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Call for Mock-ups: OMG! User Awarding System needs a Trophy Viewer

OMG! OMG! OMG! We are close to releasing…. a beta. After porting the daemon to Mono with Chris Szikszoy (Docky fame) and with the support of David Siegel and Alex Launi (both from Do Fame […]

16 August 2010
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Ding, ding – Sound Applet mock-ups round II

Wyatt Kirby, whose sound applet mock-ups found favourable fandom both here and on Mark Shuttleworth’s blog, has put pixel to, er, palette and come up with a newly revised design. For those new to the whole ‘Sound […]

16 August 2010
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Worry ye not: Banshee for Windows is coming

A great many of us have to keep Windows knocking around for gaming, work or through the ball and chain of some proprietary software we were learned in. A media player doesn’t exactly fit this […]

16 August 2010
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Rapid Photo Downloader 0.3.1 Develops Netbook-Friendly Interface

A new version of super-slick image utility ‘Rapid Photo Downloader‘ developed into release-land a few days back. The update sees a new netbook-friendly main window, improved translations, and now shows the amount of free space […]

16 August 2010
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Multi-touch comes to Ubuntu 10.10

Canonical have just announced the release of uTouch 1.0 – a new multi-touch and gesture ‘stack’ to ship with Ubuntu 10.10 From the official press release: – “Our multi-touch team has worked closely with the […]

16 August 2010
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SparkleShare Alpha 2 Available for testing

The second Alpha release of open-source on-line file storage (and a lot more besides) SparkleShare has been made available for testing. This release sees many previously reported bugs resolved and plenty more unreported bugs also […]

16 August 2010
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iX – Ubuntu-based OS for iPhone / iPod Touch

Running a custom version of Ubuntu on your iPhone or iPod Touch may sound crazy but it’s yet another example of the versatile and adaptable nature of Linux as a whole. Now, If your first […]

16 August 2010
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Update Manager gets an update for Maverick

Aha! See what I did with the title there? Recently I’ve found myself using Update Manager or Synaptic more often than a terminal to run update/upgrade commands. I don’t know why, but they feel snappier […]

16 August 2010
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Tyler on Ubuntu: Jailbreaking and Why it’s good for us.

In case you all haven’t heard, back in late July, Jailbreaking devices was ruled to be legal by the United States government, and similar bits of legislator are seeing movement in other notable countries (although […]

16 August 2010
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Unity Developer Talks Shop. Simply.

Before I make for the land of slumber tonight let me leave you with a quick read that doubles up as a must read not only for Unity fans but for those with a naturally curious disposition.

15 August 2010
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make breadcrumbs in Nautilus toast by switching the default back to ‘text entry’.

Love to kick your file-browsing old-school? Think that the default navigation bar in Nautilus in crumby? Want to switch back to the traditional olde ‘location entry’ mode, rendering those breadcrumbs toast? Okay, enough of the […]

15 August 2010
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Pongo records screen activity, audio & webcam video in one video: a screecasters dream

Pongo is a small, free screen recording utility that merges video of your desktop, your webcam and sound from your microphone together, out putting it into one single .ogv file ready to edit, adjust or […]

15 August 2010