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Hey, Adobe – bring Creative Suite to Ubuntu

A new vote calling for Creative Suite to be ported (in a form) to run on Linux is in effect. Find out how to add your voice.

10 November 2010
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Open-source kinect driver demoed

Hector Martin (aka marcan42 on YouTube) has created – and demoed – a free, open-source driver for Microsoft’s ‘Kinect’ camera dubbed ‘Libfreenect’.

10 November 2010
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Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Daily Build’s available

The daily build snapshots of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal - due next April - are up and ready for download.

10 November 2010
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Help Add missing screenshots to the Ubuntu Software Centre

Fed up of browsing the Software Centre in Ubuntu only to come across a neat-sounding application that lacks a screenshot? Here's how to help out!

10 November 2010
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Oscar winning video editor ‘Lightworks’ not coming to Linux until ‘late 2011’

Lightworks - the recently open-sourced professional grade video editor - is still on course to come to Linux - but not until next year.

9 November 2010
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Spread Ubuntu site gets slick new look, domain

Where am I? No, I don't know either. Why? The "relaunch" of the new-look Spread Ubuntu site - which offers a massive online catalogue of downloadable marketing materials for Ubuntu - has happened and I didn't notice!

9 November 2010
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Move Google Chrome Cache to a ram disk and speed up page loading

Got ample RAM installed? Want to speed up web page loading in Google Chrome? By moving your web cache to a RAM disk you can do just that. “It is possible to store a web […]

9 November 2010
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Fix ‘blank’ photo prints problem in GIMP

Many users were surprised to find out that, after upgrading to Maverick, GIMP no longer prints out photographs, but instead prints out blank pages. Fortunately, I have found the fix to this, which shall land in Maverick through update-manager in a few weeks.

9 November 2010
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Happy 6th Birthday Firefox

Firefox celebrates its sixth birthday today, with Firefox's 1.0 having been released exactly on this date back in 2004.

9 November 2010
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Set your screen resolution higher than its default with NewRez

Sometimes there are scripts/apps that I just have to feature for the sheer 'woaaah' factor - and this is certainly one of them.

9 November 2010
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Linux Mint: No to Unity, no to Gnome-Shell

When Mark Shuttleworth announced that future versions of Ubuntu will use Unity by default on the desktop many users of Linux Mint, a highly polished Ubuntu-derived distribution, were left wondering what it would use.

9 November 2010
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Video uploading/downloading to feature in Shotwell 0.8

A new release of the excellent photo manager shotwell isn't that far off and from development so far it is packing a few new goodies...

8 November 2010