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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
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Ubuntu for HTC HD2 adds Unity interface

A new release of an Ubuntu port project for the HTC HD2 phone has been released. Ubuntu 0.3 for HTC HD2 uses Ubuntu 10.10 with the Unity (Mutter) interface, performance and stability fixes as well […]

28 December 2010
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Docky ‘Clippy’ Docklet makes my life easier.

A new docklet for Docky aims to make clipboard history management a breeze.

28 December 2010
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Indicator-Virtualbox adds quick-click OS launching to your panel

Indicator-Virtualbox offers a quick way to launch virtual machines via the desktop panel.

27 December 2010
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Universal email notifier ‘Popper’ gets update

Fans of universal e-mail notification indicator tool 'Popper' will be pleased to hear that it recieved an update over Xmas. What's new? Read on for more!

27 December 2010
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Zeitgeist Time freeze (or how not to lose your logs every 6 months) [Updated with download]

Over on DevinatArt, designer Izobalax has been musing on a minor flaw in Zeitgeists armour: the ability to easily 'take' your logswith you.

27 December 2010