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Ubuntu Unity’s new look Dash lands – plus Bitesize Progress Extravaganza

Ubuntu's Jorge O. Castro drops by with some slick new shots of Ubuntu 11.04's Alpha 3's improved Dash as well as a round-up of bite-sized bitesize bug news.

1 March 2011
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Gnome 3 removes ‘max’ and ‘min’ window controls – but why?

If you thought Ubuntu moving window controls to the left hand side was an issue you might need to sit down on learning of Gnome 3's latest change. Window controls in Gnome 3 now consists of one button and one button alone: close. 'Maximize' and 'Minimize' have been removed from window borders.

1 March 2011
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Driving across Brazil with Ubuntu: That’ll be The Google Streetview cars

Driving across Brazil with Ubuntu hooked up to a solid 3G connection may sound like my own take on an ace road trip but, according to one former Google Streetview driver it's exactly how the Google Streetview cars travel around Brazil.

1 March 2011

Project Bossanova unveils new website, FAQ and poll

Project Bossanova yesterday unveiled a new website, along with more information about the project and a poll where users can vote on the genre of game they'd like to see the project focus on.

28 February 2011
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Indicator Datetime nabs some natty new choices

Ubuntu 11.04's panel clock Indicator - Indicator Datetime - has received a handful of new features.

28 February 2011
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Ubuntu Developer Week starts today – Join in!

The next five days play home to the popular and informative 'Ubuntu Developer Week'. The week-long fact-packed workshops run from February 28th through to March 4th are designed to help get orientated in the ways of Ubuntu development.

28 February 2011
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Easily upload photos to Facebook in Ubuntu with ‘Starry hope Uploader’

Starry Hope Uploader makes uploading photos to your Facebook profile easy. Once open, just drag and drop your images onto the uploader, choose or create an album for them to be part of and hit upload. Further info, download instructions and more are inside.

28 February 2011
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Faster ‘help’ browser lands in Ubuntu 11.04

Gnome's Help Documentation browser has finally received some long-overdue love and attention, the results of which will be appearing in Ubuntu 11.04.

28 February 2011
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Script to set the ‘NASA wallpaper of the day’ as your wallpaper daily

Reader Christian S. sends word of an automated wallpaper script he's written that helps alleviate boring background blues (with some help from NASA).

27 February 2011
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New releases of Bodhi, PC-BSD and Linux Mint

As the fresh air of Spring approaches my hemisphere it seems many Linux distros are keen to keep in sync with the fauna and flora around me by birthing themselves some new releases. As I'm a busy chap with unnatural quantities of coffee to brew here is a quick pow-pow over-view of what's blooming in Distro land....

27 February 2011
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Apt-Linker for Chrome makes installing apps from online guides easier

Apt-Linker for Google Chrome automatically turns "apt-get install" commands in online guides and tutorials into clickable apturl links for easy installation of apps in Ubuntu.

26 February 2011
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Badschemer .deb for Ubuntu

Further to our post calling for help in creating an Ambiance theme for Gedit in Ubuntu 11.04, developer Shnatsel has packaged Badschemer - a GtkSourceViewer 'style' editor - into a .deb installer for easy-as-pie installation in Ubuntu.

26 February 2011