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Qwit Twitter Application Gets A PPA

One of my favourite twitter clients available on Linux is ‘Qwit’ – a qt4 based Twitter applications with a ton of features baked in such as twitpic uploading, URL shortening, contact management & more. Qwit […]

23 November 2009
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Share Your Rhythmbox Library with Empathy Contacts

Want to share your music collection with a contact over Empathy? Yesterday i told you how to do it in Banshee, now it’s the turn of Rhythmbox! As with the Banshee plug-in that offers the […]

23 November 2009
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Share Your Banshee Library With Contacts On Empathy

Ever wanted to share your Banshee library with your Empathy contacts? Well so did Neil Loknath who took it upon himself to make this functionality reality at Google’s Annual Summer Of Code. What does it […]

22 November 2009
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Docky Gains Panel Mode, Network Docklet & More

Docky gained a sleek new panel mode and a network manager docklet in an update to users of the Docky PPA yesterday. For those wondering why Docky is not longer part of GNOME Do see here […]

22 November 2009
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A Quick Chat With OpenShot Creator Jonathan Thomas

I took a few minutes to chat with Jonathan Thomas, creator and all round nice guy from OpenShot (better known as “iMovie for Linux” around these parts!), to find out what the application is up […]

22 November 2009
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Screenshot Tool Shutter 0.85 Released – Brings Super Features, New Improvements

A new version of screenshot/capture tool Shutter has been released, bringing new tools, features and user improvements. The shutter team were far more eloquent regarding the release, announcing: – The time of waiting is over […]

22 November 2009
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Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 UI Mock-Up Shows Future Plans

UbuntuTweak will see a radical interface change from previous versions in its 0.6 release. Users of the popular Ubuntu-tweaking application will see a subtle new interface in the next release – 0.5 – but the […]

21 November 2009
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PiTiVi Creator Responds To Readers Fears…

Earlier today Edward Hervey of the PiTiVi team responded to my previous post regarding PiTiVi becoming a default application in Ubuntu. His response was very well mannered and addressed many of the concerns both I […]

20 November 2009
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Want to build ChromeOS? Google says you’ll need Ubuntu!

The open-source version of ChromeOS is now available, and those interested in building it can only do so using a familiar OS to most of us… Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

19 November 2009
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Canonical ‘contracting engineering’ to Google

Canonical (the commercial funder/creator of Ubuntu) are contributing ‘engineering’ to Google (for ChromeOS, presumably) under contract. The official statement posted on the Canonical blog reads as follows. Congratulations to Google on the open sourcing of […]

19 November 2009
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See The ChromeOS Interface In More Detail [video]

Google have just posted a UI concept video of ChromeOS and it has to be said that there are very few differences between this and the product we saw today (which is not a finished […]

19 November 2009
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OMG! CHROMEOS LIVE BLOG!

Google will, today, be showing off their initial version of Google Chrome OS. Here we inform you, live, of the updates and revelations regarding one of the most highly anticipated operating systems this millenium decade. […]

19 November 2009