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Tomahawk update lets you play tracks from friends libraries, more

The latest update to cross-platform media player 'Tomahawk' slipped out for Ubuntu without much in the way of fanfare. But from the improvements and new features that came with it fanfare was wholly deserved...

9 June 2011
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More screenshots of Desura for Linux appear

Further progress on the Linux port of indie-game service 'Desura' has been shown off by Desura's Linux engineer Keith Poole.

8 June 2011
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Chrome 12 brings Unity Global Menu support – and here’s how to enable it

Google released the latest stable update to their Google Chrome browser earlier today, bringing with it a handful of features exclusive to Ubuntu users...

8 June 2011
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Linux music app ‘DeaDBeeF’ comes to Android – but is it any good?

Popular lightweight music player 'DeaDBeeF' recently launched an Android version. Is it much cop? I find out...

8 June 2011
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‘Classicmenu indicator’ puts old-school GNOME menus in Unity

Long for the familiar trappings of the ‘classic’ GNOME menus in Ubuntu Unity? With ClassicMenu Indicator you can have just that. ClassicMenu Indicator is currently in alpha but it works pretty much as it should. […]

8 June 2011
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Unity Community Contributor plans for 11.10

For Ubuntu 11.04 we made an effort to make Unity easy to contribute to, so that anyone who wanted to participate could help out and help drive the development of Unity forward. During UDS in Budapest, Hungary, we had a session on how we're going to improve this program. As luck would have it this was a video'ed session, and what you'll read in this post is a result of that session and some other feedback from people.

7 June 2011
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Thunderbird 5 hits beta, gets PPA

The first beta release of Thunderbird 5, the next version of Mozilla's desktop e-mail application, has been made available for testing.

7 June 2011
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This ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Ubuntu desktop is gorgeous and simple to achieve

Is your desktop in need of a makeover? The following desktop by DeviantArtist ~votritis, called 'Stairway to heaven', might be just what you're after...

7 June 2011
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Quickly kill rogue apps in Ubuntu using Indicator-Forceclose

Crashy apps hanging around chomping on your resources? Kill it quickly with the newly formed 'Indicator-Forceclose'.

7 June 2011
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Download of the Week: The Clockwork Man

The Clockwork Man is an artistic, hidden object game set in the Victorian Era with a strong Steampunk vibe. And it's our download of the week.

6 June 2011

Hardware monitor applet ‘Indicator Systemload’ updates, adds real-time stats to menu

Nifty system resouce monitor 'Indicator Mulitload' has received a minor update, adding detailed live-updated system stats into the applet menu.

6 June 2011
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GNOME 3 ‘Adwaita’ theme for Firefox

A new GNOME 3 'Adwaita' theme for Firefox 4 has been made available for download.

6 June 2011
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Dapper Drake finally dies, Lernid gets a new release and Skype gets reverse engineered

It's a new week, but I'm behind. Here are a couple of things I never got around to mentioning last week...

6 June 2011
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Zeitgeist news round up: Security, data sources and timey-wimey stuff

What's been happening in the Zeitgeist project of late? Let's take a quick look...

5 June 2011
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Help Compiz rockstar Sam Spilsbury squash the annoying invisible window bug…

In spite of best efforts, a weird bug in compiz causing windows to 'become invisible' is still haunting the users. Here is how you can help fix it.

5 June 2011
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[How to] Access Ubuntu Files When In Windows

'Ext2explore' allows you to browse a Linux partition - be it Ext2, ext3 or ext4 - from within Windows, giving you the options to 'save' any files needed to a location of your choosing within Windows.

5 June 2011
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RSS applet ‘Feed Indicator’ fixes browser opening bug

A bug in panel-bound RSS applet 'Feed Indicator' which saw feed items open in a users browser just by hovering over them has been fixed in its most recent update released this weekend.

5 June 2011
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[Video] Ubuntu Developer Portal gets previewed

One of the many criticisms that the Ubuntu Software Centre has come under since its launch is how difficult it's been to get paid, commercial applications submitted for inclusion in the Paid Apps section. Ever since we released Volley Brawl a couple of months ago, I've had numerous emails from publishers and developers asking me "how on earth did you do that?! We've been trying to contact Canonical for months now to get [game] into the Software Center to no avail." Thankfully it's a problem Canonical are all to aware of, so they've been working on a Developer Portal similar to that of the Android Market or iOS App Store. Developers or publishers can submit their app, add a title, description, price, category and more.

4 June 2011