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LibreOffice Ubuntu PPA makes installation easy

Want to easily try out the latest development builds of OpenOffice-fork LibreOffice? Well now you can thanks to a dedicated LibreOffice packaging PPA for Ubuntu users.

2 January 2011
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Minimal GNOME-panel replacement ‘Wingpanel’ gets a PPA [Updated]

Ever wanted to try the sexy Wingpanel but were scared of building from source? A noble soul by the name of Taylor "Ripps" LeMasurier-Wren has created a PPA for us to use.

2 January 2011
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Offline Ubuntu update tool ‘Keryx’ hits 1.0 release

Offline Ubuntu update utility Keryx has been updated with UI improvements, new features and lots more.

2 January 2011
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Video: Gwibber’s new look interface ‘posting box’

Oh Gwibber - where art thou? It feels an age since we last mentioned anything related to Gwibber but, thankfully, there's a reason for that.

2 January 2011
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Bodhi Linux hits Alpha 4, gets ace new look

The Enlightenment-based Linux distro 'Bodhi Linux' hit Alpha 4 recently - so what's new? Take a look!

2 January 2011
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Official Ubuntu keyboard for sale… with a Windows key?

A new officially branded waterproof keyboard has gone on sale in the Canonical store - albeit one with what appears to be a Windows key.

2 January 2011
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Activity Journal getting a new View

I am blessed with some amazing team. The magnificent Cando just finished a new view for Activity Journal.

31 December 2010
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dmedia 0.2 ‘Feature Frenzy’ sees the light of the day

The 0.2 version of dmedia (codnamed 'Feature Frenzy'), the storage component of Novacut Video Editor, has been released right according to the schedule. Geeky bits follow with a sneak peek of the first iteration of the UI.

30 December 2010
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Integrate Wine in Ubuntu with ‘Vineyard’

Decent Wine integration in Ubuntu is something many of us would love to have - and we can thanks to an application called 'Vineyard'. Vineyard provides two useful features: firstly it provides a native way to configure Wine and Wine preferences and secondly it creates tight integration between Wine and the Ubuntu desktop.

29 December 2010
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‘Single window’ GIMP release delayed – but why?

GIMP 2.8, a.k.a. 'the one with single window mode', won't see release on December 26th as planned. But why? Read on to see.

29 December 2010
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Skype Zeitgeist logger under development

Check out this Skype zeitgeist logger I have been working on.

29 December 2010
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More details emerge on ‘mystery’ Ubuntu tablet

More information has surfaced on the new Ubuntu-powered tablet device we wrote about last week. The ‘TENQ P07’ tablet aims to launch early next year an will sport Ubuntu 10.10 atop an 1.6Ghz Atom CPU, […]

28 December 2010