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Humanity Style Icons for Parcellite

Yet more in our series on Humanity Style icons – this time we look at clipboard manager application ‘Parcel lite’. Parcel lite I was in the middle of creating my own parcel-lite icons when these […]

9 November 2009
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Watch YouTube Video’s Without Flash In Your Browser!

If you want to watch YouTube videos without using Flash you can – thanks to neosmart. Available as both a webpage AND as an extension for Chromium (and shortly to work on Chrome), Firefox and […]

8 November 2009
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Get Windows Aero Style in GNOME [And I’m not talking Window Borders…]

It requires a serious amount of hacking, but you can get “aero style” windows in GNOME using this. (I’m not talking Aero style window borders, but the entire application.) I’ll be writing a tutorial on […]

8 November 2009
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Humanity Style: Panel Weather Icons

Continuing our series of finding ‘Humanity Style’ icons for applications in Karmic we come to the panel weather icons. If you use the weather notification service in your gnome panel, you’ll have already noticed that […]

8 November 2009
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Gorgeous Humanity Style Icons For Pidgin

Continuing our series on humanity style icons for popular applications we turn out attention to the most popular Instant Messenger since the dawn of, er… sometime – Pidgin! Not-Empathy Clones There have been some great […]

8 November 2009
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Video Conferencing Coming To GMail Chat

Reports are circulating that GMail chat – the web-based version of Google Talk/GTalk – will be adding multi-user video chat/video conferencing to this other Google services in the coming months. GMail Chat only supports one-to-one […]

7 November 2009
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5 New Chrome Extensions Worth Trying – Twitter, Google Tasks, YouTube enhancer & more

It’s been a while since my last pick of the best Chrome extensions and to celebrate Chromium finally supporting extension “tool tips” here are 5 new “toolbar” extensions to enjoy! Google Tasks Manage your to-do’s […]

7 November 2009
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Match Ubuntu’s Xsplash Background to Your Desktop Wallpaper

Want to change the Ubuntu 9.10’s Xsplash boot screen background to match your desktop wallpaper? You might, but you are likely think “what happens when I change my wallpaper, do I need to do whatever […]

6 November 2009
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NewWave Firefox Themes

I’ve blogged previously about the Dust Firefox theme that seamlessly marries Firefox with the Dust GTK theme. Now it’s the turn of NewWave! Version One – NewWave Firefox Theme There is an official NewWave Firefox […]

6 November 2009
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Experimental OpenShot PPA Launched, No Longer Removes Video Playback

OpenShot – a much loved Video Editor here on OMG!UBUNTU! – today launched a new experimental PPA for people wanting to sit on the bleeding edge of it’s development. FFMpeg Off! The current PPA proved […]

6 November 2009
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Fix the "can’t click on flash" bug in Ubuntu with 1 command

If you’re experiencing the current annoying bug with Adobe Flash not registering mouse clicks (e.g. on YouTube, etc) then you’ll be pleased to hear that there is a relatively easy fix (for now). I must […]

6 November 2009
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Is Karmic Koala Ubuntu’s Vista?

To answer the title: no it’s not, but since the release of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala only one week ago the blog-o-sphere, forums and opinion-pieces on various sites have been ringing loud with hate, disappointment […]

5 November 2009