Submit Your Wallpapers for 10.10 : Deadline August, 20

Ubuntu Artwork Group on Flickr is accepting submissions for wallpapers from Ubuntu users all over the world. Winning wallpapers will land into official Maverick Meerkat Pool. By the time I am writing this, there are already 3,991 photos in the group.

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Ubuntu 10.10 will support Multi Touch with uTouch 1.0

Maverick Meerkat will support multi touch with a new gesture stack developed by Ubuntu Developers. The developers have created an open source gesture recognition engine that will be a means for applications  to obtain gesture events from uTouch.

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Automatically Delete Thumbs.db Files

Thumbs.db files are created by windows to store thumbnails cache to make reloading of thumbnails faster. These files are not relevant to Ubuntu and its a good idea to delete them. 

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Screencast Your Keystrokes

One of the main problem we have to face while making a video tutorial is, how are we going to narrate. We can use our voice, or we can open a text editor and type whatever we have to say or we can add subtitles or captions later.

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Easily Search PPAs from Terminal

If you are looking for a particular package and don't know whether a ppa for it exists or not, then this tool can be really handy.

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Turn Ubuntu into a Karaoke Player

If you are looking for nice application that displays the lyrics as the song plays and if you love to sing along then there is a really nice application that can turn your system into a karaoke machine.

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Get ChromOS like App Launcher in Chromium

I found this really nice extension for Chromium/Chrome. This extensions gives a ChromeOS like App Launcher to your browser and allows you to launch many Google services and more from a nice interface with application icons.

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New Version for Rapid Photo Downloader

Rapid Photo Downloader is a simple application that makes importing your snaps and videos from a digital camera a breeze. It has nice features like creation of sub folders and mass renaming.

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System 76 Introduces New Ultra Thin Ubuntu Laptop

System 76 has introduced a new ultra thin laptop that comes with Ubuntu Lucid Lynx (64 Bit) pre-installed.

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3 Must have Firefox Addons for Ubuntu Users

There are not too many Firefox add-ons specific to Ubuntu Users. However I found these three add-ons really useful.

Firefox Notify

With Firefox Notify add-on, you can receive all Firefox notifications through Ubuntu's native d-bus notification system. Works for Gnome as well as KDE environments. It may work on other distros too, you have to try it yourself.

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