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The new look Gnome-Shell ‘Relayout’ branch lands

Just a quicks heads up to those following the development of GNOME-Shell - Florian Müllner has just announced that the new-look relayout branch - which we cooed over lovingly several weeks back - has landed in the GNOME-Shell Master branch.

29 November 2010
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Zeitgeist coming to KDE

Zeitgeist is on its way to KDE, and our favourite Egyptian hacker Seif Lotfy explains more in this post.

29 November 2010
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Scrivener writing app – Install the beta in Ubuntu [.deb]

Until recently, unless you used a Mac, the popular writing application Scrivener was an app that passed most people by. In the last few months things have been changing on that front with the launch of a native Windows beta in October which has finally helped broaden the market for the tool. Better yet this version runs under Wine on Linux - after a bit of cajoling.

29 November 2010
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Lubuntu 11.04 Default apps: Cheese off the menu, LightDM as login & aqualung the immovable

Lubuntu developers are currently debating the default application line-up for the 11.04 release of the lightweight Ubuntu spin due April 2011.

29 November 2010

Faenza Cairo-Clock theme

Faenza fans - adds even more squares to your desktop with this Faenza theme for Cario-Clock, which is based on the actual Faenza clock icon.

29 November 2010
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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