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Remind Yourself of Anything: Nifty Timer Applet for Unity

Kettle's on! Pizza's in the oven! Only 23 minutes until a new episode of Inspector Spacetime - all are situations where keeping an eye on the time is important. Now hopefully you're not like me (i.e. useless at doing so) but, should you be, then TeaTime is a neat Unity-launcher based alarm applet that works wonders.

28 October 2011
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Ubuntu 11.10 at ARM TechCon 2011 [Video]

Canonical are putting a lot of effort into Ubuntu on ARM, and based on the small glimpses seen at this years ARM TechCon in California, the effort is paying off.

27 October 2011
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Seif Needs Your Help To Gather Some Statistics On Gedit

I am working on a dashboard (start page) for Gedit to make it easier for users to see their most commonly used files. We are not sure that for Gedit that "Frequent" is of interest for us, however before we take any decisions we decided to appeal to all gedit users who have been using Zeitgeist for over a month to use run the following script in a terminal via

27 October 2011
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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 2

(This is a guest post from Ubuntu developer and Canonical employee Daniel Holbach, which was originally posted here.) Ubuntu Development Update Wow, one week into the release cycle and already and by the time of […]

27 October 2011

In-Store Ubuntu Displays, PCs Come to China

Imagine walking into a PC store and being greeted by a large Ubuntu-branded display with a host of Ubuntu-powered devices for sale. Well, if you're a PC-seeking shopper in China you'll have over ample opportunity to see just such a display, as Canonical's new retail partnership with Dell puts Ubuntu-powered machines in over 200 stores across the country.

27 October 2011
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‘My Weather Indicator’ Adds Geolocation Support

Panel-based weather applet My Weather Indicator has added geolocation support, providing input free location detection based on your IP. With many of us used to mobile apps and online weather sites using of geolocation to serve […]

27 October 2011
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It’s ‘Game Over’ for Linux. Apparently.

Unlike trains or buses you can pretty much bank on predictions of Linux’s impending doom, demise and decay arriving almost to schedule. Coming barely a day after the release of the latest linux kernel, Mike […]

26 October 2011
The New Lemur Laptop

Third Gen System 76 Lemur Laptop Goes on Sale

The third generation model in Ubuntu-dedicated hardware company System 76's Lemur Ultra laptop line is available to buy.

25 October 2011
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How To Install GNOME-Shell Themes in Ubuntu 11.10

Earlier today we ran down five of our favourite themes for GNOME Shell. Chances are you'll want to try a few of those themes out on your desktop - but how to do it? Providing you're using Ubuntu 11.10 and GNOME-Shell it's actually quite simple...

24 October 2011

Five Pretty Awesome GNOME Shell Themes

One of the great things about GNOME Shell is that it’s comprehensibly themeable – from the top panel and applet menus to the awesome on-screen keyboard. Below are five are five of my top GNOME Shell […]

24 October 2011
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New Movie Scope Brings Rich Meta-Data Filters to Movie Files in Ubuntu

Browsing your movie files could soon become a lot easier in Ubuntu. A new 'Movie scope' in development for Ubuntu's Unity File Lens aims to enhance browsing your locally available video files by adding searchable movie-related meta-data.

24 October 2011
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Online Linux Games Store ‘Gameolith’ Launches UK and European Storefronts

The online Linux game download store Gameolith have launched two new sites for European and UK customers to purchase games in their own currencies.

24 October 2011