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Dell Inspiron 1300 ‘one click’ Wifi fix for Ubuntu

Do you have a Dell Inspiron 1300 with a blasted Broadcom wireless card and want a fix? Saa on the Ubuntu Forums has provided just that! Download the following folder [broken link], unzip and double […]

7 May 2010
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Newsdump: Netinstall Ubuntu, Opera repo bound & fix that ugly bootscreen

We get sent so many great ideas, awesome tutorials and see applications updates fire out updates quicker than a plasma canon hooked up to the national grid that even we can’t manage to keep up […]

6 May 2010
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How much would you pay for Five great Linux games?

How much would you pay for five really great Linux-compatible games? It really is up to you with ‘The Humble Indie Bundle’. It’s an exciting experiment in online retail & distribution — these games would […]

6 May 2010
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Chrome vs Midori

Both in response to my recent review of Midori and some argument… ehm, discussion, in yesterdays Ubuntuesday OMG! Podcast, I have taken on the task of running Midori and Google Chrome through a few tests […]

5 May 2010
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Mark Shuttleworth: No GNOME-Shell in Maverick

Every Ubuntu release is followed by Ubuntu Open Week during which Mark Shuttleworth holds a Q&A session where users can ask him pretty much anything. A condensed selection of highlights follow. Maverick will not be […]

5 May 2010
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minitunes Player makes Your music Collection look good

Minitube developer Flavio Tordini is currently developing another exciting and visually attractive project: a new music player titled ‘Minitunes‘. Now before the smart alecs at the back start groaning about ‘Yet Another Linux Music Player’ […]

5 May 2010
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Easy to use Lucid themed Conky bar

Conky is a  is a light-weight system monitor that can be customized extensively (Windows converts think ‘rainmeter’.) and the following Conky theme by Veoduendes certainly proves that. Called ‘Conky Ubuntu Lucid Theme’ (!) it’s designed, […]

5 May 2010
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Ubuntu Mono Theme Tray Icons for Caffeine

Add some Ubuntu Ambiance/Radiance style icons to Caffeine – the coffee-powered way to stop your screensaver or sleep-timer kicking in. Download the icons: [link since broken] Replace the files in /usr/share/caffeine/images/ Installing Caffeine If you don’t already […]

4 May 2010
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8 Slick CoverGloobus Themes

To celebrate CoverGloobus finally getting a Lucid-friendly PPA here are 8 hand-picked CoverGloobus themes from the art-mine that is DeviantArt. (Notice: 32bit users may have noticed by now that CoverGloobus for Lucid in the PPA […]

4 May 2010
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OMG! Ubuntu! Podcast ‘Ubuntuesday’: Episode 1

“The podcast for people who don’t like podcasts, brought to you by people who know nothing about podcasts.” Hello, hello, good evening. Yes, you read the title correctly! After two weeks delay since we announced […]

4 May 2010
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The most gorgeous Lucid Wallpaper. Ever.

We’ve featured pr09studio’s work before but this latest wallpaper set — Hurrah Ubuntu — is, in my eyes, arguably his greatest so far (and the rest are freaking awesome so that says a lot!). It […]

4 May 2010
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CoverGloobus & Gloobus Preview Come to Lucid

Lucid users missing their fix of desktop album are and slick file previews need miss no-more – CoverGloobus & Gloobus-Preview are now available for Lucid via the relevant PPA’s. Cover Gloobus We’ve mentioned/loved/raved/enteradjectivehere about Gover-Gloobus […]

4 May 2010