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KDE 4.3.3 Released – Boasts Nothing Major

This months update to KDE sees a ton of bug fixes and some more translation work. Among the improvements in KDE 4.3.3 are: – Improved KWin effects JuK has been made more stable Konqueror ‘detached […]

5 November 2009
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Ubuntu XSplash Animation – "Human Swarm"

Further to my post on ‘How to use Xubuntu’s XSplash animation in Ubuntu‘ one enterprising reader, going by the moniker of  pezmanlou, turned the cool blue hues of the Xubuntu animation into an ace Ubuntu […]

4 November 2009
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Some More Gnome Panel Clock Applet Styles

I’ve posted some styles for the Gnome panel Clock Applet before and some of you responded with your own in the comments to these posts. Some were really darn good so i’ve made a compilation […]

4 November 2009
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Install UserScripts As Extensions In Chromium On Linux

Chromium (and very shortly Google Chrome) allows UserScripts to be installed in just like extensions! You click on the ‘install’ and the script installs. This means no external “greasemonkey” application is needed to use UserScripts in […]

4 November 2009
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How To Use Custom Backgrounds In Grub2

Grub2 – the default boot-loader for new installations of Ubuntu 9.10 – has some nifty new features – including support for background images and custom font colours. Whilst the previous version of GRUB could also […]

4 November 2009
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Gnome 3.0 To Be Delayed Until September 2010?

Gnome 3.0, which is due to bring the love/hate Gnome-Shell to users desktops, was originally slated in for a March 2010 release. This may now be pushed back to September 2010 due to the "beta quality" of Gnome-Shell; there is just too much work to be done on it and just not enough time.

4 November 2009
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Quirky Wallpaper Series: KDE Edition

Want a rotational, zoom-able globe on your desktop? How about a flying animated star field?! Welcome to QUirky WaLlpapers KDE Edition. Star-Field  “plasma-wallpaper-starfield” is a desktop background for KDEthat places an animated starfield over your […]

3 November 2009
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Get Xubuntu’s Boot Splash Animation In Ubuntu Karmic!

Xubuntu Karmic has a really nice XSplash animation effect during it’s boot up. It resembles, to me at least, a bunch of swarming fireflies. You can see it for yourself in this dodgy handheld video […]

3 November 2009
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Kubuntu “Project Timelord” Announced

The Kubuntu development team have today announced ‘Project Timelord‘ – a set of clear aims, goals and changes they hope will have a regenerative effect on the popularity of the distribution. It has come to […]

3 November 2009
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Quick Hack To Get iPods Working With Banshee In Karmic

One annoyance in Karmic is the fact some iPod’s won’t work in Banshee “out of the box”. This is due to Ubuntu moving from HAL to devicekit for managing and notifying the system when hardware […]

2 November 2009
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Skype For Linux To Be Open-Sourced [updated]

Skype is going to be open-sourced! I won’t dwell too long on this as you can check the full post on Slashdot via Olivier Faurax’s blog post. Whilst asking about a Skype package for some […]

2 November 2009
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Humanity Style DropBox Icons

Continuing our series on ‘Humanity Style Icons’ for other applications we arrive at cloud storage service DropBox. There are two different versions available currently: –   Install Download the replacement icons @ gnome-look.org Extract the […]

1 November 2009