Maverick Meerkat Themes (Beta) Released, Get Them Now!

Canonical Design Team just released new themes (beta) for the next Ubuntu version Maverick Meerkat scheduled to be released on 10.10.10 (October 10, 2010). For now there is only Ambiance theme, Radiance will follow soon.

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Two Must Have Icon Sets for Every Ubuntu User

Many Ubuntu users don't like the default icon set particularly with orange tone. If you want to change these icons there are two beautiful alternatives.

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Ubuntu?? You've Got To Be Kiddin' Me !!

As a personal initiative, I convinced my classmates and installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on 15 systems as a dual boot option with windows 7. We are studying business administration and we have to write lots of projects on our computers when we are not playing games, watching movies, listening to music, sharing stuff or chatting with friends on it.

One week down the lane, only 3 are actually using Ubuntu, rest just gave up. This is what they said:

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Why My Ubuntu Netbook is so damn SLOW??

Many times we face a situation when our Ubuntu Netbook becomes pretty slow. And when we check out our RAM, we find that only half of our RAM is used and the SWAP memory usage is gone upto 25% or 50% or even more. Confused??

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Ubuntu: Script to Convert All Types of Images & Videos

Want a simple way to quickly convert your images and videos without downloading any extra applications?

Well there is a simple nautilus script AVCONVERT by marc41 that will take care of all your conversion needs.

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Play Hundreds of Free Games in Ubuntu or any Linux Distro !!!

I will keep it short. Just a few words before you guys watch the video.

All these games are classic games, the one we used to play in 80's and 90's. Some people may find them too obsolete but they are meant for old school fun. These games are free to download and play.

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Wine 1.3.0 Development Version is Released

Wine released a new development series 1.3.0 just fews days after it came up with final and stable version of 1.2 series.

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Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat Alpha 3 is Out !!

The third Alpha of Ubuntu 10.10.10 Maverick Meerkat is out.

Some notable new features include new improved software centre, sound indicator with music player integration, embeded calender in date and time applet, improved unity netbook edition.

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Customizing Ubuntu with ease

After the fresh install of Ubuntu, everyone is really keen to customize it, add some repositories, install applications and give some eye candy to Ubuntu. However many new users don't know where to look for new applications, themes etc. This can be taken care of by installing Ubuntu Tweak. 

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Welcome

Hello Everyone! Welcome to Ubuntu Vibes!

Ubuntu Vibes is a new blog that focuses on serving latest news and information to Ubuntu users. The blog will cover  application reviews, new themes, docks and almost everything in eye candy as well as usability tweaks. The blog aims to engage Ubuntu users in active conversation with each other & share their thoughts.

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