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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
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AppImage thumbnailer gets PPA

We’re big fans of the AppImage project – the distro-agnostic application packaging method that allows applications to run on any distribution with no installation required – so we’re thrilled to learn that ‘App Thumbnailer’ – […]

23 August 2010
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Lauf – the lightest launcher ever

Back in early July we featured ‘Alawalk’ – a lightweight launcher for the resource conscious. It was lean, mean and did its job. If you liked Alawalk but found the 72KiB RAm usage a bit […]

23 August 2010
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Gnash 0.8.8 Released, claims 100% of all YouTube videos now work

The latest version of open-source flash player ‘Gnash’ boasts that ‘100% of all YouTube videos’ should now work using it. Gnash can be run as a standalone application or as a plugin for most popular […]

23 August 2010
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What are your must have applications?

I have a problem. I’ll be the first to confess. It’s tearing me apart on the inside. Not a day goes by without me thinking about it, always at the back of my mind, in […]

23 August 2010