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New Adobe Flash 64bit For Linux Coming 8th December

Adobe are to release a new version of their native 64-bit Flash plug-in for Linux on the 8th December. Posting on the “Flash 10 Player” page for Linux 64 bit, Adobe make the following statement:- […]

2 December 2009
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Mark Speaks; New Artwork For Lucid, Awesome Messaging Applet Improvements Coming, View On ChromeOS, More!

Lucid, Lucid, Lucid. It’s the only word on Ubuntu-fervents lips these days! As part of the post-Koala release, Mark Shuttleworth held his usual Q&A session in an IRC in somewhere land and spilt all sorts […]

1 December 2009
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Android Icon/GTK Theme For Ubuntu

I love Android. I can’t afford an Android device, but still I love Android. I started porting the Android handset icons to a gnome theme when i came across iruel‘s similar attempt on Gnome-look. Called […]

1 December 2009
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Android Clock Screenlet Theme

I love Android. I can’t afford an Android device mind, but I still love Android. I’m currently porting the Android icon set into a Gnome theme using Genoid’s work so far as a base, but […]

1 December 2009
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Ubuntu Lucid To Use Plymouth; Non-Intel Users To Lose Out?

A few weeks ago the decision was mooted to switch Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx from USplash to Plymouth. The decision was made in light of the fact that the boot transitions between boot and the […]

1 December 2009
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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