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Remmina to be Ubuntu’s new remote desktop app

GTK app Remmina is to replac TSClient as the default remote desktop client in Ubuntu 11.04. The tool is a capable successor to tsclient with many great features and support for multiple network protocols - including RDP - all of which is wrapped up in a consistant and accessible interface.

8 November 2010
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(belated) Happy Birthday to System76

November 7th saw Ubuntu computer company 'System76' reach its five year birthday.

8 November 2010
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Deditor is a Dedicated python text editor for Ubuntu

Meet Deditor – a lightweight Python-specific text-editor for Ubuntu. Ubuntu’s default text-editor ‘Gedit’ is a capable choice for python programming whether new or adept but for those seeking something developed towards the needs of python-developers […]

7 November 2010
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NVIDIA have ‘no plans to support Wayland’

With the current flurry of excitement over the announced aim of Ubuntu switching the current X server with the promising ‘Wayland’ display server in the near future,  NVidia have decided to join in the jamboree […]

7 November 2010
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Clutterflow gets packaged for Banshee 1.8

Banshee CoverFlow-style plugin ‘Clutterflow‘ – which we’ve covered many,many times hence no formal introduction to it – has seen a new repackaged release this weekend. The release, which adds support for Banshee 1.8 and improves […]

7 November 2010
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Use Ubuntu mono icons with any icon theme

Keep a mono-styled tray icons but use any theme set of your choice for the rest of your system.

7 November 2010
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GNOME 3 gets a new font [download]

GNOME 3 will ship with many exciting new features we already know about but here’s another to chalk up to the list: a new font! The font, a ‘Humanist sans-serif’ family titled ‘Cantarell’, isn’t actually […]

6 November 2010
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elementary mail app Postler comes to Launchpad

It's been a wee while since I last spoke about the elementary mail application 'Postler' but, in the last few days, the project has finally come to Launchpad.

6 November 2010
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Five Ways to Switch Between Workspaces in Ubuntu

Multiple desktop workspaces have long been an important feature of the Linux desktop. Half the battle in getting used to using 'virtual workspaces' is in finding a way to switch between them that suits your workflow. We list our top 5 ways of switching workspaces.

6 November 2010
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‘Ease’ Presentation App Makes Impress Look Less Than Impressive

'Ease Presentation editor' for the Gnome desktop aims to make presentation creation easy whilst providing all the standard features you'll likely need to create slick, visually impressive presentations. Better yet it has a very neat, animated cluttter-based interface that makes OpenOffice.Org Impress look so Windows 95 in comparison!

6 November 2010
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Display your real name in MeMenu

Chances are choose an Ubuntu account user name that differs to that of your real name. Usually this presents no problem - apart from with the MeMenu which displays your account name rather than your real name in the panel. Rather humorous for an indicator termed 'me'. Here's how to change.

5 November 2010
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Adafruit offers $2000 bounty for open source Microsoft Kinect drivers

DIY hardware company Adafruit has announced it will give a prize of $2000 to the first person who is able to write a open source and well documented driver for Microsoft's Kinect.

5 November 2010