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How To Stop WiFi Starting on Boot in Ubuntu

To most of us Ubuntu starting the Wi-Fi connection automatically on log-in is a great boon – it lets us get online much quicker. For some, however, it is an annoyance. Below is an easy […]

7 June 2010
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Many hands make the light work; few make it shine

Ubuntu lives in a special place between Windows and Mac OS X reserved only for Linux: more shine than Windows, less than OS X, resulting in a steaming pile of mediocrity. Since I’ve been involved in the Ubuntu […]

7 June 2010
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Banshee getting full iPod/iPhone support – could still become Maverick default?

As part of Novell’s annual Hack week event Alan McGovern, of Moonlight and MonoTorrent fame, will be working on the much requested libgpod binding and integration work for Banshee ” which has the potential to […]

6 June 2010
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Moovida core media player is banshee with ads

Moovida, the popular cross-platform GStreamer-using media centre, are lunching a new desktop media player application ” called Moovida Core -  as part of its’ ‘Moovida 2.0‘ strategy. The player, which uses Banshee as its backend, […]

6 June 2010
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Quirky Wallpaper: Live Earth wallpaper

This could be you! I love space, and, more specifically I love space wallpapers as my wallpaper. During exam time (like now) I usually set some motivational wallpaper like “Get the hell off Facebook and […]

6 June 2010
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Turn your Mouse Movements Into a Desktop Wallpaper

Turn your mouse movements into a zany desktop wallpaper with IOGraph. Developed by Moscow designer Anatoly Zenkov & his colleague Andrey Shipilov, the Java application  is set to run in the background while you go about your everyday ‘computing’. During this […]

6 June 2010
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Y’know what would be cool? A Google panel applet

A GNOME panel applet to search the internet and local files, that sits in your panel like the one in Unity would be awesome, but I can’t find one for the life of me. I’ve […]

6 June 2010
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Toolbar editor now in Nautilus-Elementary PPA

Nautilus-Elementary have added a toolbar editor in an update to their simplified-spin of the titular file browser. We showed you a preview of the new toolbar editor a week ago, along with a link to […]

5 June 2010
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Achieve desktop Zen with minimal Wallpaper

We’ve featured a lot of wallpapers recently ” but they’ve all been quite striking, colourful or, in the words of my mother ‘”fancy”. http://www.minimalwall.com features backgrounds that are far removed from that and, as such, […]

4 June 2010
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Display Song Lyrics on the Ubuntu Desktop

Want to sing-along with your favourite songs in Ubuntu? There are several desktop applications that can automatically display lyrics to the currently playing song.

4 June 2010
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What do you love/hate about Ubuntu?

I’m interested to see what you guys think the biggest selling points, and the biggest issues are in Ubuntu right now. I use Ubuntu because it’s fast, reliable, secure, pretty and safe. It lets me […]

4 June 2010
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Set your Desktop, GDM & Plymouth wallpaper as the same image

Want your desktop, GDM background & Plymouth boot image to match? Using gargantuo‘s Global Wallpaper script you can easily do so. Download Download the script @ gnome-look.org Installation Extract the archive Open a terminal and […]

3 June 2010