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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
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Ubuntu Mono Icon for Screenlets

MadnessRed mailed me with his tip on how to make a mono-panel matching Screenlets icon. You take this .svg by Darkhaseo and change the colour from ‘606060’ to ‘EAD3D0’ via your preferred medium (gedit is quickest). For […]

3 June 2010
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Rhythmbox’s new icon – whether a mistake or real, I hope it stays.

There may not be many differences ‘on the surface’ in Maverick’s first alpha, but I couldn’t help but notice one visual change -a new Rhythmbox icon. How much nicer is that than the ‘current’ icon? […]

3 June 2010
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Celebrate Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha with these awesome Meerkat-inspired Wallpapers

Whether you intend to download and install Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 or not  the following meerkat-themed wallpapers will certainly get you in the Maverick-y mood. Made by the super talented Joern, whom you can find […]

3 June 2010