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Ubuntu System Panel: Simple? Is it heck… [Opinion]

Ubuntu System Panel is a panel applet designed to simplify launching, managing and just generally using your Ubuntu system. The idea behind it is based on that of the popular OpenSUSE SLED applet (see screenshot […]

30 November 2009
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Shutter To Get Twitpic, yfrog etc Uploading Support

Shutter – an awesome screenshot, editing and uploading tool – will be adding twitter picture-type services to its roster of export options. A few days ago I posted about Shutter being an awesome way to […]

30 November 2009
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Proposed Lucid Theme “UbuntuSun” Available To Download

The artwork proposals for Lucid have begun getting underway this last week or two and the most interesting submission so far is UbuntuSun. Available in three variants: Dawn, Day & Dusk, the metacity theme is […]

30 November 2009
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ChromeOS Application Icons (To Use for Web Apps on Ubuntu)

The ChromeOS application menu has some cool icons for web applications, so I cheekily extracted them to use on Ubuntu — and upload here, for your convenience. All are 128×128 and look great in docks […]

29 November 2009
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Get The ChromeOS Application Menu In Ubuntu [Working Again]

Google ChromeOS has the ‘application menu’ in the browser: – You can, actually, get this in Google Chrome or Chromium. First you need to edit the command you start Chrome/ium with. Right click the menu […]

29 November 2009
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Visual Timeline For Lucid Lynx Release Schedule

MadsRH has created a Visual timeline for the Ubuntu Lucid Lynx release schedule, just like he did for Karmic. It’s gorgeous and informative. What more could you want? The use of flowers as a metaphor is especially great. Release […]

29 November 2009
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Install Google Picasa Photo Viewer In Ubuntu

Google Picasa on Windows comes coupled with an awesome image-viewer. Sadly Google didn’t make this available for Linux users of Picasa, but, thanks to Irakli Gozalishvili and a soul known as Caiacoa, you can install […]

29 November 2009
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MurrinaChrome – Best Chrome-like GTK Theme Yet

A few days ago I posted a gorgeous Emerald theme based on Google Waves’ interface. In that post I mentioned i couldn’t find a decent GTK theme to match it. Thankfully reader Nicolas came up […]

29 November 2009
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Get Applications That Didn’t Make The Ubuntu CD Available In One Download with ‘B-Sides’

“B-Sides” installs a selection of software that “didn’t make the Ubuntu disc” but “complements” the Ubuntu desktop well. Just like a B-side on a music CD! Keeping with Ubuntu’s ‘one application per task’ rule it […]

29 November 2009
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Google Wave Emerald Theme Is Way Too Gorgeous, Lonely

Google Wave has some beautiful window borders going on, and someone has taken the time to convert them into an Emerald theme thus bringing the beauty of Wave to you desktop. click to view bigger […]

27 November 2009
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Easy Imageshack Uploading In Ubuntu

Imageshack.us is a popular way to host images for free without needing to login and create an account. There are various ways to upload to Imageshack in Ubuntu – not least of which is the […]

27 November 2009
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Is The New gThumb A Potential F-Spot Killer?

gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop that allows users to manage, tag, sort, view and edit their photo collection from the one application. It can import photos directly from digital […]

26 November 2009