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Why doesn’t Unity just use Docky? Here’s why.

If you ever wondered why Unity uses it's own launcher instead of the SimplyAwesome™ Docky, here is an explanation, straight from Docky's creator Jason Smith.

8 December 2010
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Illumination Software Creator added to Ubuntu Software Centre

Illumination Software Creator has become the latest paid' app to land on the shelves of the Ubuntu Software Centre.

8 December 2010
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Veromix – soundmenu tray plasmoid for KDE

'Veromix' provides KDE users with an Ubuntu-style sound menu plasmoid that can be used on the desktop or tucked up in the system tray.

8 December 2010
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Mock up: Application overview in Unity

Could Unity's application over-view look better for Natty? Discussions currently taking place on the Ayatana mailing list certainly think so and the mock-up below is one such proposed solution.

8 December 2010
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Cheese webcam gets some crazy new effects

Take a peek at some crazy new video effects coming to the Cheese webcam tool in this video by Daniel Siegel & Andreas Nilsson.

8 December 2010
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DockBarX updates with new look

GNOME panel applet 'DockbarX' has been updated with a brand new look

8 December 2010
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W3schools: Linux hits 5% OS market share in November

The respected web development portal W3Schools have published their OS statistics for November - and it's good news for Linux.

8 December 2010
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Deb files set to look prettier, informative in Ubuntu 11.04

Picture a .deb file in your mind and chances are it'll be a beige box with a dreary uniform look. Uniformly uninformative, at that. Ubuntu 11.04 may just see this change thanks to 'Deb-thumbnailer'.

7 December 2010
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Choqok Twitter app hits 1.0 RC1, adds many new features

Time flies when you're.... tweeting... The first release candidate of Qt Twitter app Choqok has been released ahead of the formal 1.0 release date on December 26th.

7 December 2010
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GNOME 3 T-shirt Contest

Could you translate your love/excitement/anticipation for GNOME 3.0 into a kick-ass T-shirt design? Want to win money in the process? Then get scribbling and enter the latest contest by GNOME which will celebrate the launch […]

7 December 2010
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Intellihide added to Unity Launcher

Only a few days back I mentioned that Intellihide would be an ace option for Unity's Launcher to have.... Now it does.

7 December 2010
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Dedicated Python editor ‘Deditor’ adds plugins system

Deditor – the lightweight Python-specific text-editor for Ubuntu - has added some super new features in its latest release.

7 December 2010