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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
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Poll Time: Happy With GIMP’s Going From Lucid?

Earlier we reported on the decision to ditch The GIMP in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx LTS. Lots of reasons why this is a good thing, and a fair few as to why it isn’t, but what […]

18 November 2009
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Re-enable Workspace Scrolling Using Your Mouse Scrollwheel

Annoyed that in Karmic you can no-longer switch between desktops using your mouse wheel? De-annoy yourself thanks to this easy fix. Open up CompizConfigSettingsManager Go to ‘Viewport Switcher’ Choose the ‘Desktop-based Viewport Switching’ tab Enable […]

18 November 2009

Ubuntu’s New Music Store Gets Detailed at UDS

One feature is on the lips of everyone excited about Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid Lynx’: the new Ubuntu One Music Store. Ubuntu Music Store will let us purchase music inside the desktop music player More pertinently, […]

18 November 2009
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PiTiVi On Course To Become A Default Application In Lucid

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