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Clementine music player adds Sound menu support

Chalk another one up people for the latest developer builds of Clementine now supports the Ubuntu sound menu. If you want it now there's a PPA and some .deb's too!

22 November 2010
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Firefox 4 Beta 7 – how it should look on Linux

Yesterday we mentioned that Firefox 4 Beta for Linux now boasts a 'menu' button rather than a menu bar. Whilst it's undoubtedly welcome it doesn't look as good as it could - nor should. Take a peek and see why.

22 November 2010
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Jimmy Wales Chrome extension adds Wikipedia appeal banner to every site

This is not a personal appeal from the founder of Wikipedia Jimmy Wales - but it is an extension which inserts one on every website you visit.

22 November 2010
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Jolibook goes on sale in the UK for £279

The Jolibook netbook from Jolicloud is available to purchase in the UK via Amazon and manufactuer Vye's own online shop.

21 November 2010
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Get gorgeous transparent blurred app windows in Kubuntu

Make Oxygen even more beautiful with transparent blurred windows.

21 November 2010
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Ubuntu Software Centre adds more paid apps

A few of you have dropped us a line to point out that the Ubuntu Software Center has new 'paid' apps for sale.

21 November 2010
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Firefox 4 Nightlies finally adds ‘menu’ button

The long-awaited ‘Firefox’ menu button has arrived in the latest nightly Linux builds – for now. The feature, already present in the Windows version of Mozilla’s browser, replaces the menu bar with a single button. […]

21 November 2010
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Nautilus Imgur uploading Script updated with login feature

Last week I posted about Tommy Brunn’s ace Imgur nautilus script that makes image uploading a right-click breeze. On that post many readers wished for ‘login’ support so that images could be uploaded to their […]

21 November 2010
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Some simple Natty sound menu updates

Caution: Don’t get overly excited. We’re not even at Natty Alpha 1 yet so the updates below will change over the coming months. That said it’s always nice to check in and monitor the changes […]

21 November 2010
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OpenTeacher language tutor hits 2.0 beta 2

Open Source language aid ‘OpenTeacher’ 2.0 has released its second beta. The self-described ‘easiest way to learn a new language’ tool allows you to ‘enter a list of words in both a known and a […]

21 November 2010
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Get Chromium on Ubuntu To Play mp4, H.264, MP3 & view PDF files natively

Google ChromeOS will do many wonderful things – the free and open-source version ‘Chromium OS’ sadly won’t. Many of these ‘features’ can, given the nature of what Chrome/iumOS is, be enabled easily in both – […]

21 November 2010
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Stay Hidden on GTalk in Empathy: Fix

GTalk Empathy users may have come across the following bug: – You change your status to ‘hidden’ but Empathy shows you as ‘Busy’ – this can lead to all manner of super embarrassing moments… "Hey […]

20 November 2010