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Double-sided Unity launcher patch demoed [video]

Yesterday Benjamin showed off some slick conceptual Unity behaviour mock-ups. Today some of those ideas presented in those exist in code thanks, once again, to the work of Andrea Azzarone.

15 March 2011
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My girlfriend’s desktop [Desktop Tour]

Due to some bad experience with viruses on her Laptop running Windows 7, my girlfriend decided to give Ubuntu another try. She is used to it since that is what I have running on my machine, but she never really liked the themes and the looks.

15 March 2011

How to Enable System Tray Applets in Ubuntu 11.04

Can't live without Shutter/Dropbox/Opera/insert-other-app-here sitting in Natty's system panel? Quick fix ahoy.

15 March 2011
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Picapy: Desktop ‘Picasa Web’ file browser for Ubuntu

Managing your Picasa Web photos without opening a browser or installing Google's Wine-friendly Picasa Photo editor is possible using Picapy - a python based file browser for Picasa Web albums.

15 March 2011
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Help Test Shotwell 0.9.0 Before Release

We love Yorba here at OMG! Ubuntu! and no-doubt many of you do to. Share some of that love by getting your coding digits dirty and compiling the latest Shotwell from trunk to hunt down bugs ahead of Shotwell's next release...

15 March 2011
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Thunderbird Unity extension for Natty ready for testing

Thunderbird fans: Do remember we shared news of Mike Conley’s neat Unity Launcher + Thunderbird integration a few days back?

14 March 2011
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Empathy 3.0 adds contact blocking (finally)

Empathy 3.0 will finally include 'user blocking/unblocking ' - a feature long demanded by users of the multi-protocol chat application.

14 March 2011
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Contractor brings seamless file sharing between apps to the Linux desktop

Contractor is new 'sharing service' developed by Allen Lowe for the elementary project. It allows applications to push data and/or files to other applications without the applications needing to be hard-coded to do so. Think of it as a middle man that relieves both applications of having to work with each other - they just need to work with Contractor.

14 March 2011
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Multi-touch app ‘Touchégg’ hits version 0.2, adds more gestures, actions & GUI

The latest version of 'Touchégg' - the multi-touch gesture creator for Linux - has added in further gesture and action support along with a nifty GUI gesture manager.

14 March 2011

Project Bossanova announces contest, partnership with Desura

Another fortnight, another exciting update from the folks running Project Bossanova. Project Bossanova have just now announced the results of the poll in an email to the mailing list, along with a partnership with game distributing company Desura, and also possibly most excitingly, a contest for indie developers to submit their games for potential sponsorship.

14 March 2011
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Six Conceptual Unity behaviour mock-ups

David Reichling has created a bunch of neat mockups of how Unity should behave, most notably around the Launcher and Dash button. He shared his ideas with me via Twitter, and I thought they were so cool I'd have to publish them on here.

14 March 2011

Volley Brawl Teaser 1 [NSFW]

March 31st. Only on Ubuntu.

14 March 2011