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Chromium Breaks Free – Fixes GTK Tab Bar Bug

Google’s Chromium browser has broken free from it’s terminal, grabbed some GTK colours for it’s tab bar and continues to make big strides towards the first Alpha release. The current Chromium build (at the time […]

13 May 2009
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Ubuntu One Beta – Free 2GB Online Storage From Ubuntu!

Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu, yesterday opened an official beta for ‘Ubuntu One’, a free online storage and syncing solution. Ubuntu One helps you store, sync and share Ubuntu One adds a folder to your […]

12 May 2009
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GloobusPreview – Quick Look For Ubuntu Jaunty!

Want to preview your files/movies/images/text a la Mac OS X ‘Quick Look’ feature? Then look no further because GloobusPreview does it all – and then some! GloobusPreview allows you to view the contents of a […]

11 May 2009
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Chromium Daily Builds Implement GTK Tab Bar

In the latest daily build of Google’s Chromium browser, the familiar ‘Windows XP’ style tab bar was replaced with something less ‘polished’ that may be the first steps towards implementing full GTK themeing for the […]

9 May 2009
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Interview with ‘PiTiVi’ Maintainer

Edward Hervey, maintainer of the most promising and advanced Linux Video Editor ‘PiTiVi’ answered some pertinent and probing questions from Christian F.K. Schaller over on the PlanetGnome blog. Below are some of the highlights of […]

8 May 2009
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Ubuntu Logo Wallpapers

It’s been a while since a Wallpaper-only post (don’t look below! Eek!) so what better way to kill a few minutes than to look at some pretty pictures and decide whether they’re awesome enough to […]

7 May 2009
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Weather Wallpapers For Gnome

I love KDE’s “Weather Wallpaper” plug-in. It automatically changes your desktop background to a high-resolution photo of your local weather conditions, like so:- Seeeeeexy! For Gnome, however, the choices are a little more… well… ‘Gnome’. […]

7 May 2009
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Themes: Luscious Light Ubuntu Theme

This sleek light theme is the perfect antidote to the massive increase in dark themes jostling for attention over on Gnome-look.org – where i first spotted this. One complaint would be the Metacity borders, which […]

5 May 2009
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Literal Ubuntu "Desktop" Wallpaper

Literal Ubuntu “desk top”, originally uploaded by d0od. I created this wallpaper out or boredom, but it actually turned out very well! It’s essentially a table top wallpaper with “desk” type accessories for you to […]

5 May 2009
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Notification Changes For Karmic Koala

Jaunty’s sexy new notifications are loved by some and hated by others but nonetheless will continue to be part of Ubuntu for the foreseeable future. Mark Shuttleworth (Ubuntu founder) kicked off a discussion on the […]

2 May 2009
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Mark Shuttleworth Q+A Part 2: iTunes on Linux, Thoughts On WINE & Jaunty’s Biggest Weakness…

This is part 2 of Mark Shuttleworth’s monthly Q+A with the Ubuntu Community. You can read Part One here. ‘MS’ = Mark Shuttleworth Has there been any dialog with Apple on bringing official iTunes/iPod support […]

29 April 2009
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Mark Shuttleworth Q+A Part 1: Gnome 3, New Themes, MONO & Peanut Butter On Toast…

Apple may have Steve Jobs, Microsoft their Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer but we Ubuntu lovers have our own awesome over-lord in the form of Canonical head and Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. He even dubs […]

29 April 2009