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Kinect hacking on Ubuntu continues: Recognizing objects

Yet more news form the world of Kinect Hacking - this time a video demoing some awesome work on 'teaching Kinect to recognize objects.'

29 November 2010
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Use Chrome’s auto-updated Flash in Firefox

Thanks to a partnership between Google and Adobe Google's Chrome browser ships with a built-in version of Flash that is more recent than that available to download individually. Here's how to use it in Firefox.

29 November 2010
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Hope GTK theme gives your desktop a wintery chill

'Hope' GTK+ theme gives your desktop a cold, wintery feel with its blue highlights and steely gradients. Although Hope draws together elements from Ambiance, elementary and Impression GTK+ themes it stands a unique them in its own right. Download link and more info inside.

28 November 2010
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Poll: Which of these five games would you want multi-touch support for?

We previously asked you which games Ubuntu developers should focus on in adding multi-touch support for. The 5 most voted games from that post have now been arranged into a poll to see which game is truly your most desired multi-touch wannabe.

28 November 2010
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Wine 1.3.8 released

The weekly development release of Wine landed on Friday with the usual smattering of minor additions, bug fixes and improvements.

28 November 2010
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Gnome Activity Journal’s "mystery" hacker continues to add awesome features

GNOME Activity Journal - the easy way to view your Zeitgeist life - has been receiving some due love and attention from a so-called 'mystery' hacker who has added Drag and Drop support, entry pinning and audio preview.

28 November 2010
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Browser extension allows website control via Kinect

Dream of going all Minority Report in Mozilla Firefox? Then say hello to DepthJS – a web browser extension that ‘allows for any webpage to interact with Kinect via JavaScript.’ DepthJS is much more than […]

28 November 2010
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Ubuntu Sound Menu plugin for Exaile music player

Exaile music player users who wouldn't mind controlling playback via the new Ubuntu Sound Menu can now get in on the action thanks to a new plugin created especially for this purpose.

28 November 2010
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Cardapio gets mini-mode & Docky helper

A new version of popular main menu replacement Cardapio has been released - with many features longed for by users. Amongst the changes sit reduced memory usage, interface enhancements and added support for Cardapio use with Docky.

27 November 2010
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Ubuntu One for Windows – a quick run down of the first beta

Yesterday I got my invite to join the Ubuntu One Windows Beta. I thought I'd show off some screenshots.

27 November 2010
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Elementary theme for Filezilla

Open-source FTP tool FileZilla is fantastic at what it does - but if you're an elementary fan you'll have noticed that it looks a little lame when doing it.

26 November 2010
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64bit language pack .deb for Lotus Symphony

64bit user missing extra languages in IBM Lotus Symphony office suite? Here's just the ticket.

26 November 2010