August 2011
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Canonical Store Adds Ubuntu-Branded Laptop Sleeve
An Ubuntu-branded neoprene laptop sleeve is the latest item to be added to the Canonical store. Retailing for £19.95, the sleeve is billed as “a beautiful form-fitting Ubuntu laptop sleeve.” The sleeve is available in 3 sizes: 13″, 15″ and 17″. All varieties are grey with an orange inner lining. Two rubber Ubuntu logo zips and a badge add the branding to the Neoprene outer. What’s Neoprene, you...
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Coherence Plugin for Rhythmbox
After many years of being a member of the bandwagon to unseat Rhythmbox in favor of Banshee as the default, I end up getting a PS3 and regretting my choice in media player due to the one small gem that is the Coherence plugin for Rhythmbox. The Coherence plugin allows your Rhythmbox install to act as a UPnP media server on your network. Any UPnP client, such as a PS3 or Logitech Squeezebox...
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Linux Users Continue To Spend More On Humble Indie...
Linux users continue to pay more for the Humble Indie Bundle 3 than their Windows or OS X counterparts. With just over one day left to nab eleven awesome DRM-free indie games for whatever price you’re willing to pay, I thought it would be nice to take a quick look at how the Bundle is doing before the last day splurge sets in.
So far the Bundle has amassed over $1.8 million – and should surely...
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Samsung Remove Ubuntu Logo From Galaxy Ad
Ubuntu Gone Over the last week we’ve heard from a number of our readers in India, the territory in which the ad is shown, that a new version of the advert is showing with the only perceivable difference being the removal of the Ubuntu logo from the beginning of the advert. Anecdotally, Samsung also removed the ‘Ubuntu’ version of the advert from YouTube.
Source : omgubuntu.co.uk
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‘Conky Colors’ 7.0 Adds Stylish New Theme
User-friendly Conky setup Conky Colors has added a new ‘stylish lightening stats‘ mode as part of its 7.0 release.
“SLS” mode provides CPU and system process usage, weather conditions, GMail alerts, HDD usage, battery, and network statistics. Other modes included with Conky Colors, but not new to this release, are ‘Rings’, ‘Board’, ‘Default’, ‘Slim’, and ‘Cairo’. Also making up the 7.0 release...
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MiniTube Updated With YouTube Fix, Drag And Drop...
The updated version also adds in a new feature: you can now drag’n’drop YouTube links from your browser on to the Minitube window to have them load.
Download
Minitube 1.5 binaries for 32bit Linux (runs from the folder) can be downloaded at flavio.tordini.org/minitube
The release is also available for Ubuntu 10.04 through to 11.04 users via the MiniTube PPA maintained by Ferramosca Roberto.
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Create A Minimal-looking Narwhal Desktop
Reader Juan Carlos Arroyo Callejas sent us his guide on getting a “clean looking Natty desktop”, which he dutifully shows off in the image below:
The Guide
Only attempt to follow Juan’s guide if you are certain you want the look. To revert the changes you will need to work backwards reverting the steps (install instead of remove, true instead of false, etc.)
REMOVE FILES AND PLACES FROM...
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Access and Add Files On Your ASUS Transformer in...
gMTP
gMTP can be installed through the Ubuntu Software Centre (click) and provides a simple interface for browsing through files and folders on your Transformer. To add files from your PC to your tablet you simple drag and drop them into the folder you wish to store them in.
Drawbacks include an inability to ‘download’ files from my Transformer to my desktop and no extra ‘views’ for the...
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A Surprisingly Easy Tip for Upgrading Ubuntu
Some versions of Ubuntu don’t automatically give you the option to upgrade to the latest version. In this week’s Ubuntu is Easy segment, I show you the easy way to upgrade Ubuntu to the latest release, which as of when this video was released is 11.04, Natty Narwhal!
Video produced on Linux Mint 10 using Kdenlive, Audacity, and GIMP.
Source : omgubuntu.co.uk
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Disney to Produce Penguin Film… Called ‘Tux’
Deadline.com are reporting that Disney have hired Night At The Museum writer Robert Ben Garant to pen an animated feature about a talking Penguin called, you guessed it, ‘Tux’.
The film is to be an adaptation of “gritty” Japanese graphic novel ‘Tuxedo Gin’, the storyline of which sees a young street fighter “fall into a coma and learns that he …only has enough karma points to be reincarnated...
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Ubuntu One Upgrades Free Storage to 5GB, Hits 1...
The upgrade will be applied to all user accounts on the basic plan, which has been renamed ‘Ubuntu One Free’.
Subscribers to the Ubuntu One Music service will also benefit from an upgrade, with the base storage bumped up to 20GB for $3.99/month. Additional storage, available in 20GB blocks, are available forn $2.99.
The news that Ubuntu One reached the one million user milestone back in May...
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Unique 2D game ‘In The Dark’
One that caught our eye was ‘In The Dark’ by Escapement Studios.
Like a lot of indie games produced recently ‘In The Dark’ is a 2D puzzle-platformer boasting a unique gameplay concept involving light and shadows.
“…we designed a world in which imagination could take over where your childhood left off – a world in which monsters exist, lurking within the shadows, threatening to snatch you...
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What Facebook Does to Kids' Brains →
infoneer-pulse:
Facebook is only seven years old and has only been open to non-college students for five years (kids under 13 are not offiially allowed to join), so researchers have not had much time to study the emotional, physical, and psychological effects it could have on kids. But science has proven at least one thing: Facebook does something to some people’s brains, probably.
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Antivirus for Ubuntu 11.04/11.10
Antivirus software for Ubuntu Users – is it optional ?
Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) or 11.10 (Few alpha versions has arrived, the stable will be released after few months) or 10.10 or any Linux based distributions are very less prone to virus attacks or malwares, spywares (or any similar *wares). The reason is pretty straight forward – First Linux based operating systems are highly...
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UML Tools for Ubuntu
Unified Modelling Language (UML) is basically a modelling languages that is typically used in the design phase of object oriented software development process, to express the thought in graphical representation, to visualize the system etc. UML, created by OMG (Object Management Group), has now become the standard approach to software modelling. In fact the UML diagrams makes coding part...
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Fusion Blue GTK Theme
Kind of. Fusion Blue steers clear of bold blue, opting for a more sedate ‘aquamarine’ affair. In places, such as the Unity panel, it can sometimes appear metallic.
In my opinion the theme is let down by the poor choice of complimentary colour: a Windows 95-style grey that gives the theme a “WIP” look; almost like the colour has yet to be decided for the rest of it.
Things to note: -
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Web-browser Midori Adds Unity Support and Neat...
Unity support is one of several changes making up the latest release of lightweight web browser Midori.
Midori 0.4.0: Notable Changes
We’ll begin this run down with the one part of Midori you probably see more than you care to: the crash dialog.
In Midori 0.4.0 this has received a birrova overhaul, with nicely placed options for ‘discarding, loading or delaying’ your last open tabs placed...
