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GIMP To Be Removed From Lucid; F-Spot Has Challengers

UDS Wednesday kicked off with a super interesting session; a meeting entitled “Application selection in the default install“. Over three posts I’ll present the main ideas and discussions from these meetings: Whittling the default game […]

18 November 2009
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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Will Include Fewer Preinstalled Games

GNOME’s iconic Tetris clone Quadrapassel completes its GTK4 port, adds touch controls, mobile mode, improved scoring, and more gameplay features.

18 November 2009
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ChromeOS To Be Demoed In 2 Days Time…

It’s a slow news day and this is mildly exciting so here’s the deal: Google ChromeOS will be “demoed” in 2 days time. This is, once again, according to TechCrunch. Although now retreating on their […]

17 November 2009
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Pidgin Preferences Menu Gets A Netbook-happy Makeover

Pidgin’s preferences menu will be getting a overhaul in time for it’s next major release. Keen to solve the current “bug reports” regarding Pidgin’s preferences window not fitting on a netbook sized screen, a plucky […]

17 November 2009
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Bookmark Sync Now In Google Chrome

Bookmark Sync in Chromium landed a few days ago and today sees the turn of Google Chrome Unstable gaining this feature with the latest dev channel update. As with Chromium you simply need to add […]

17 November 2009
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Adobe Air 2 Beta Now Available

Adobe have today made available a Beta version of Adobe Air 2. New Features, Better Capabilities New features that Adobe Air 2 brings with it include: – Ability to detect and use USB devices Native […]

17 November 2009
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Minitube 0.8 Released – Flash-free HD YouTube Video On Your Desktop

MiniTube 0.8 was released today bringing with the ability to play HD videos from YouTube, flash-free and directly on your desktop. Yes, this doesn’t require the need for Flash! At all! Also new in the […]

17 November 2009
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Ubuntu Netbook Remix is Being Renamed to Something Better

The familiar name of Ubuntu Netbook Remix will disappear when the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ‘Lucid Lynx’ goes live, in favour of a more official sounding name: Ubuntu Netbook Edition. An official blueprint for this change […]

16 November 2009

Wait—is an Ubuntu Music Store Planned?!

So, there’s an interesting meeting scheduled for Wednesday at the upcoming Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) titled, droolingly, “Ubuntu One Music Store“. —Yeah, I know! The linked blueprint for the idea the discussion is to focus […]

16 November 2009
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Enable Bookmark Sync In Chromium

I tweeted this news yesterday but in case you don’t use twitter or it got lost in the chatter, here’s the news again. Enable Bookmark Sync To enable bookmark sync in Chromium (That’s Chromium, not […]

16 November 2009
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Elementary Theme XSplash

For fans of the ‘Elementary project‘ and their associated artwork you’ll be pleased to hear that the simplistic and minimal tones of Elementary have finally touched XSplash.  Created by design supremo Dan Rabbit (like the Karmic Humanity […]

15 November 2009

Ubuntu 9.10 Mock-Up Xsplash’s Brought to Life (DEBs Inside)

Ubuntu 9.10 uses Xsplash for its boot loading screen and though the default look is pretty, a number of different designs were proposed. Below you’ll find 3 super awesome Xsplash themes based on those original […]

14 November 2009