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Confirmed: that was, indeed, the new Ubuntu Light theme

Canonical design team member Otto Greenslade has confirmed that the new Ubuntu Light theme we showed you yesterday is indeed the real deal. Speaking on the Canonical design blog he details some of the more […]

9 August 2010
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Play games and help Science at the same time with ‘Foldit’

Kill some free time and help out science at the same time with Foldit – an experimental puzzle game that, simply by playing, helps computers to deal with bioinformatics and protein folding. Premise The basic […]

9 August 2010
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Ubuntu have “no plans to fork GNOME”

Ubuntu community manager Jono Bacon, in an interview with Austrian newsite derStandard.at, has reiterated that a fork of GNOME is not on the cards. Asked whether Ubuntu’s continuing additions, removals and tweaks to the stock GNOME environment could […]

9 August 2010
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Lightspark Release Candidate brings faster rendering, better memory consumption

The first release candidate of open-source flash alternative LightSpark 0.4.3 has been released. Faster rendering, reduced memory consumption and smoother video playback are some of the notable changes present in this release. Installation Ubuntu users will […]

9 August 2010
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Doing the LoCo-Motion with OMG! Ubuntu!

Ubuntu is all about community. A community that is distributed all around the world. If anyone should be given credit for spreading Ubuntu (Canonical Marketing Teams and the general media excluded) then it should be […]

9 August 2010
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Ubuntu Tweak adding ‘reset’ button – will make tweakers’ lives everywhere calmer

Ubuntu Tweak will be adding a ‘reset’ button after features and options which can be readily reset.. This latest feature once again makes Ubuntu Tweak a must-have application – never again will daring to customize […]

8 August 2010
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Alchemy lets you draw using your voice, in the dark, more

Whilst most drawing applications seek to provide users with as many possible ways to edit and draw accurately as possible, Alchemy doesn’t. The Java-based application seeks to give users ‘a way to explore and experiment with […]

8 August 2010
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Ubuntu 10.10 Light themes new look

The default Ubuntu light themes are getting a bit of a spruce in time for Ubuntu 10.10 – but how far a spruce will it go? Since we first posted this article it has been […]

8 August 2010
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Install Opera Mobile in Ubuntu (.deb)

A few days back we covered how to run Opera Mini – the super tiny mobile web browser from Opera – in Ubuntu. Today we’re looking at installing and using Opera Mobile – the larger, […]

8 August 2010
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Furious iPod video converter makes transcoding videos in Ubuntu easy

Furious iConverter is, as the name might suggest, a video conversion tool for use with iPod, iPod Touch & iPhone. The simple GTK interface provides users with a convenient front-end for converting any FFMpeg-supported video format into iPod/iPhone friendly MP4. […]

8 August 2010
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Banshee adds initial Meerkat Sound Menu support

Whilst much ado about nothing has been made concerning Ubuntu 10.10’s shiny new Sound Menu one question has been asked time and time again – will Banshee support it? The answer is yes. Bertand Lorentz […]

7 August 2010
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Redesigned Installer lands in Maverick

The first drop of the newly redesigned Ubiquity installer for Ubuntu 10.10 has landed in Maverick. We have previously blogged about the changes proposed for the Maverick installer but this is the first time that the new […]

7 August 2010