the notable changes present in this release. Installation Ubuntu users will […]

9 August 2010
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Install Opera Mobile in Ubuntu (.deb)

A few days back we covered how to run Opera Mini – the super tiny mobile web browser from Opera – in Ubuntu. Today we’re looking at installing and using Opera Mobile – the larger, […]

8 August 2010
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‘A new start’ GTK theme – looks everybit as cool as it sounds

‘A new start’ GTK theme looks, from the word go, pretty much unlike anything else you’ve tried before. An aptly titled theme that has that oh-so aloof quality of actually being able to totally transform […]

7 August 2010
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Safely remove USB drives using a nifty application indicator (updated with new icon)

I love application indicators and I also love yanking out my USB drives without properly ejecting them. These two passions have meet each other in a nifty new application indicator by developer Eugeny Pankov. The tiny app has been […]

4 August 2010