Ubuntu Unity Used By Super Heroes on TV Show

On May 18, 2012, in Linux, by dipinkrishna

Ubuntu’s Unity interface made a brief appearance in a popular Japanese ‘children’s’ show last weekend.  ‘Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters‘ – the latest team in the 36-year strong Super Sentai franchise – can clearly be seen to be running a customised version of Ubuntu Unity desktop on their laptop. Open-source mail-client Evolution is also on show, as is the [...]

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ZaReason Android 4.0 Tablet ‘ZaTab’ Shipping Soon

On May 18, 2012, in Linux, by dipinkrishna

They’re best known for making Ubuntu laptops and PCs but ZaReason are about to dip their toes into fresh waters with the launch of a tablet. But, unlike the rest of their hardware line up, the ‘ZaTab’ doesn’t come with Ubuntu but the tried-and-tested tablet Android 4.0 operating system. ‘Guts’ The lower-end of the tablet [...]

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Tom’s Top 5 Apps for Ubuntu

On May 17, 2012, in Linux, by dipinkrishna

This is a guest post by Tom Slominski, a 15 year old Ubuntu user who ‘loves Linux, open source and web development with a tad of alternative rock sprinkled on top.’ Here Tom runs through his top 5 app picks for Ubuntu. Polly Polly is a multi-column Twitter app for which OMG! readers chose a new [...]

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Skype-Wrapper Adds Call Actions, Notification Fixes, Ubuntu 12.04 Support

On May 17, 2012, in Linux, by dipinkrishna

A new stable release of Skype-Wrapper is available for download. Skype-Wrapper is a small third-party ‘plugin’ that integrates many of Skype’s features directly into the Ubuntu desktop. This includes support for Ubuntu’s Messaging Menu, notification system and Unity launcher. What’s New? With almost six-months between the last release and this, it’s no surprise to learn that amongst the [...]

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[How To] Make Chrome Use Native Notifications in Linux

On May 16, 2012, in Linux, by dipinkrishna

If you use any web-apps or websites in Chrome that provide notification pop-ups on your desktop then you’ll know how out of place they look in Ubuntu. For although Chrome’s notification ‘toasts’ are consistent across all three major operating systems – that is they look and behave the same on Windows, Mac and Linux – they are, unlike, [...]

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Ubuntu 12.10 Renaming ‘Update Manager’ to ‘Software Updater’

On May 16, 2012, in Linux, by dipinkrishna

The question of how best to present and enable software and system updates to users of Linux has resulted in different distributions doing things their own way. The Ubuntu-based Chinese distro Linux Deepin, for example, integrates software updates directly into its Software Center. But Ubuntu uses a Update Manager – a tool that is fairly straightforward [...]

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