Addictive Linux Game 'Steel Storm' Released

Arcade shooter game Steel Storm Episode 1 version 1.0 is released which was only available as beta until now. The game is quite addictive with fast paced action that wants you to annihilate hordes of enemies . Episode 1 is available as free download for Linux, Mac and Windows users.

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How to Install LibreOffice in Ubuntu

The media has been abuzz with OpenOffice being forked into LibreOffice by The Document Foundation in past couple of days. The Document Foundation, has already released a beta version of Libre Office that can be installed on Ubuntu.

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2 Simple Chromium Extensions For Ubuntu Users

We featured a post on 'Three Must have Firefox Add-ons for Ubuntu Users' some time back. I wanted to do a similar post for Chrome/Chromium but could not find many extensions specifically made for Ubuntu users. So I decided to share these two extensions available as of now.

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Listen to Text and Instant Messages with Gespeaker 'Text To Speech' Utility

Gespeaker 'Text to Speech' utility is a GTK+ frontend for Espeak , that allows you to listen to text in many different languages. The utility also allows you to listen received messages from Empathy and others instant messengers.

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How to Enable 'Tabbed Options' in Chromium

Chromium has a labs feature through which you can enable 'Tabbed Options' in Ubuntu. Its very easy to do but will require Chromium daily build version.

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Get Hotot , A New Stylish Twitter Client for Ubuntu [From PPA]

Hotot is a new Twitter client that comes with all the basic features a Twitter client has, that is support for status updates, retweets, directs, search etc., plus some really interesting features.  

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OpenShot Video Editor 1.2.2 Released with New Effects, 3D Titles and Netbook Optimizations

OpenShot video editor is one of the best video editor available for Linux platform. The development has been really fast and the video editor has come a long way.

The video editor is developed by Jonathan Thomas. The new version comes with lots of features:

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'Steadyflow' Download Manager Gets Firefox Support through FlashGot

We recently posted an article about a new download manager in development for Ubuntu - 'Steadyflow'. The development is going on at  fast pace. The download manager have already got Firefox integration through FlashGot.

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Take a Screenshot of Your Favorite App and Get it Featured in Ubuntu Software Centre

Canonical Design Team just came up with new a post urging Ubuntu users to help update screenshots for their favourite applications so that old outdated one can be phased out.

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New 'Steadyflow' Download Manager for Ubuntu

Steadyflow is a new download manager for Ubuntu that uses a simple 'Transmission' like interface and has a impressive list of features.

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Easily Create Picture Slideshows and Set as Wallpapers

Gnome Slideshow Background XML creator lets you create an xml file from pictures in a folder that create links to all your pictures. Just add the xml file to background tab in appearance window and you are done.

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Smuxi IRC Client Gets Major Update with Twitter OAuth Support

Smuxi is an irssi-inspired, flexible, user-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users, targeting the GNOME desktop.

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New Cairo Dock (GLX Dock) Beta Released

Cairo Dock has come up with a new beta version in its development series 2.2. The new series aims at bringing lots of fixes, performance optimizations and new features. Highlights of the new series:

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Get Windows 7 like Taskbar in Ubuntu with Talika

With Talika Gnome Panel Applet, you can get a Windows 7 like taskbar in Ubuntu. It is a lightweight alternative to the default window manager in Ubuntu and it supports window previews.

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CLIcompanion 1.0 Release Candidate is Out

A new release candidate version of CLIcompanion has been released. For those who don't know what CLIcompanion is, here is a explanation by the developer:

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Desktop Recovery Feature Comes to Ubuntu Tweak Stable Version

Desktop Recovery feature that was introduced in Ubuntu Tweak Beta a few days back comes to the stable version.

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Backup and Restore Settings : New Ubuntu Tweak Beta

A new Ubuntu Tweak Beta has been released and it comes with some really nice features.

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Cardapio is Maverick Ready

Cardapio is an alternative application menu launcher to the default menu bar that comes with Ubuntu. It can also be used as an standalone application launcher just like Gnome Do. Cardapio have a native gtk interface that integrates well with the gnome desktop environment. It also includes a plugin system that  integrates different types search capabilities like file search, google search, youtube video search etc.

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New Amarok Beta Released

Amarok Developers have released a new beta version (2.3.2) of the popular music player which is up for testing by users.

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Encode: ffmpeg Video Converter with GUI (supports .ogv conversion)

Encode is a GUI for ffmpeg that can convert videos to a number of different formats. It includes typical video converter features like selection of video output format, audio output format, resolution, bitrate, sampling frequency and aspect ratio.

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