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Ubuntu Ads Start Appearing Online

Official online advertising promoting Ubuntu has begun to appear online.

5 March 2012
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Qt Twitter App Choqok Refreshes Toolbar, Timeline

A new toolbar providing quick access to main features is one of the changes in the latest release of Qt Twitter app Choqok.

5 March 2012
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HUD Lands in Unity 2D

The feature parity between Ubuntu and its Qt counterpart Unity 2D shrinks ever smaller with the arrival of Precise's flagship 'HUD' feature introduced to Unity 2D.

5 March 2012
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This Tardis PC Case Demands An OS Befitting The Doctor

For a Doctor Who fan like myself there is no better way to kick off a new week at OMG! towers than by pimping what is, in my biased eyes, the best PC case I've seen in a long time.

5 March 2012

10 Wallpapers from the Ubuntu 12.04 Contest Pool

We're edging every closer to the decision date for the Ubuntu wallpaper contest - the date at which a dozen or so user-contributed wallpapers will be packaged up and shipped by default in Ubuntu 12.04 for 20 million users to gawp at. I trawled through the hundreds of submissions already entered into the competition to pull out 10 drapes I think are pretty special. Whether or not they make it into Ubuntu itself will be said later this month, but they nevertheless remain beautiful wallpapers worthy of covering your desktop in.

3 March 2012
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Lazy Saturday? Help Gwibber & Kazam Hunt Bugs

The Ubuntu Global Jam – a weekend-long session of community activities to help improve Ubuntu – wraps up tomorrow, but if you feel a bit left out of activities here’s your chance to contribute. The […]

3 March 2012
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Ubuntu Design: Micro, Macro

Ubuntu Precise, the “pixel perfect” release is in beta with release on the horizon. It's been two long years since Lucid and we are really seeing the evidence of that time being well spent. But just how well?

1 March 2012
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Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 Released

The first beta release of the Ubuntu 12.04 development cycle is now available to download. Keeping to the mantra of 'polish, performance and predictability', Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 offers up a stable and usable desktop, a faster Unity experience, and a handful of neat new features. A second beta candidate is due out in 28 days time, March 29th, with the final release itself expected to pop out on April 26th.

1 March 2012
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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 15

Development Update Today marks the transition of Ubuntu 12.04 from Alpha Testing into the first phase of Beta Testing as Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 is released. Nicholas Skaggs has a number of items you can […]

1 March 2012
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[How To] File a Bug in Ubuntu

Ubuntu is not perfect. It crashes, breaks and bugs out on us – often at the worst of times. But as talented as many developers are they are not psychic. In order for issues to […]

29 February 2012

£25 Raspberry Pi PC Sells Out in Minutes

Raspberry Pi – a £25 computer – went on sale this morning and sold out within minutes. The credit-card sized device sports a 700MHz ARMv6 CPU, a GPU with enough grunt to decode 1080p HD video, […]

29 February 2012
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KDE Twitter App Choqok Asks What You Want to See Changed, Added and Improved

Users of Qt Twitter client Choqok now have the chance to tell developers what they want to see added and improved in the app.

27 February 2012