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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
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Vote To Change DropBox’s Tray Icons

As part of our on-going “Humanity Style Icons” series, lots of users have mentioned wanting to change their DropBox tray icons. Currently this is not possible, and affects users of all Operating Systems – not […]

14 November 2009
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[How To] Improve The Look of Picasa In Ubuntu

Google’s photo-management come editor program ‘Picasa’ is a wonderful application for sorting and imporiving the appearance of your photos. Shame it looks lame in Ubuntu! Thankfully you can do a few things to improve the look of Picasa, the […]

13 November 2009
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Google ChromeOS To Become Available Next Week (Apparently!)

TechCrunch are reporting that ChromeOS could be launched within a week – albeit for a limited set of devices (mainly netbooks). This isn’t a crazy supposition given Google themselves had announced plans for an early version to […]

13 November 2009
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Celebrate OpenSuse 11.2 Being Released By Using Its GTK Theme!

OpenSuse 11.2 was released today and what better way to nod your head to the distro who’s company (Novell) are behind so many wonderful applications Ubuntu users enjoy – F-Spot, Banshee, Evolution. (Well scratch that […]

12 November 2009
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Official Docky Development PPA

Docky now have an official development PPA, so wherever you were getting Docky from previously you’ll probably want to swap and use this one. Of course, please note the word ‘development’ in the title; this […]

12 November 2009
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Get CheckGMail to Use Ubuntu Notification System Easily

CheckGMail is a popular panel applet for notifying a user of new mail in their Gmail account. It’s also popular for annoying Ubuntu users since it doesn’t use the notification system like most other applications […]

11 November 2009
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Give Banshee A Muine-Like Interface Using One Command

Love Banshee but prefer Muine’s interface? Well you can get a Muine-looking Banshee it with one command! Nothing to install or download. Banshee with Muine-like Interface Muine? What the frakk is that?! Muine is a […]

11 November 2009