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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
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Five alternative apps for ALT+F2 functionality in Unity

"Arrrrrrgh" said the bear with the sore head when trying to run 'xkill' in Unity. "Why doesn't pawing ALT + F2 work in here?!". He needn't worry. I've made a list of some worthy replacements. Click on in to read.

8 November 2010
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Nautilus-Elementary is dead, long live ‘Marlin’

The honeymoon is over folks: Nautilus-elementary is no longer being actively developed. The elementary team are instead turning their attention towards creating a file browser that does everything they want it to, and it's called Marlin.

8 November 2010
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Is this the first peek at the new look ‘Gnome Do’ launcher?

A trusted source, one wishing to remain anonymous, sent in the following screenshot of what looks like the newly-rewritten [Gnome] Do...

8 November 2010
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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