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Facebook Bans KDE Apps, Deletes Pics Uploaded Using Them [Update]

Update: Facebook has since restored access for the KDE applications and plugins, as well as re-adding the missing photos. Apparently the removal was a mistake caused by one of Facebook's automated systems. Facebook has banned KDE applications from uploading pictures to user profiles, deleting pictures that have already been uploaded using KDE apps in the process.

28 June 2011
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Threaded E-Mail Coming to Postler

Conversation-style e-mail display, like that found in GMail, is heading to Postler - and plans on looking sexy in the process. Initial work on conversation threads - which groups sequential e-mails from the same 'conversation' - is already present in the development builds of Postler.

28 June 2011
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LulzSec Used Ubuntu

In the latest (and seemingly final) batch of documents dumped on The Pirate Bay by computer hacker outfit 'LulzSec', a familiar looking operating system can be seen in use.

26 June 2011
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‘Bumblebee’ Gets a PPA, Brings NVidia Optimus Graphics Switching to Ubuntu

Open-source "Nvidia Optimus" graphics switching tool 'Bumblebee has a PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu.

25 June 2011
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Wallpaper Slideshow App For Gnome 3 (Updated)

Dhananjay Sathe sent in news of an application he's been working on that will be of use to those running GNOME 3 - a wallpaper slideshow tool.

24 June 2011

Opera 11.50 Hits Release Candidate, Ready to Download

A Release Candidate build of Opera 11.50, the next version of Opera Software's web browser, is now available to download.

24 June 2011
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Arcade Shooter ‘Steel Storm’ Summer Sale Price – $2.99 in Ubuntu

Bored? Spend $2.99 on an ace space shoot 'em up. Top down arcade shooter Steel Storm: Burning Retribution is on sale in the Ubuntu Software, available to purchase for just $2.99. The sale price is valid from June 23rd until July 5th after which the game rises to $10.

24 June 2011
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Synaptic Package Manager Dropped From Ubuntu 11.10

Advanced system packaging tool 'Synaptic Package Manager' has been dropped from the latest builds of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.

24 June 2011
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‘Paste Bin It’ Plugin For Tomboy Notes App Makes Sharing Text Snippets Simpler

You need to share some lengthy terminal output, a bizarre conversation or other block of text or others to see. E-Mail is too much effort, creating, saving and sending a file attachment is over-kill but pasting it the chat room or IM window is just going flood it. What to do? PasteBinIt from Tomboy Notes!

23 June 2011
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Two Neat Themes For Dock App ‘Plank’

If you're crazy enough to be running the still-in-development elementary dock application 'Plank' you may be longing to make a break from the minimal theme it ships with. To help here are two slick themes for use with it...

23 June 2011
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Thunderbird 5.0 Beta 2 Arrives

The second, and final, beta release of Mozilla Thunderbird 5.0 has been made available for download.

23 June 2011

Ubuntu 11.10 Development Update

Oneiric development is in full swing and with Feature Freeze still 7 weeks away, most of the intrusive changes are landing in the development release as we speak. Alpha 2 will be released in two weeks which should be a great time to check out what's currently happening. As always: the status overview might give you an idea how each feature is progressing.

23 June 2011