Midori is a web browser that aims to be lightweight and fast. It uses the WebKit rendering engine and the GTK+ 2 interface (…) Read the rest of Midori 0.3.0 released and installation instructions included (372 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2011

London (PRWEB) November 27, 2007 Canonical today announced the general availability of the Launchpad Personal Package Archive (PPA) service, a new way for developers to build and publish packages of their code, documentation, artwork, themes and other additions to the Ubuntu environment on desktop, server and now mobile platforms. The PPA service [...]

dupeGuru Picture Edition is a tool to refract same pictures on your computer. dupeGuru PE is prompt, thanks to its active haired conforming algorithm. Not only can dupeGuru PE find direct matches, but it can also find duplicates among pictures of contrasting kind (PNG, JPEG, GIF, etc.) and quality. dupeGuru PE is customizable. You can [...]

Amarok is a powerful music player with an intuitive interface. It makes playing the music you love and discovering new music easier than ever before and it looks good doing it! Amarok is based on the powerful Qt4 / KDE4 Platform and nicely integrates with KDE desktop

KDE is delighted to announce its latest set of releases, providing major updates to the KDE Plasma workspaces, KDE Applications and KDE Platform. These releases, versioned 4.6, provide many new features in each of KDE’s three product lines. (…) Read the rest of How to install KDE 4.6 in ubuntu 10.10 (44 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2011

Cave Story is one of the most popular and highly addictive adventure game made by Japanese developer Daisuke Amaya. Originally evolved for ..Full ArticleUbuntuHQ

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the desktop-race! Aboon them a’ ye tak your place, Coder, tester, or usability expert: 4.6 Release Supper in Edinburgh tonight had haggis, neeps, tatties and finest Burns poetry. Jonathan, Rabbie, Kenny, Thomas, Colin

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Pithos is a Pandora client for the GNOME Desktop. The official Flash-based client is a CPU hog, and Pianobar is a great reverse-engineered implementation, but is command-line only. Neither integrate with the desktop very well, missing things like media key support and song notifications

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Apache switch is GUI application to Start,Stop and restart Apache server (…) Read the rest of Apache-Switch – GUI application to Start,Stop and restart Apache server (48 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: apache server restart ubuntu , apache server stop ubuntu , Server Related Articles Simple commands to manage apache2 sites and Modules (3) Linux Server Monitoring with Bijk (1) How to use SSH Via HTTP Proxy using Corkscrew in Ubuntu (9) Heartbeat2 Xen cluster with drbd8 and OCFS2 (10) How to setup John the Ripper on a Ubuntu 10.04 MPI Cluster (PDF Document) (0) Howto Install Nginx webserver in Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) (6) Howto install Cherokee web server with MySQL, PHP support on Jaunty (14) How to Install Skype 2 on 64-bit Ubuntu (13) eGroupware – web-based groupware suite Setup (23)

LibreOffice 3.3.0, announced on Tuesday, is the first milestone release of the open-source productivity suite from The Document Foundation since it split from the Oracle-led OpenOffice consortium in September. The release brings new features as well as popular options found in OpenOffice 3.3, according to the foundation. (…) Read the rest of LibreOffice gets 3.3.0 stable version release (PPA Installation instructions included) (134 words) © admin for Ubuntu Geek , 2011

I wanted to take a real example of systems that Canonical works with OEMs to pre-install and try to explain what does it all mean! So I would like to introduce to you DELL’s Latitude 2120 . read more

BleachBit quickly frees disk space and tirelessly guards your privacy.

It’s been a while since I’ve posted any updates here, but I’ve been quite busy working with others on my team and elsewhere to bring multitouch to the desktop. We are currently developing the XInput 2.1 extension to the X server to bring multitouch capabilities

I recently got this video forwarded to me and I think it’s incredible that this is done by someone in the community.

During my normal Sunday morning chill out with a cup of coffee this morning, I saw a tweet from Ken VanDine go by about Pithos, a native Pandora client for Ubuntu. read more Ubuntu

Everybody working on a UNIX or UNIX-like system who wants to make life easier on themselves, power users and sysadmins alike, can benefit from reading this book. The Bash Guide for Beginners gets you started with Bash scripting and bridges the gap between the Bash HOWTO and the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide. Everybody who wants to make life easier on themselves, power users and sysadmins alike, can benefit from reading this practical course

A python-gtk wrapper for get_iplayer. Makes downloading BBC radio and television programmes easier than ever.

Whilst we wait for chromify-osd  to go through the Chrome App web store process I thought I’d point out some other ways where we could integrate Unity with the web. Here’s what my current New tab looks like in Chrome: read more