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Ubuntu – As Recommended by the College of Charleston

Reader Grant sent in this nifty spot of Ubuntu 'at large'...

23 August 2011
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Mozilla Introduces WebAPI

Mozilla have today announced WebAPI - a new project tasked with standardising access to mobile specific features.

23 August 2011
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Buy ‘Illumination Software Creator’ for Whatever You Want

I've been meaning to review the new-developer orientated app 'Illumination Software Centre' for the last fortnight but just haven't found time. It seems that doesn't matter now, as for a limited time you can buy the software for whatever you want and form your own opinion...

23 August 2011
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GIMP 2.7.3 Released With Working Single Window Mode, Layer Groups, More

A new unstable snapshot of Image Editing programme 'The Gimp' has been released.

22 August 2011
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We’ve open sourced our Android app – Java developers, come and play!

Just a quick notification to let everyone know that we've open sourced our OMG! Ubuntu! android application. All you budding Java coders can head on over to Launchpad and play around with the code.

22 August 2011
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The GNOME 2 Fork ‘Mate’

Whether it's Unity in Ubuntu, GNOME Shell in Fedora, or the number 4 suffixing KDE, there are some users who don't welcome change with open arms. For those people not united behind Unity, remain unsure about GNOME Shell, and couldn't care less about KDE listen up: the GNOME 2 desktop has been forked.

21 August 2011
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Behold Ubuntu’s Power Cog

The Device Menu in Ubuntu 11.10 has acquired a new look icon... The 'Power Cog' icon is a visual meld of 'Settings' and 'Power' icons, perfectly representing the Device Menu it opens.

19 August 2011
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Video Effects Coming to Empathy Video Chat

GNOME developer Raluca has been working on bringing the cool video effects from webcam app 'Cheese' over to Empathy's video chat window.

19 August 2011
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Try Hacking Simulator Game ‘Hacker Evolution Duality’ For Free

A free, playable beta of Indie hacking simulator game 'Hacker Evolution Duality' has been made available for download for Linux users.

19 August 2011

Lucid Lives: 10 Apps Still Updated for Ubuntu 10.04

With Ubuntu 10.10 and 11.04 long since out, and Ubuntu 11.10 stirring up excitement with every update, it's easy to forget that the 16 month old Long Term Support release of Ubuntu 10.04 remains installed on many a users computer. But there are a number of applications that provide their latest versions for Ubuntu 10.04 users, and in this post I'll highlight 10 of the very best applications still loving the honourable Lucid Lynx.

19 August 2011
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How to Help Test Shotwell 0.11

Are you brave, a Shotwell fan and good at hunting bugs? If so Shotwell needs your help...

19 August 2011
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Ubuntu 11.10 Development update

Last week we hit Feature Freeze. This is the big date that all developer dread the most. Now features and new upstream versions have to have landed, everything else will be a matter the release team has to decide upon. We are rushing towards release with UI Freeze and Beta Freeze coming up next week. Exciting times!

18 August 2011