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‘A new start’ GTK theme – looks everybit as cool as it sounds

‘A new start’ GTK theme looks, from the word go, pretty much unlike anything else you’ve tried before. An aptly titled theme that has that oh-so aloof quality of actually being able to totally transform […]

7 August 2010
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Dude, you’re a 35 year old with a neck beard

As most of you probably know, I’m pretty much the equivalent of a newborn in the world of free software. This open source gig has been going for almost 30 years, but I only got […]

7 August 2010
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OMG! 5! – Five ways to free space in Ubuntu

Whilst many users seem to have more HDD space than they can shake a stick at (what does that phrase mean?) others are often left with less than a few GB's free to live in. If you're the latter - and hell, even if you're the former - here are 5 ways to free up some disk space in Ubuntu.

7 August 2010
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Meet Alawalk – possibly the lightest launcher ever!

Popular launcher applications Do and Kupfer may have some competition – say hello to the incredibly lightweight Alawalk. Alawalk, the brainchild of a developer named ‘hunterm‘, is a new launcher application made completely in plain bash. […]

7 August 2010
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LightSpark Vs Flash: Benchmarked

The team behind open-source Flash alternative LightSpark pushed out a new bug-fix release a few days ago. Seeing as we’re a few releases in, I felt now was a prime time to see just how […]

6 August 2010
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Ubuntu 10.10 Countdown Script lets you know how many days until meerkat lands – directly on your desktop

Stat junkies & Ubuntu addicts who need to know exactly how many days remain until everyones favourite Meerkat scuttles into release-land may wish to consider the following small notification script, created by ironic-gnome. The countdown […]

6 August 2010
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Vuze 4.5 released – adds new speed test, android support

The Vuze team have released version 4.5 of the popular BitTorrent client. This latest release provides users with a new speed test, support for transcoding and transferring content to Android phones and iOS 4. The new […]

6 August 2010
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Xpad – simple Sticky notes for your desktop

For efficient task management Ubuntu users are spoilt. Tomboy, GTG!, Tasque, Tasks and a slew of others besides; they’re all packed with awesome features that help you get what needs to be done, done! Now supposedly […]

6 August 2010
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Integrating Zeitgeist into GNOME: You decide which apps get patched (poll)

GNOME 3.0 is delayed and the Zeitgeist team has more time to integrate with the GNOME desktop. Daniel Siegel (the Cheese dude) had an idea during GUADEC that is worth giving a try… for Zeitgeist […]

5 August 2010
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Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 3 released – What’s new?

The third alpha release of the Ubuntu 10.10 development cycle has been made available to download. As this is a testing release is is not recommended for casual users but for development purposes only. Whilst […]

5 August 2010
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New Opera Snapshot fixes crashes, gets speed boost

I need to come up with a catchy name for the incremental development snapshot Opera releases – something like ‘Ohnother-Opera’. Yes. I am aware I am waffling so on to the news in hand… A new development […]

5 August 2010
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UDS-N announced, to be held in Orlando, Florida

Robbie Williamson has announced on Twitter that the next Ubuntu Developer Summit for the 11.04 release will be held in Orlando, Florida from the 25th – 29th October, 2010. Robbie says “With Disney AND Ubuntu there, […]

5 August 2010