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Update: Appears not! From bordered to borderless, and then back again: Natty GTK theme change deemed ‘bland’

Update: Shocker! Mark Shuttleworth has just added a comment to the bug report stating that once the issues with Unity 2D are fixed, the theme will be going back to 0px border goodness. As if to prove our own wisened words of Alpha Caution true, one of our favourite tweaks to Natty has been reversed in less than 24 hours.

12 March 2011
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OMG! Ubuntu! Chrome web app

Everyone loves a glorified bookmark sat on their Chrome/ium new tab page and what better bookmark to have than one for OMG! Ubuntu!? It's nothing more than a big button that takes you to the site, but it's still nifty nonetheless.

11 March 2011
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Indicator-Network Looking Good in Ubuntu 11.04

It's been a while since I last played around with alternative Ubuntu connection manager 'Indicator-Network' - but by jove it's come a long way since!

11 March 2011
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Free AutoCAD clone ‘DraftSight’ hits Linux Beta

A beta release of professional 2D CAD application 'DraftSight' is now available for Linux users to download.

11 March 2011
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Ubuntu Themes Go Borderless for Natty

We've expressed our own love of borderless GTK+ themes before so we're delighted to find Ubuntu 11.04's Light themes have followed suit, adopting zero-pixel window borders on windows.

11 March 2011
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Ubuntu Natty adds ‘Control Centre’ entry to Session Menu

A menu entry for 'Control Centre' has been added to Ubuntu 11.04's Session Menu.

11 March 2011
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Receive Ubuntu Desktop Notifications on your iPhone with Pronto

iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners need never miss an Ubuntu desktop notification again with Pronto: an Ubuntu notification forwarding system for iOS.

11 March 2011
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Are you contributing your share?

I don't know about you but when I started using Free Software, I was amazed that I could benefit from all this for free. So after a few months I looked up how I could give something back. That was 13 years ago... and to date I'm still an active Debian Developer. Here's my story, what's your story going to be?

11 March 2011
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ALT+F2 returns to Unity – looking rather swish

Alt+F2 returns to Unity - with some visual kick.

11 March 2011
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Thunderbird getting some Unity love

Thunderbird fans should flap with joy: the e-mail app is getting some Unity launcher love courtesy of Mozilla Messaging's Mike Conley.

10 March 2011
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Some subtle icon changes in Natty

A Humanity Icon theme update in Natty yesterday brought with it a few subtle icon changes...

10 March 2011
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New Gwibber User Guide makes mastering social networking in Ubuntu easy

Gwibber is Ubuntu's default social networking client and boasts a powerful set of features for tweeting, denting and micro-blogging your life - but are you aware of everything that it can do?

10 March 2011