The Board gets a minor update - and window borders!

Minor update pushed out for thought-taking app ‘The Board’

A minor update to Lucas Rocha's note-space application 'The Board' has been pushed out to early testers.

29 March 2011

Submit your ideas for Volley Brawl characters and be in to win one of 3 copies of the game!

On Thursday we're releasing Volley Brawl in the Ubuntu Software Center for $2.99 USD. We've got a few copies of the game to give away for free. It's really, really easy to enter - all you have to do is suggest a new character in the comments section.

29 March 2011
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We interview Norbert Varga from upcoming game Dilogus: The Winds of War

Dilogus: The Winds of War is an upcoming game being developed by Digital Arrow. The game looks promising - built on the Unigine engine, it's cross platform and runs beautifully on Linux. We sat down with Norbert Varga, who works for Digital Arrow handling production and design of the game.

29 March 2011
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How to enable Global Menu support for LibreOffice in Ubuntu 11.04

Ubuntu 11.04 users can free up some screen space and gain desktop consistency in LibreOffice by enabling LibreOffice Global Menu support.

28 March 2011
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Tomahawk media player offers multi-source library and genius playlists

Tomahawk is a new QT media player with a difference: it wants to playback anything you ask for - even if you don't have it on your hard-drive.

28 March 2011
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Indicator-Weather: "Is it just me or…"

Panagiotis Skintzos has begun on a Vala port of Indicator-Weather. Whilst there are many great ideas in the new design layout there is one aspect that bugs me...

28 March 2011
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Neat video review of OMG! Words! – the free game from OMG! Ubuntu!

Browsing around YouTube I also came across this pretty neat video review of the game by YouTube Ubuntu-er darockero11 that does an excellent job of showing off how the games works and just how addictive it can be...

28 March 2011

Volley Brawl – more details, price and yes (another) video!

It's about time we came clean with you all. Those videos, these mysterious characters appearing in the side bar every day for the last few days (currently, Pedobear is hanging out there, watching you), they've all been a bit random. So here's the truth. We're releasing a game. A cool game. A game only for Ubuntu, only for the Software Center. And it's cheap.

28 March 2011
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Music player Clementine 0.7 released with auto track tagging, new library views and more

Barely a week after developers called for testing on the release-candidate, the latest stable version of Amarok 1.4 inspired music player Clementine is ready to download.

27 March 2011
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‘Test Drive’ offers install-free app try-outs in Ubuntu 11.04

Amongst the never-ending-list-of-really-cool-features new in Ubuntu 11.04 is 'Test Drive' - a new Software Centre feature that allows you to try applications without installing them.

27 March 2011
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AWN ‘taskbar’ style proposed; docks to come full-circle?

Window Dock applications such as AWN, Docky and Kiba are often used by users seeking something with more visual pizazz than the traditional 'icon + text' window option present in the default GNOME-Panel. But what if the traditional way could also be made to look "sexy"?

27 March 2011
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How to control Skype from Docky

Managing your Skype chats and controlling you Skype status with Dock application 'Docky' is simple.

27 March 2011