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GNOME Declares War on Minor Bugs With ‘Every Detail Matters’ Project

GNOME's Allan Day has announced the launch of a new development project aimed at fixing 'the small bugs [in GNOME] that ..undermine the overall experience.'

1 December 2011

Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1 Released

The first alpha release in the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS release cycle is now available for download. Installing the Alpha release is not recommended due to its early yet rapid developmental stage. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is scheduled for release in April 26th 2012.

1 December 2011
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VLC Nightly Builds Bring Tweaked Look, New Features

VLC is bar far and away the most popular media player on Ubuntu, if not Linux. But its interface has never been as slick as it could be. Thankfully the VLC nightly builds, unstable snapshots of the next release, have brought with them a slightly improved look...

1 December 2011
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Today Only: Get 60% Off Bobby and Monster RPG 2 Courtesy of @Gameolith

The fifth day of Linux Game Store Gameolith's winter sale sees 60% sliced off the price of two titles from indie games developer 'NooSkewl'. The double pack contains old-school-style RPG game 'Monster RPG 2' and addictive arcade game 'Bobby', and, for today only, can be purchased for $1.60.

30 November 2011
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Ubuntu Adds Extra Glow to Nokia’s Public Lumia 800 Event

Yesterday evening London’s iconic Millbank tower became the canvas upon which an awe inspiring light show took place. The 387 ft tall building was painted, warped and transformed by an array of lights and sound […]

29 November 2011
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Minor Tomahawk Update Ready for Ubuntu Users

The most recent bug fix update to open-source multi-source music player Tomahawk is now available for Ubuntu users, coming just shy of a week after it was released for OS X and Windows.

29 November 2011
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Today Marks Pay A Blogger Day

Today marks Pay A Blogger Day – a new initiative lead by social micro-payment service Flattr. The day seeks to motivate readers, listeners and users of blogs, podcasts, and open-source software into showing their appreciation […]

29 November 2011
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Making Dolphin Even Better: Add ‘Service Menus’

Among the things that I love most in KDE is it's file manager - Dolphin. Dolphin is fast, looks great and is future-rich. Recently I've thought "How can Dolphin possibly get any better?" and today I stumbled upon a very neat and useful tweak for Dolphin that makes it almost perfect - service menus.

28 November 2011
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Latest GNOME 3 Nautilus Mock-ups Point to Refined Look

GNOME designer Allan Day has updated GNOME 3's Nautilus mock-ups with a refined new look. The changes see Nautilus follow GNOME 3's new application design patterns.

28 November 2011
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Portuguese Store Worten Reveal Promo Ad for New Ubuntu Netbook

A video advert for Ubuntu has been added to the YouTube channel of Portugal's most well known electronics retailer Worten. Click on inside to view the advert and learn more about the device it promotes...

28 November 2011
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Ubuntu Cities Scope Lets You See Weather, Time, Location Info in the Dash

A new Scope for Ubuntu's Unity Dash allows you to get time, weather and map information for almost any location in the world. By entering a city name into the Dash search field the 'Cities Scope' grabs various data from online services to provide the time and current weather conditions, along with a link to the location on Google Maps.

28 November 2011

Get 50% Off Retro-styled Platform Game VVVVVV Today Only

Online Linux games store Gameolith is having a winter sale - and today's title knocks 50% off the price of retro-styled platformer VVVVVV.

28 November 2011