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MiniTube Updated With YouTube Fix, Drag And Drop Feature

YouTube app 'MiniTube' has been updated witha fix for a recent change by YouTube that 'broke' playback on the Flash-free desktop app.

7 August 2011
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Disney to Produce Penguin Film… Called ‘Tux’.

Deadline.com are reporting that Disney have hired Night At The Museum writer Robert Ben Garant to pen an animated feature about a talking Penguin called, you guessed it, 'Tux'.

5 August 2011
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Lubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 Released

Lubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 has been released. As a development release Lubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 is not recommended for everyday use or installation on systems with important data (like your list to Santa, your best […]

5 August 2011

Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 3 Released

The third alpha release of the Ubuntu 11.10 development cycle has been made available for download.

4 August 2011
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Adobe Edge for Linux? That’d Be Nice…

With Adobe this week announcing a new HTML5 design tool for web developers and creatives, many folk are wondering whether this could, finally, be the start of official Adobe application support on Linux.

4 August 2011
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Ubuntu 11.10 Adds Options to Change Launcher Opacity, Hide Mounted Drives, More

Further to Jorge and Ahmed's excellent Unity and in-depth update on recent Unity developments (the post below this one!) here are a handful of screenshots showing off many of the visible changes and options that have appeared in Ubuntu 11.10 over the last few days.

4 August 2011
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Unity Progress Report: More, more, more

This is a guest post from Ahmed Kamal and Jorge O. Castro, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks (Original Post) This week the Unity team has still been concentrating on feature […]

4 August 2011
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Web-browser Midori Adds Unity Support and Neat ‘Next Page’ Feature,

Unity support is one of several changes making up the latest release of lightweight web browser Midori. Screenshots and installation information are tucked inside.

4 August 2011

Unity Facebook App Adds Muti-photo Uploads and Easier Installation

Multiple photo uploading and easier installation feature in the latest release of Facebook Unity applet 'Faccialibro'. Also fixed is a bug that prevented some users from running the applet properly.

3 August 2011
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Schizobird Twitter App Renamed ‘Polly’

Last week the developer of Schizobird' sought the help of OMG! Ubuntu! readers in choosing a new name for his Twitter app. The post in question received over 247 comments pretty much overnight. Nestled amongst all of the sane, and not so sane, suggestions was one clear winner...

3 August 2011
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Condensed Variant of Ubuntu Font Debuts

A condensed varient of theUbuntu Font Family was uploaded to the Private testing PPA yesterday. The condensed font is provided in one weight, 'regular', and is provided without an accompanying italic.

2 August 2011
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Action Shooter ‘Steel Storm: Burning Retribution’ added to Humble Indie Bundle 3

As if paying whatever you want for 5 Linux friendly games wasn't tempting enough the Humble Indie Bundle 3 has added a sixth game to tempt: top-down action shooter 'Steel Storm: Burning Retribution'.

2 August 2011