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5 Great Feature in Jaunty (According to Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 ‘Jaunty Jackalope’ now just days away from release, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at computerworld.com has shared a list of his favourite five things about the new edition of the mammalian-monikered […]

16 April 2009
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Free Jaunty CDs Now Available To Order!

Ubuntu’s free CD shipping programme Ship It is now taking pre-orders for Ubuntu 9.04 CDs. Requesting a free CD is a great way to get an Ubuntu installation CD, especially if your internet is subhead […]

16 April 2009
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Jaunty Release Candidate Released

We’re only a few days away from the official launch of Jaunty Jackalope, but for those early-birds who really can’t wait, the first (and likely only) release candidate has just been released. This pre-release packs […]

16 April 2009
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First Koala Alpha Due In May

The first Alpha of Ubuntu’s next version – 9.10 AKA Karmic Koala ” will be released on May 14th ” less than one month after the final release Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. Whilst this initial […]

16 April 2009
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Popular Ideas For Ubuntu: Beyond Icons

So many really great ideas pop up on brainstorm.ubuntu.com that it’s a shame not all can be implemented. One very popular idea right now is the concept of going beyond ‘icons’ as merely static launchers […]

15 April 2009
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FolderView Screenlet

This screenlet just popped up on Gnome-look.org and it’s very ‘ooooh!’. Anyone who has used KDE 4.x.x will have seen the plasma ‘folder view’ applet, if not glance below at the transparent boxes that show […]

15 April 2009
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Nature Wallpapers

Time for a new wallpaper post! (C’mon, you can never have too many wallpaper choices!) This time I’ve chosen a few from Desktopography ” a very rad non-profit project comprising of a group of very […]

15 April 2009
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Smoke – Sleek Gnome Panel Background

Short post, but the moment i saw it i had to share because it’s so sexy! Just look at this very sexy gnome panel: – (click to view larger) It’s sooooo simple to install and […]

15 April 2009

Meet Elegant New Jabber Client ‘Synapse’

Synapse is a Jabber-only based messaging client designed to look good as well as work well. Whilst many current IM clients support jabber (Such as Pidgin and Gnome’s Empathy) Synapse makes no bones about the […]

14 April 2009
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Chrome Gets Major Linux Update – Features Galore!

The current testing builds of Google's Open-Source Chromium browser (I.e Google Chrome) hit a very welcome update today.

11 April 2009
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Control Your Music From The Panel

This is one of my must-install’s whenever I’ve installed Ubuntu. It’s a simple Gnome panel applet that lets you control most popular music players without having to open said player up! The music applet provides […]

11 April 2009
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Emesene – Now with webcam & Jaunty notification support

Of all the various IM clients for Ubuntu, i always find myself drawn to Emesene ” mainly because my IM contacts are all MSN based and Emesene (say the name aloud!) is modelled on an […]

8 April 2009