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Firefox AppMenu support shaping up for Natty

Natty's default browser remains Firefox - but will it finally gain global-menu support in time for Unity's move to the desktop?

11 December 2010

OMG Video Review: Kazam Screen Recorder Tool

Unlike most screen recording programs for Linux, Kazam is powerful in its editing/exporting options (in a clean, nice graphical user interface), works with a standard, easy-to-edit format, but it is not without it's downsides.

11 December 2010
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Get involved with the One Hundred Paper Cuts Project

Ever wanted to get Involved with the One Hundred Papercuts Project? Here we tell you how to get involved in reporting, triaging and fixing papercuts.

11 December 2010
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Social browser Rockmelt is coming to Linux – just not yet

Rockmelt, the much hyped social web browser famously backed by by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, is heading to Linux - only not just yet.

11 December 2010
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Help improve Banshee’s performance on Maverick

Banshee having been picked as Ubuntu's new default Music player is getting popular to test on all supported versions of Ubuntu. However there is a snag, for Maverick users, of which Ubuntu has a lot testing Banshee from what I can tell looking at the incoming bugs on GNOMEs bugtracker against Banshee.

10 December 2010
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Five Dalek Desktop Wallpapers

We celebrate the most bad-ass evil being in the Whoniverse - The Daleks!

10 December 2010
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Hacking on Kinect gets a whole lot easier

PrimeSense, the company behind Kinect has released open-source drivers for the peripheral, and established an Natural Interaction devices, applications and middleware organisation named OpenNI.

10 December 2010
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Help Novacut buy Akshat a new laptop

Many of you know Akshat Jain, who goes by ssj6akshat on IRC and frequents the #omg!ubuntu! and #novacut channels. He lives in rural India, is learning programming, and just turned 14 today. Happy birthday, Akshat!

10 December 2010
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DJ software mixxx updates, adds Beta build

Open-source Live DJ software Mixxx, developed by a community of DJ’s, saw the first beta release in its 1.9.0 cycle released alongside an update to version 1.8.x.

10 December 2010
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Monster Mega Mono News Update

The Mono 2.8 preview release created some stir in our comment section when it was announced with performance improvements and a new more efficient memory system. It was since released , and had a maintance […]

10 December 2010
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How to easily set the default os in grub

If you're a dual-boot user chances are you've at some stage or another wanted to change the default OS that GRUB chooses to boot into.

10 December 2010
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Minitube 1.3 restores youtube playback but loses seek support on Linux

Desktop flash-free YouTube player Minitube was one of many YouTube related applications that stopped working yesterday.

10 December 2010