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Ubuntu One has cool new features for Maverick

Ubuntu One has many changes and new features planned for release alongside Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat this October. These new features such as Windows syncing and improvements to speed might be just the thing users […]

20 August 2010
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GNOME’s SeedKit gets public release, aims to bring web tech to desktop apps

The first public release of GNOME’s new ‘SeedKit‘ library and viewer has been released. Seedkit allows developers to build and integrate web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript into their applications, creating entirely native, […]

19 August 2010
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UbuntuAds latest promo video shows off Ubuntu 10.10 Unity in slick style

Ddorda of the UbuntuAds project hit me up with a link to their latest promotional creation for Ubuntu 10.10. At a mere 39 seconds long the video shows off the new Unity netbook interface in […]

19 August 2010
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Unity 0.2.28: A quick recap of Unity

Canonicals’ Neil Jagdish Patel posted the following news onto the Ayatana mailing list and whilst most regular readers will already be up to speed on these features/additions/changes it gives a nice way to provide a […]

19 August 2010
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Install the Mint Menu in Ubuntu

Hands up if you’ve ever seen Ubuntu-based Linux Mint’s rather slick menu? Keep you hands up if you’ve ever wanted to install it in Ubuntu? Wow. That’s a lot of hands! Thankfully KdotJ over on the Ubuntu […]

19 August 2010
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Python Window Organizer – organize your windows using the keyboard

PyWO allows users the ability to organize windows on the desktop using nothing but keyboard shortcuts. Features: Move window in any direction and snap it to other windows’ edges Resize (expand or shrink) window in […]

19 August 2010
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CLICompanion makes getting comfortable with the command line a cinch

Scared, intimidated or just out-right confused by the command line interface? You neededn’t be with CliCompanion. Whilst the command line is a powerful, and impressive tool most users don’t need to go near it thanks […]

19 August 2010
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Mark Shuttleworth talks Unity at DebConf 10

Mark Shuttleworth talks about Unity, the new shell for Ubuntu Netbook Edition at DebConf 10 which took place earlier this month in New York City. In the video Mark covers the main aspects of Unity, […]

19 August 2010
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Ginn – Forcing non-multitouch-aware applications to support multitouch in Ubuntu

With the release of Canonical’s uTouch framework providing Multi-touch support in Ubuntu 10.10 many of us have been wondering how everyday applications, those not designed for multi-touch per se but rather clicks and keyboard presses, […]

19 August 2010
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Readers choice: Ask Collabora’s director some questions

Very soon we will be interviewing Rob McQueen, the co-founder and a Director of Collabora, an open source consulting company headquartered in the UK but with offices in Montreal, Barcelona and Brussels, and 70 hackers worldwide. They are responsible for much of the work on the gstreamer and telepathy frameworks used in many of your favourite applications, as well as the PiTiVi video editor.

19 August 2010
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Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 Second Edition released

Just a quick heads up, we released the Second Edition of the Ubuntu Manual for Lucid yesterday to coincide with the point release for 10.04 LTS. Not much has changed from the first edition, apart […]

19 August 2010
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LinApp website provides an awesome list of commercial Linux apps

Today we got an email in our inbox from a person named Marko who wanted to share with us a website that his company is working on. The site, called Lin App is aimed at […]

19 August 2010