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Official Ubuntu keyboard for sale… with a Windows key?

A new officially branded waterproof keyboard has gone on sale in the Canonical store - albeit one with what appears to be a Windows key.

2 January 2011
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New year… and we’re back

Yesterday was a barren post day due to most of us recovering from the extremes of new year partying. Sobriety now a given, it's back to work for us.

2 January 2011
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Activity Journal getting a new View

I am blessed with some amazing team. The magnificent Cando just finished a new view for Activity Journal.

31 December 2010
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Atolm GTK+ theme: Dark, brushed and oh-so nice

Meet Atolm – the newest dark theme on the block. Atolm is the result of a collaboration between designers SkiesOfAzel and MonkeyMagico, the latter of whom created the mock that  served as the inspiration for […]

30 December 2010
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dmedia 0.2 ‘Feature Frenzy’ sees the light of the day

The 0.2 version of dmedia (codnamed 'Feature Frenzy'), the storage component of Novacut Video Editor, has been released right according to the schedule. Geeky bits follow with a sneak peek of the first iteration of the UI.

30 December 2010
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Integrate Wine in Ubuntu with ‘Vineyard’

Decent Wine integration in Ubuntu is something many of us would love to have - and we can thanks to an application called 'Vineyard'. Vineyard provides two useful features: firstly it provides a native way to configure Wine and Wine preferences and secondly it creates tight integration between Wine and the Ubuntu desktop.

29 December 2010
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Indicator-wallpaper changer anyone?

It seems there are more ways to change desktop wallpaper in Ubuntu than there are wallpapers. DesktopNova is another tray-based tool for switching between wallpapers but one which , thanks to Michael Otto, now has a shiny application indicator to control it with.

29 December 2010
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Slick, intelligent Plymouth Boot Splash

Boot screens: generally the land of the bland. But not so anymore.

29 December 2010
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‘Single window’ GIMP release delayed – but why?

GIMP 2.8, a.k.a. 'the one with single window mode', won't see release on December 26th as planned. But why? Read on to see.

29 December 2010
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Create a ‘wingpanel’ effect using the default gnome panel

Reader Vjjustin has written up an interesting little tutorial on creating a ‘wingpanel’-style panel using nothing more than the default GNOME panel.

29 December 2010
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Skype Zeitgeist logger under development

Check out this Skype zeitgeist logger I have been working on.

29 December 2010
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More details emerge on ‘mystery’ Ubuntu tablet

More information has surfaced on the new Ubuntu-powered tablet device we wrote about last week. The ‘TENQ P07’ tablet aims to launch early next year an will sport Ubuntu 10.10 atop an 1.6Ghz Atom CPU, […]

28 December 2010