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Homosapien Metacity Customizer – Tweak Homosapien Online Then Download It

So we’ve droned on and on and on about the make-it-default-already proposed Lucid Metacity Homosapien. It’s amazing, beautiful stuff. Zac Barton – fast becoming my favourite themer – has now created an online customization tool […]

11 February 2010
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Elementary OpenShot Icon Theme

OpenShot is an awesome video editor that we love around here. Elementary is an awesome theme that we love around here. Get the idea? OpenShot is fully themeable (which a lot of people don’t seem […]

11 February 2010
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Facebook Chat in Pidgin & Empathy With No Plugins!

Facebook made their ‘Facebook chat’ protocol all awesome and nice today by adding support for the Jabber/XMPP protocol. This means you can have facebook chat in Pidgin, Empathy, etc without the need for buggy third-party […]

10 February 2010
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An Application Ballot Screen For Ubuntu? Oh Jeez…

The following idea, proposed on Ubuntu Brainstorm, puts forward the sugeestion that users should be allowed to configure the application set before installation. Sort of like the Windows Browser ballot but for, well, pretty much […]

10 February 2010
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How To Replace The Pino Notification Area Icon

Pino is a fantastic little twitter application. We’ve blogged about it many times previously and know many of you love it. One thing that still comes up as an ‘issue’ whenever we blog about it […]

10 February 2010
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Gwibber goes TweetDeck in Lucid

Ubuntu supremo Jono Bacon has been blogging about Gwibber and tweeting in Ubuntu Lucid – including the awesome screenshot of a mutli-column Gwibber as shamlessly pasted above. He rather eloquently raves about it: – No […]

9 February 2010
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How To Install Nvidia Drivers Manually in Ubuntu

Installing Nvidia drivers manually isn’t as big of a deal as it sounds. It’s literally a few button pushes, a round of “Ok”, “Ok”, “Ok” and a reboot. In many respects it’s the easiest way […]

8 February 2010
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‘Lumus’ & Human-Lucid – Yet More Proposed Lucid Themes…

You know the drill by now… The following are proposed themes for inclusion in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Lumus One aspect where this theme stands out is that it’s not dark AND it’s not a […]

8 February 2010
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AbiWord & Gnumeric To Replace OpenOffice in Ubuntu Netbook Edition

A few days ago we shared word that the OpenOffice.org suite of apps was to be dropped from default installs of Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition. Many of you cheered, many of you did a double-take […]

8 February 2010
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‘Unity’ Is The Latest Theme Proposed for Ubuntu 10.04

Unity is yet another theme proposal for inclusion in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Image link since broken Where Unity differs from other proposed GTK themes is that it aims to offer a complete “fluid” look […]

8 February 2010
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A Few New Features In Gnome-Shell

GNOME-Shell needs no introduction. I’m sure many of you all know what it is, have opinions on it and probably you will have tried it out. But have you tried it out lately? Progress OMG! […]

8 February 2010
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Lucidity – Metacity Available

We posted the awesome Lucidity Ubuntu 10.04 theme mock-up earlier – along with a remark that it wouldn’t take long for the theme to err in to life… Well the Metacity has been made, even […]

7 February 2010