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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
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Ubuntu 9.10 (Finally) Allows One Click Installation Of New Fonts

Installing fonts in Ubuntu is a bit of a hassle right now. You need to move them to a hidden folder, then run a command to refresh/rebuild the font cache. Often, to get them to […]

1 October 2009
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8 Karmic Coloured Wallpapers

What better way to celebrate the release of Ubuntu 9.10 Beta than a smorgasbord of Karmic friendly wallpapers?! Simply Ubuntu Karmic Circles PhotonBeam Coffee Cup Storm A day At The Savannah Ubuntu Ubuntu Tattoo Be […]

1 October 2009
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App Of The Week: ViewNior – Lightweight Image Viewer

ViewNior is a lightweight image viewer that was designed with “simple and fast” as it’s mantra – and boy does it live up to it! I’m kicking off my new ‘App Of The Week’ series […]

1 October 2009
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Karmic Koala Beta Released Today (Now Live)

The first and only Beta release of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala will be available for download later on today – exactly one month before the final release is due on October 29th. Alpha No Hable […]

1 October 2009
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Openshot Video Editor Gets HUGE Update – 30 New Effects, Preview Window, Green Screen, PPA…

OpenShot – one of the best video editor available for Linux – finally has a PPA! That’s news enough in-itself as it means pain free installation but the even better news is it now comes […]

30 September 2009
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How to Run Web Apps on Ubuntu Using Mozilla Prism

Want to run a web app, like Google Tasks, on your Ubuntu desktop, complete with all the features the online version has? Well, you can — using Mozilla Prism. Mozilla Prism allows websites to be […]

30 September 2009
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Poll: Ubuntu Login/Shutdown Sounds – Love or Hate?

The login and shutdown sounds for Ubuntu haven’t changed in what seems like eternity! Given the current emphasis on creating a more modern looking Ubuntu desktop one has to ask who forgot about the system […]

29 September 2009