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Docky Getting Liferea "Helper", Dropbox Docklet

Crikey on a bike! It’s another Docky post! No, this isn’t turning into OMG! Docky! but development is quite breathtakingly fast on it so there’s always lots to tell you about… Read All About It […]

3 January 2010
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Impression Themes Once Again Proposed For Ubuntu

The impression themes – already available in Karmic via the community-themes package, have been proposed for inclusion in Lucid Lynx. These updated version of Impression sport cleaner lines, more cohesive design considerations and a few […]

3 January 2010
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Opera 10.5 Released for Linux, Is Faster Than Chrome!

The Opera development team have given all Linux users something to smile about this fresh new years day – the Pre-Alpha of Opera 10.5! Opera 10.5 Pre Alpha looking pretty “Blazingly fast” First impressions are […]

1 January 2010
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Songbird 1.5 gets Video Playback Feature

Songbrid has gained video playback capabilities in the beta for forthcoming 1.5.0 release “Led Zepplin”. Video formats/codecs supported so far are WMV, MPEG-4, Theora and H.264, though the songbird team themselves note that “support is […]

1 January 2010
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Ubuntu Tweak Gets New User-based Website, New Release

Ubuntu Tweak – a popular tweaking application for Ubuntu – funnily enough – today launched its new website, which can be found at http://ubuntu-tweak.com/. Website + App = Amazing! The new website, to be known […]

31 December 2009
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A Look Back At Docky in 2009

Dock application ‘Docky’ only came into its singular being this year yet already is one of the most popular 3rd party applications available for Linux (though here’s hoping it makes it into ‘the repo’s come […]

31 December 2009
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Meet Ailurus (AKA Ubuntu Tweak On Steroids)

Ailurus is an Ubuntu enhancement and application management programme designed to help Ubuntu users tweak, tune and get more from their systems. Ailurus really does pack in a ton of common enhancement tricks and tips, […]

30 December 2009
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Ubuntu 64bit Really Is Faster Than 32bit

The usual story given to a user who asks “is 64bit Ubuntu is worth it?” on the Ubuntu Forums  is a muddle of “not really…”, “not that much faster…”, “if what you got works, stay […]

30 December 2009
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Auto-Queue Similar Tracks In Rhythmbox Using Last.FM

I posted earlier about Banshee’s magical playlist generator that queues songs in your library based on them sounding similar. Rhythmbox users can get something similar by making use of Last.FM reccomendations via the Dynamic Tracks […]

29 December 2009
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Banshee Playlist Generator ‘Mirage’

Mirage is a automatic playlist generator for popular media player Banshee. After scanning your music collection, Mirage will then “queue” up a selection of songs based on the choice of tracks you ask it to […]

29 December 2009
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Pino 0.1.0 Released

Linux Twitter application ‘Pino’ may be a relative new-comer to the desktop, but today saw it’s first stable release. We reviewed Pino a few weeks ago and were left suitably impressed. The development since then […]

28 December 2009
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Ubuntu Was More Popular Than Britney Spears In 2009

With 2009 drawing to a close i thought it would be interesting to kick of a series of retrospective posts about Ubuntu in 2009. What better way than to kick off with Ubuntu’s popularity this […]

28 December 2009