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Karmic GDM Gets New Glowy Icons

Karmic’s GDM received some small updates today that brought with them a new HumanLoginIcon set full of beautiful glowing icons – much more akin to the mock-up than the previous humanity icons used in it’s […]

7 October 2009
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Install The Single-Windowed Gimp Preview in Ubuntu [How-to]

Want to try out the new “single window” Gimp? Here’s how! BEAR IN MIND THAT THIS IS IN DEVLOPEMENT SOFTWARE AND NOT DESIGNED FOR EVERYDAY USE. You will also need to remove any exising Gimp […]

6 October 2009
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First Pictures Of Single Window Gimp – It Looks AMAZING.

The first glimpse at the long-awaited (and much-desired) single window Gimp has been posted on GIMP developer Martin Nordholts blog. He updates that progress is coming on well, spurred on in part by the “overwhelmingly […]

6 October 2009
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Remove The 60sec Shutdown/Reboot Timer In Karmic Koala

Want to get rid of the ‘60 Seconds Until Shutdown/Reboot/Logout’ countdown? Blog reader knorre handily posted the how-to in a comment, which I’m re-posting here so it’s not overlooked!  Simply open a terminal and: – […]

5 October 2009
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Google Chrome Artist’s Themes Work With Linux Chrome (Sadly does Include the totally pointless Mariah Carey Theme!)

Google officially released a collection of 100 “Artists Themes for Chrome” today – a bunch of not entirely successful skins for Google Chrome designed by some of the worlds “best artists”, including Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, […]

5 October 2009
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Emesene 1.5 – The BEST Messenger for MSN?

Emesene 1.6 has now been released ?” find out more @ omgubuntu.co.uk/emesene-1.6-released-whats-new.html ——————————————————!#——————– Emesene 1.5 is one of the best instant messengers available for use with the MSN Network thanks to its massive feature set […]

5 October 2009
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Humanity Icons for Cpufreq

CPUFREQ applet allows you to control your CPU speed directly from the gnome-panel. It sadly comes with some of the most awful looking icons ever created! If you’re using Karmic (or the humanity theme in […]

4 October 2009
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Anjal – Slick Evolution Interface For Netbooks

Anjai is a custom Evolution interface designed for use on netbooks, with it’s main screen optimized for 1024×600 sized screens.     ROFL! Useless Trivia! Anjal means E-Mail in Tamil. Stylish (and useful!) Using WebKit […]

4 October 2009
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10 Reasons Why Google Chrome Should Be Your Default Web Browser

An official version of Google Chrome has been available to try out for several months. It fully supports flash and extensions, is super fast to both start-up and load pages and is so incredibly stable […]

4 October 2009
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Try Thunar – A Sleek Lightweight File Manager

Thunar is a lightweight file manager with a very light memory footprint, a less cluttered layout and pretty much all the features one needs in a file manager! Installing Thunar does not remove Nautilus so […]

2 October 2009
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How To Customize The New GDM In Karmic

Karmic’s new GDM isn’t as customizable as the previous version due to a complete re-write from the ground up. Just take a look at the login preferences screen from Jaunty: – and this is the […]

2 October 2009
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Use IMDB Art For Video Thumbnails In Nautilus

Want your video thumbnails in nautilus or thunar to display their official artwork from imdb? Say hello to imdb-thumbnail! Download Grab the official .deb file from the imdb-thumbnail launchpad @ : – https://launchpad.net/imdb-thumbnailer Installation Once […]

2 October 2009