It’s time to throw away all the extra stuff in your electronics shelf. No need of starting the pc, waiting to boot up, start sync softwares or use multiple mail clients. All you need now is just a phone, a docking station, keyboard and a monitor. Introducing ‘Ubuntu for Android’. A novel way to manage […]
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Finally, after years and years of waiting, we might hear a change from the beating drums to something more subtle and modern. The sound theme contest has produced a winner and he will work closely with the Ubuntu design team to incorporate the new login sound in 12.04. In the coming releases after 12.04 all
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Today’s daily update brings in a few cosmetic changes which are welcome and also a little surprising as well. 1. Sound settings menu The Valentine’s Day update brings back Rhythmbox quick access menu replacing Banshee. The sound settings menu has a few changes as well. The output volume is now at the bottom of the
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LibreOffice 3.5, dubbed as “The best free office suite ever!” was released a couple of hours ago. A Valentine’s Day gift to open source software lovers, LibreOffice 3.5 is the third major release after the formation of The Document Foundation. This is the first major release where contributions from local associations and communities has been
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In a surprise but good move, HP open sourced its now defunct and ambitious project to take on Apple, WebOS, and donated it to the open source community. WebOS, which was bought from Palm for 1.2billion dollars last year was the first high profile casualty in the war of touchscreen enabled smartphones and operating systems. HP
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Image Courtesy: Lightworksbeta.com Here’s some good news for video editing enthusiasts and professionals. Oscar winning software, Lightworks, which will be going opensource soon is releasing its first stable release in November this year. The official announcement reads: On 29th November 2011, one year after the initial beta release, we will be officially releasing Lightworks. Interestingly,
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Last month developers at Canonical, the commercial backers of Ubuntu, unceremoniously dropped the Synaptic Package Manager from the default installation of Ubuntu Oneric Ocelot , which is due out in October. The common belief is, this was done to free up space for the Deja Dup backup application. Also, this was seen by some as duplication of
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All Android phones are capable of handling .doc, .docx and .rtf files with ease. However, when it comes to a .odt file , the default document handler is unable to handle the request. This is because, by default, all document readers are programmed to handle only MS Office file formats. File type .odt is a
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Now that GNOME 3 with GNOME Shell has been released, and Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity release just around the corner, GNOME 3 vs Unity is going to be a hot topic for discussion. So, let me start the ball rolling by doing a quick comparison between the two shells. What are GNOME Shell & Unity?
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Most of you have heard about Connman. For those who haven’t, Connman, is a network-manager alternative for Linux OS . This connection manager is being development by Intel, primarily for MeeGo. It looks rather neat when compared to the current network-manger which ships with Ubuntu or any Linux distro.
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