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CoverGloobus adds timer, progress bar support

Covergloobus fans rejoice - time counter and track-seeking has been implemented into the popular desktop coverart n' controller. I smell a new release brewing ;)

15 November 2010
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GNOME Shell: Getting prettier by the day

Gnome-Shell's UI revamp continues apace. With so many visual changes now landing MrMars decided to drop some screenshots off in the OMG! Inbox! along with a link to his Italian Ubuntu forum post touching on them. The changes are very, very clear to see from the images below so lets have a quick rundown courtesy of MrMars...

15 November 2010
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Ubuntu Mono light Language Flag icons

Multi-lingual users or those with a need to switch between languages need not suffer the rather lame indicator-icon Ubuntu provides by default with these Ubuntu Mono-light replacements. Created by user scottiw2000 ‘to solve the problem […]

15 November 2010
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MeeGo phone demoed on powerful ARM hardware

Charbax of ArmDevices.net has been at ARM Techcon this week gathering up all the latest news and developments ARM related. Amongst the many companies showing off Linaro-enabled devices were ST-Ericsson who demonstrated the MeeGo OS […]

14 November 2010
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Burg manager app updated with new themes, new features

Easy graphical BURG boot-loader tool ‘BURG Manager’ has been updated to version 1.0. Alongside bug fixes and translations several new features make this release notable: – make an appearance, including: – Ability to restore burg […]

14 November 2010
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Wine 1.3.7 Released with improved system tray support, fixes

Bang on schedule the latest Wine development release is now available for download/installation. New features in this release include: – Improved system tray support Better support for installers with assemblies GStreamer support fixes Many MSXML […]

14 November 2010
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Lubuntu 10.10 RMX is both lightweight & gorgeous

Lubuntu is one of the most elegant looking distributions out there but one users own ‘spin’ on it has made it even more breath-taking. ‘Lubuntu 10.10 RMX’ takes the best of stock Lubuntu 10.10 but […]

14 November 2010
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Compiz/Unity PPA for Natty

Ubuntu’s Jorge Castro has just tweeted that the Unity/Compiz pre-alpha is now available for early Natty users to test via PPA. More information can be found @ http://bit.ly/donNSi and the PPA ityself – whic is […]

12 November 2010
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System76 to begin shipping to the UK ‘end of this month’

Ubuntu-dedicated hardware company System76 have announced plans to begin shipping internationally. The announcement, which will see orders sent to the UK from the end of this month onwards, is fantastic news to everybody everywhere. The […]

12 November 2010
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New Kinect contest could bring minority report style control to Linux

Since the launch of Microsoft’s Kinect gaming hardware there have been repeated open-source initiatives, hacks and projects aiming to utilise the hardware in an open-source environment. Matt Cutts – a Google employee, although this is […]

12 November 2010
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Indicator-headphones: making sound schemes symbolic

The following idea on creating an  by Daniel Planas was posted to the Ayatana mailing list. I think it’s quite a novel idea so thought I’d share it here. Calling for ‘intelligent indicators’ Daniel’s idea […]

12 November 2010
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Help Shotwell to help you

With photo manager Shotwell 0.8 adding video downloading/reading support many of us are going to find our lives made that little bit easier. Yorba‘s Adam Dingle posted the following call for testing on the Shotwell […]

11 November 2010