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Sonar theme pack for Ubuntu – give your desktop a green makeover (link fixed)

OpenSUSE’s default GNOME theme ‘Sonar’ is often regarded as one of the best Gnome themes around. That is, of course, open to debate but the green hues and light gradients used by the Chameleons’ theme […]

12 August 2010
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Songbird for Linux: Not extinct yet, deb’s for the latest version

Official development and support for music-player Songbird on Linux was culled several months back but thanks to dedicated community support Linux users can still keep up with the Joneses and benefit from all the latest fixes n’ […]

12 August 2010
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Firefox 4 Beta 3 released

The third beta of the Firefox 4 development cycle has been released. What’s new?  Errr, for Linux users precious little in terms of eye-candy or new buttons to press but boat loads of bug fixes, […]

12 August 2010
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Chipmunk – Sweet little GTK Last.FM Player

Last.fm lovers addicted to music streaming service should cancel their therapy and check out the following shiny new application named ‘Chipmunk’. Created by Arch Linux user Andy Kluger, who has a self-confessed dependency on Last.fm, the […]

12 August 2010
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Seif Speaks: My Sexy Desktop

Well I received a lot of comments and mails about my overall *sexy* desktop layout and look. So to get everyone down a bit here is what you need to use and set up to […]

12 August 2010
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New Ubuntu Light themes land in Maverick

Just a quick heads up to Maverick testers and early adopters – the new-look Ubuntu Light themes are due to land in Ubuntu 10.10 any second. You need only run an update to receive them. […]

12 August 2010
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New Shutter release adds UbuntuOne Uploading, monochrome icon & hosting fixes

Shutter – easily the best screenshot tool ever created – has finally shimmied out a new release, packed full of crazy new goodness for us all to enjoy. UbuntuOne file uploading Essentially all the UbuntuOne […]

11 August 2010
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Banshee 1.7.4 released, adds user manual,

Banshee 1.7.4 has been released today adding access to a user manual as well as:- Duplicate Genre solver in Metadata Fixup extension Support for Amazon MP3 purchases containing PDFs and videos Improved Metadata Fixup support […]

11 August 2010
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A technical look at the OMG! User Awarding System

This is a very technical post about the basics and fundamentals of the OMG! App… Taken from the GNOME Wiki The idea being OMG! is to have a central user awarding system where users collect […]

11 August 2010
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Periodic Table Wallpaper – A Lot Cooler Than it Sounds

If your life has been lacking a well designed, slighty humorous but oh-so informative Peridoic Table wallpaper then say hello to this Nobel-ium (no really, that is the best pun I can do.) slice of pixel perfect. […]

11 August 2010
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F-Spot 0.7.2 Released

It might not be Ubuntu 10.10’s photo manager of choice but the F-Spot machine continues to chug along apace. Version 0.7.2 of the photo management application has just been released, coming a mere four weeks […]

11 August 2010
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Enable HQ WebGL graphics in Firefox 4 Beta

Of the many new features Mozilla are stuffing the next edition of their premier browser with is support for the 'work in progress' HTML 3D graphics API WebGL. This will provide high-quality 3D graphics in-browser without the need for plugins. OMG!'s good friend Bilal "bug crusher" Akhtar sent over some instructions for getting it up and running in Ubuntu Lucid which i've printed below.

11 August 2010