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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
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OMG! Interviews: Jono Bacon

Jono Bacon is a number of things in the open source community and is possibly one of the most well known faces associated with open source. He's been a public figure staying in the limelight ever since he got involved in the free software movement way back in the late 90s. From successful podcasts, albums, coding, writing books and being Canonical's community manager, Mr Bacon has certainly fried it all. (Ha!)

5 August 2010
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Download some OMG! Wallpapers!

I whipped up four OMG! wallpapers in three different resolutions for you hardcore fans to download and show the love for your favourite sources of open source news. In the pack you’ll find the following […]

5 August 2010
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A handful of Unity updates…

Ubuntu’s new netbook interface ‘Unity’ received a batch of big updates 2 days ago but, due to wrestling with the beasts known as Ralink chipsets, i’ve only just managed to update. What was added, what’s new […]

4 August 2010
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Ubuntu stack exchange now in public beta – great resource for getting answers

A new Ubuntu-orientated help platmform based on StackOverflow is now in public beta. “Stack… what?” Wikipedia sums it up neatly: – “Stack Overflow is a website featuring questions and answers on a wide range of […]

4 August 2010