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Much coveted MSN VoIP support lands

The papyon and telepathy-butterfly elements which power Empathy’s support for MSN has finally landed support for the p2pv2 protocol and enabled VoIP support. Since the latest Beta of the official Microsoft MSN Messenger Live only […]

24 August 2010
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GNOME Activity Journal 0.5.0 adds ‘experimental’ toolbar

The GAJ & Zeitgeist teams have announced the 0.5.0 development release of  GNOME Activity Journal – the user-friendly frontend for finding out ‘when’ you did a certain activity/file edit etc  rather than ‘where’.

24 August 2010
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F-Spot 0.8.x is going to be LTS

Ever the hard worker F-Spot maintainer Ruben Vermeersch announced on IRC that he intends to continue the 0.8 branch of F-Spot as an LTS series. Furthermore as of yet unannounced major changes are coming in […]

24 August 2010
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Meerkat’s Software Centre gets a background…

Don’t ever say we no longer keep you up-to-date with the trivial: The Ubuntu Software Centre in Ubuntu 10.10 now has a background! Look nice, non? The background is also displayed when viewing more information […]

24 August 2010
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Indicator-Workspaces does what it says on the tin

As a self-confessed Indicator-fanboy I relish seeing projects like the following pop up that set out to ‘upgrade/replace’ existing gnome applets into modern, neat and orderly indicator applets. Indicator-Workspaces by George Dumitrescu (AppImage Thumbnailer) is […]

24 August 2010
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*Shameless plug alert*

I couldn’t help but grin with a bit of humbleness at the front page of the very awesome commercial Linux software catalogue site ‘Lin-app.com‘ today…   Thanks guys :) Article originally appeared on www.omgubuntu.co.uk | […]

24 August 2010
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BURG fan? Put your talents to work and help create this theme

Bored? Nothing better to do? Why not help out Manu Järvinen who mailed us a plea for help on turning his rather swish BURG theme idea into a boot loading beauty. “I am a designer […]

24 August 2010
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Zeitgeist continues to morph into skynet…

Everything John Connor fought against in the future is coming to pass.

23 August 2010
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GUADEC 2010 videos available

Flumotion streamed the event but now the videos are finally available for download. Get the goods here since the videos currently aren’t broken down into individual talks yet it is useful to have the GUADEC […]

23 August 2010
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Dramatic desktop theming script ‘Elegant gnome’ gets even better

It’s been a good month or two since we last spoke about the all-in-one script ‘Elegant Gnome’ which takes your drab default desktop and paints it with pretty – with no hassle involved! The pack […]

23 August 2010
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New Ubuntu Tweak Beta adds ‘desktop recovery’ feature

Where would we be without Ubuntu Tweak? Arguably one of the most popular applications for end-users it just keeps on giving. A new backup feature will be showing up in the next stable release and […]

23 August 2010
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Rainlendar puts calendar sexy on your desktop

Rainlendar is a self-described ‘feature rich’ calendar for your desktop that allows for extensive customization, tweaking and personalization. Events can be set with an alarm for notification and the to-do list makes a handy extra. Rainlendar is […]

23 August 2010