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Oxygen theme for Google Chrome

I've been on the hunt for a decent Oxygen theme to make Google Chrome look less orphan in Kubuntu 10.10 and finally found one. I thought I'd bookmark it here in public in-case other folks are also seeking one out.

22 November 2010
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This short film trailer made in Ubuntu is really rather good

Settle down for a minute or so and watch the trailer below for upcoming short Last Payment by Eric Kneifel which was made entirely in Ubuntu using FOSS apps!

22 November 2010
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Novell ‘agrees to be Acquired by Attachmate’ for $2.2 Billion, sells intellectual property to Microsoft-led group

Novell, Inc. - the company behind SUSE Linux, OpenSUSE, Banshee and a raft of other innovations - have announced they are to be acquired by the Attachmate Corporation in a deal worth a estimated $2.2 billion.

22 November 2010
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Sync Yahoo calendar with Evolution in Ubuntu

Dexter Jerome Smith sent us the following tutorial for syncing your online Yahoo! calendar with desktop based Evolution.

22 November 2010
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Rethinking video editing with Novacut

In this guest post, Jason DeRose of Novacut team explains about the design focus for their upcoming video editor.

22 November 2010
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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