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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
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Ubuntu Smart TV Discussions Begin to ‘Warm Up’

Discussions towards the shaping of Ubuntu's planned to foray into the Smart TV sector are ' warming up' according to a new blog post from Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth.

27 November 2011
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[Quick Tip] Use the Banshee ‘NOT’ Operator for Better Search Results

Hardcore Banshee user Leo McArdle sent in the following handy tip: – “Hey, today I stumbled upon the NOT operator in the search of banshee. For example, if I want to only see tracks without “demo” […]

27 November 2011
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‘Foss Yeaaaah!’ – A Song About Unity, GNOME and Ubuntu

This is amazing. Benjamin Karensa was bored 'in the early A.M.' so spent 5 minutes recording a song about Ubuntu et al called 'Foss Yeaaaah!'. B. Karensa - please get bored more often. I want a whole freaking E.P. of this shiz! ;)

27 November 2011
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Linux Mint 12 Released

The latest version of Ubuntu-based Linux distribution 'Linux Mint' is now available to download.

27 November 2011
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Should AOL Provide an AIM Client for Linux?

A new poll on Aol's 'customer feedback' forum' is calling for AIM to be ported to Linux. But is there really a demand?

27 November 2011
marlin file browser in Ubuntu 11.10

[How to] Install ‘Marlin’ File Browser in Ubuntu 11.10

Bored of Nautilus? Tired of Thunar? Desperate to ditch Dolphin? Maybe it's time to try a new file browser? Marlin is a lightweight file browser built from the ground-up to be responsive, simply designed and easy to use - and here's how to install it in Ubuntu 11.10

27 November 2011