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Gnome Activity Journal Gets A New Look

GNOME Activity Journal, along with the engine that powers it ‘Zeitgeist‘, both of which will form part of the forthcoming GNOME 3, has been gifted with a very awesome new look. Hold on, GNOME Activity… […]

5 January 2010
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Lernid Review, 1.0 Release Next Week

Lernid had its first proper demo earlier this evening with “mock” event “Ubuntu Example Week“. The half-hour class really showed off Lernid in all it’s currently glory and really opened up eyes to its potential. […]

5 January 2010
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Live ‘Lernid’ Demo with Jono Bacon Today @ 7PM UTC

Lernid is a desktop application designed for connecting to and participating in online learning events for Ubuntu such as Ubuntu Open Week and Ubuntu Developer Week – all in one application. No more masses of […]

5 January 2010
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Official Ubuntu Desktop Support For Home Users

Trust me to miss the memo, but somewhere along the line Canonical started selling support services to home users as well as businesses and enterprises via the official Ubuntu Store. Before your eyes gloss over […]

5 January 2010
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Add-on Lets Thunderbird Use Ubuntu Notification System

Earlier today (which was just a repost of an article we posted very early last year!) we mentioned a Firefox add-on for getting Firefox to use the native Ubuntu notification system and ditching its own. […]

4 January 2010
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Presenting: OMG! The Ubuntu Newbie Guide!

How many of you once came across a cool sounding application and eagerly downloaded it only to find it was an alien sounding “.tar.gz” which, upon instinctively double clicking, did not do what you expected […]

4 January 2010
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One Add-on Lets Firefox Use Ubuntu Notification System

Firefox uses its own notification system for alerting users to various events. These can easily be missed on an Ubuntu system as users are used to seeing notifications appear in the top right-hand corner. Thankfully […]

4 January 2010
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Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

4 January 2010
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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