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Album Art Search plug-in for Rhythmbox

Search for missing album artwork directly from Rhythmbox using the following ‘AlbumArtSearch‘ plug-in. The add-on searches the web for album art/images of the currently playing song. From the resulting images, one can be set as […]

4 October 2010
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What would you like to ask the Novacut team?

Here's your chance to ask the Novacut team your most burning questions regarding their innovative project to create a collaborative video editor. Leave your questions in the comment section before October 5th 1300 hrs UTC.

4 October 2010
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New Murrine Documentation project will make theme creation easier

Designers Ian ‘Izo’ Cylkowski and Dan Rabbit are to document the myriad of customisation options present in the new 0.98.0 Murrine GTK Engine release. The project aims to provide ‘a comprehensive guide’ for designers and […]

4 October 2010
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‘Lightness’ BURG theme

A new theme for graphical GRUB replacement BURG by ~SWOriginal (increasingly one of our favourite designers) has been released. Called ‘Lightness’ the theme was designed to feel ‘calm, clean & modern’ according to its designer, and certainly gives a beautifully minimalistic introduction to your boot time.

4 October 2010
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Auspicious signs for Maverick

A reader by the name of montini stopped by the OMG! Mailbox to point out something rather neat – if, to many, perfunctory. If you’re in a country where the new week starts on a […]

4 October 2010
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New Banshee features: Improved transcoding and shuffle by similar artists

One of the things I love about Banshee is how easy it is for people to fix their own issues without requiring extensive knowledge. Recently our community have be joined by two new developers who both started working on their own sexy features. Read on...

3 October 2010
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GUI deb creator ‘Ubucompilator’ hits 1.0 beta

The latest beta version of .deb creation assistant Ubucompilator is available for testing. The past 12 months have seen the tool mature considerably, with the 1.0 beta boasting many new additions: – A new style […]

3 October 2010
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Linux Format + Seif Lotfy = Good times

I interrupt normal proceedings to bring you a shameless plug for one of my favourite magazines – Linux Format – and one of my favourite people – Seif Lotfy – both of whom, for this […]

3 October 2010
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Faenza icon set comes to KDE

The popular Faenza icon set has been ported to KDE. Whilst the KDE version still requires a bit of polishing, lacking many application and action icons, it is complete enough for daily usage and makes […]

3 October 2010
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Ubuntu-style Emoticons for Pidgin

Ubuntu design team member Otto Greenslade blogged about a set of new Ubuntu-style emoticons for use on the Canonical design blog at the weekend – and you can now use them in Pidgin.

3 October 2010
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How to Install LibreOffice from a repository in Ubuntu

A temporary repository for LibreOffice – the newly-announced fork of OpenOffice – has been set up for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Debian-based distributions  to use.

3 October 2010
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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat T Shirts now available in Canonical store

Two new T Shirts for the Maverick Meerkat release of Ubuntu that comes out in just over a week have appeared in the Canonical Store.

2 October 2010