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Commodore 64 Resurrected, Runs Ubuntu

8-bit 80’s computer king Commodore 64 has been resurrected for a new generation – albeit with significantly more memory than the 64kB it originally boasted and – best of all – with Ubuntu as its […]

29 March 2010
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New Ubuntu Window Button Concepts by Izo Make Glorious Sense

Following Mark Shuttleworth’s gloriously intriguing statement that Ubuntu 10.10 will experiment with “innovative” options on the right-hand side of window borders, many designers have begun mocking up their proposals in earnest. Workflow Mock up by […]

29 March 2010
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Nautilus Thumbnail Improvement Lands in Lucid

A nice surprise to me – and many of you who commented on our earlier report on Nautilus adding a nicer border around thumbnails – is that the latest upstream release of Nautilus in Lucid includes […]

29 March 2010
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OMG’s Top 5 wallpapers from the Ubuntu 10.04 wallpaper shortlist

The wallpapers shortlisted for Ubuntu 10.04 have been chosen and will soon be whittled down again to those included on the release of Ubuntu Lucid. Below are OMG!’s top five wallpapers from that selection and […]

29 March 2010
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Nicer thumbnail borders coming to a Nautilus near you

Everyone knows that it’s the little things that matter and Nautilus has a fair share of things that need addressing in that area. Hylke Bons, on the GNOME mailing list, has offered up his improvement […]

29 March 2010
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Gwibber in Lucid: Adding More Columns

Short post to help people get the most out of Gwibber as a lot of readers keep asking me “How I got a ‘multiple columns/tweetdeck style’ Gwibber?”. 1. Default Gwibber This is how Gwibber looks […]

28 March 2010
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Photoshop CS5’s showpiece is a feature GIMP has had for years

The whole internet is buzzing with this at the moment and, well, it’d be crazy for us not to at least mention it. Photoshop product manager Bryan O’Neil Hughes posted a short video on YouTube […]

28 March 2010
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Firefox 3.7 Pre-Alpha Available; Still slower than Chrome, Opera

Another pre-alpha version of Firefox 3.7 for Linux has been made available. Speed improvements aside there is no discernible difference between this release and the last Pre-Alpha for Linux users, but for those who live […]

28 March 2010
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Docky just keeps on giving: Docky Application Menu

Witness the first iteration of an application menu docklet for Docky: – Video by Ricotz, Thanks once again to GhostLyrics Also please try to keep comments on topic Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

28 March 2010
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Xubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 remains borderline irrelevant

Although not many readers of OMG! Ubuntu! use Xubuntu I thought it’d be polite of us to check in with the Xubuntu team and see what was going on in their forthcoming release of Xubuntu […]

28 March 2010
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Docky Adds Session Docklet by Default

Remember that awesome scroll-tastic session management docklet that we drooled lovingly about middle of last week? Well Docky now includes it by default! Hurrah! Users of the DOcky PPA will see this slip in via […]

28 March 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 Window Buttons back on the right (sort of)

Welcome back to another round of Eyes down! Look in! where we briefly run-down some of the minor changes that Lucid has garnered over the last few days that we almost didn’t pick up on… […]

28 March 2010