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Evolution Got Beautiful?!

Edit: See bottom of post for newest update with oversized icons fixed It sounds impossible, yet it seems to be true! I’ve complained a bit about Evolution before, both about behavior and looks, in hopes […]

25 May 2010
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Ayatana and Single Click Navigation

Hey there readers. In case you weren’t aware, Ayatana has a mailing list through Launchpad to discuss the future of UI in Ubuntu. It is Ayatana that brought us the Notifications, the oft disputed window […]

16 May 2010
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Manual Fever!

Heads up everyone, those obsolete, dusty things you never look at are coming back into fashion in the Ubuntu world!  Manual fever is gripping Ubuntu community teams all over the world as everyone starts to […]

14 May 2010
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The Ubuntu Support and Learning Center

In the Ubuntu Manual Project we are always looking for ways to make our content and material available to as many people as possible. We make it available in different languages and downloadable in different […]

12 May 2010
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Tyler on Ubuntu: Why Netbooks are bringing the future

In case you’ve  been hiding under a rock, or hang around people who exclusively use Mac hardware, then you’ve witnessed the explosion of the Netbook. Small, light, less then 10 inches, and with impressive levels […]

10 May 2010
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Ubuntu Developer Summit Maverick plenary and keynote: New Ubuntu "instant on", netbook shell, more

Well, here I am at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels, Belgium. Yesterday I got to head into Brussels and have a look around with a couple of Italian friends from the Italy LoCo team. […]

10 May 2010
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OpenShot survey results show users want dvd creation feature; 88% use ubuntu

The results of the OpenShot survey that was conducted over the last few weeks has ended and the results have been made available on OpenShot developer Cenwen’s blog [French]. They show many interesting things, a brief […]

9 May 2010
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Interested in testing Compiz 0.9.x?

In case you’ve not heard, (probably due to rather extensive confusion about what and which is what) Compiz, Beryl and Compiz-Fusion have gone through a number of changes and splits and merges and has finally […]

7 May 2010
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Newsdump: Netinstall Ubuntu, Opera repo bound & fix that ugly bootscreen

We get sent so many great ideas, awesome tutorials and see applications updates fire out updates quicker than a plasma canon hooked up to the national grid that even we can’t manage to keep up […]

6 May 2010
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Windicators – Ubuntu Meerkat Innovation Starts Here [Updated]

Remember Mark Shuttleworth hinting that the window control movement had freed up space on the right and that there were some interesting things that could be done there? Well: Mark Shuttleworth has just posted a […]

3 May 2010
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How to add Thunderbird to the Ubuntu messaging menu

This method is now out-dated. See omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/02/thunderbird-messaging-menu-integration-ready-for-wider-testing/ — Many Ubuntu users don’t use the default Ubuntu mail application Evolution and prefer to swap it out with popular alternative Mozilla Thunderbird. Sadly, for Ubuntu 10.04 users, this […]

2 May 2010
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Tyler on Ubuntu: Your Virtual desktops

Remember when I asked you about how you used your virtual workspaces? Well, ever since then (yes, ever since last Friday. It seems like a long time) I’ve been doing my darndest to collate the […]

29 April 2010