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Deluge Download Stats Come To Docky, CoverGloobus Preferences Get Makeover

I know, i know – you’re sick to your back teeth of Docky/Gloobus posts but the development team don’t make it easy, y’know, by throwing in all these awesome new docklets and helpers… I’ve actually […]

19 January 2010
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Install GNOME Activity Journal in Ubuntu

The GNOME Activity Journal (which we’ve covered a bazillion times before, see here) is getting better and better by the minute! Developer Seif Lotfy posted the following video of it in action and i can […]

19 January 2010
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Nautilus Just Got Gorgeous

The Nautilus file-manager included in Ubuntu is… well.. crowded. We already saw some changes developers are taking to tame to the vast areas of wasted space and useless buttons in our over-view of Ubuntu Lucid […]

18 January 2010
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Lubuntu 10.04 Alpha 1 – Visual Overview

April 29th will see the release of new addition to the Ubuntu family. Joining Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu will be a new lightweight version – ‘Lubuntu’. (And no, the ‘L’ doesn’t stand for lightweight! More […]

18 January 2010
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Phew! Here we go again..

Any regular readers who chew down OMG! Ubuntu’s! posts outside of a feed-reader should, hopefully, notice there’s been a bit of a spot and polish on the theme around here.  If you just read “posts” […]

18 January 2010
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Deskcut – Easily Create URL Shortcuts In Ubuntu

Ever tried creating a URL shortcut with Firefox in Ubuntu only to find yourself frustrated? Yes that does sound the opening line to an insurance advert, but it’s not! Easily creating desktop shortcuts to webpages […]

15 January 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Alpha 2 Released

The second Alpha of the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx development cycle has been released. This is the second of three Alpha releases, the last of which will arrive on February 25th. This will be followed […]

15 January 2010
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Let Ubuntu know what applications you think should be included…

Ever wanted to let Ubuntu know which applications you want to see included in future releases? Well here’s your chance! Ubuntu Forum Council member Matthew Helmke – who also co-authored one of the books that […]

14 January 2010
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Change Notification Bubble Colours In Karmic

Ubuntu Forum user genaroneto has posted an excellent tutorial on how to change the colour of the Notification bubbles in Karmic to one of your choosing. I won’t re-print the entire tutorial here as it’s […]

13 January 2010
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Quirky Wallpaper: Top 10 Recent Cinema Releases As Your Wallpaper

IMPloader is a small script that sets your wallpaper as a collage of posters from the current top 10 cinema releases. One caveat is that the script pulls its ‘data’ from a US-based soruce, meaning […]

13 January 2010
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Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.0 Finally released; Tons Of New Features

Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.0 has now been released – just over a week after the launch of the online user-interactive database – UTCOM – that the application draws its data from. New features in 0.5.0 include: […]

10 January 2010
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OpenShot 1.0 Stable Released; Best Linux Video Editor

Video Editor OpenShot announced the release of it’s seminal version 1.0 earlier today packing in so many new features, improvements and bug fixes I’m not sure I’ll be able to mention them all! The full […]

9 January 2010