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RTS ‘0 A.D’ Alpha 1 available

The first Alpha release of open source historical real-time strategy game ‘0 A.D’ has been made available via publishers Wildfire. The game, which has been in production since 2000 (!), strives for both historical accuracy […]

18 August 2010
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Messaging Menu support for Thunderbird is coming

The Narwhal may have only just gotten a name but it’s already going to please users of Mozilla’s ‘Thunderbird’ e-mail client: Messaging Menu integration is coming. For the moment users wishing to get Thunderbird messaging menu integration […]

18 August 2010
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Installing Picasa 3.8 in Ubuntu via WINE: What works, what doesn’t.

Google Picasa 3.8 was released yesterday to much online fanfare. A bunch of neat new features landed including: – Edit photos in Picnik directly from Picasa 3.8 Batch upload Photo properties and the show stealing […]

18 August 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04.1 Released

The first major ‘maintenance’ update to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS has been released. Ubuntu 10.04, being a ‘long term support’ release, will receive performance, bug & security fixes until April 2013. 10.04.1 is the first of these, […]

18 August 2010

Ubuntu 11.04 named ‘Natty Narwhal’, aims to impress

The name of Mavericks successor in the alliterative naming stakes has been revealed by Mark Shuttleworth to be ‘Natty Narwhal’. No, really it is. Our self-appointed benevolent dictator for life has posted a fluid reasoning […]

17 August 2010
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Fortune BURG theme adds Faenza style to boot time (Updated)

Fans of the great looking graphical GRUB boot loader replacement ‘BURG‘ will no doubt be pleased to see yet another sterling theme is now available to use, install and gush over at every single boot. Called […]

17 August 2010
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Want your Photo in Ubuntu 10.10? Deadline is this Friday!

Users wishing to submit photographs for potential inclusion in Ubuntu 10.10 have just a few more days left to do so. The contest, which takes place bi-annually via the Ubuntu Artwork Flickr group, will be closing […]

17 August 2010
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Midori 0.2.7 Benchmarked

Earlier today we reported on the release of Midori 0.2.7 but aside from new features and extensions has the lightweight browser gotten any faster? Sunspider It should be noted that the SunSpider benchmarks only measure […]

17 August 2010
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MIdori web browser 0.2.7 released – new features, new extensions, better speed

The latest version of GTK webkit based web browser Midori has clawed its way out of the barn and into release land. New Features In keeping with other popular browsers Midori now has support for […]

17 August 2010
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uTorrent Destined to Land on Linux Shores Soon

uTorrent, everyone’s favourite torrent client for Windows is apparently coming to Linux – and therefore Ubuntu! The following was stated on the uTorrent idea which received a large number of votes: “We’re making good progress on the […]

17 August 2010
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Seif Speaks: Interviewing Mr. Gwibber (Ryan Paul)

I met Ryan Paul at UDS last may and I must say I was star struck (I am star struck most of the time at UDS anyhow). As a badass editor at arstechnica and the man who started gwibber I thought it would be nice to interview for OMG! Ubuntu!

17 August 2010
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Remove thumbs.db files from folders automatically

Windows thumbnail cache files (thumbs.db) are useful for speeding up file browsing on Windows-based operating systems but are largely useless in Ubuntu. Granted, they aren’t a massive space-hogger nor are they any sort of threat, […]

16 August 2010