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What’s in a weather indicator?

We at the Indicator-Weather project need you to do some forecasting for us. (World groans – ed) Whilst we’ve got a pretty kicking preview that works but what we really need is to find out […]

17 July 2010
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Wine 1.2 STable Released – 2 years, 23, 000 changes

Wine 1.2 stable has finally been released today after more than two years of development. The release sees support for 64bit applications, new Tango-based icons (props to Joel Holdsworth who helped lead the work on […]

16 July 2010
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Worried about the meerkat Sound Menu? todays update screams ‘don’t be!’

I know that many readers have had concerns over the direction that Ubuntu 10.10’s new sound menu has been taking and it would be fair to say that a significant section of those were centred […]

16 July 2010
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Meerkat Software Centre starts getting organized

Short sharp update: As the Software Centre continues to improve during the Maverick development cycle you can count on us to make a song and dance about every trivial update. Thing is, I don’t consider […]

16 July 2010
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Latest update to Unity brings Global search, App indicator support & new ‘Quicklists’

Canonical’s Neil Jagdish Patel has just announced a new release of Unity – Ubuntu’s forthcoming ‘Ubuntu Light’ interface as well as the Ubuntu Netbook interface replacement. This update brings global search in the ‘Places’ pane […]

16 July 2010
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Spotify Linux preview now supports Spotify unlimited subscribers

Spotify Unlimited subscribers are now able to use the Spotify for Linux preview. Prior to now the preview was only available to Premium subscribers – Spotify’s highest tier package – but in an update today […]

15 July 2010
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OpenSuse 11.3 Released

The latest version of Novell-sponsored distribution OpenSuse has been released today. OpenSuse 11.3 brings a boatload of brilliant new features to users desktop including secure online file backup via SpiderOak, tracker file indexing (replacing beagle), btrfs support & […]

15 July 2010
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Enable Chrome Web Apps in Chromium on Ubuntu

If you’re chomping at the bit to try out some of Googles Web App features in Chrome/ium then read on! Google announced that a new Chrome Web Store was being built earlier this year at […]

15 July 2010
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Distro Agnostic packaging: Making AppImages

Welcome to the world of Distro agnostic application packaging thanks to the ‘1 app = 1 file’ AppImage initiative from the Elementary-Project. Yesterday we waxed lyrical about the ‘portability’ factor of AppImages – the one-click […]

15 July 2010
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7 days with Emesene 2 Pre-Alpha

Emesene2, the successor to the popular Windows Live Network-based Instant Messaging application ‘Emesene’, recently launched a testing PPA for foolhardy users to install and test the current pre-alpha builds. Emesene2 has been rewritten completely from […]

15 July 2010
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BURG Boot loader installation, themeing & more gets even easier with BURG Manager app

The process of installing BURG – the easy way to get a graphical, good-looking bootloader – has been made easier thanks to a new ‘BURG Manager’ application which provides users with a graphical front-end for configuring and managing various […]

14 July 2010
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Vote now for an awesome new Ubuntu help platform

Spend a minute today to help make the lives of yourself, other Ubuntu users and even the dear developers who toil so hardy over code that little bit easier by voting up a proposal for […]

14 July 2010