Ubuntu 11.04 to be called Natty Narwhal

Mark Shuttleworth has just announced the new codename for Ubuntu 11.04. It is to be called Natty Narwhal. It follows the series: Karmic Koala, Lucid Lynx, Maverick Meerkat and now Natty Narwhal.

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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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Midori Gets a New Version

Webkit based lightweight web browser Midori gets a new update. New features include:

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Customize your Icons with Any Color You Like

Switzak  has made an excellent application that allows Ubuntu users to customize a monochrome icon set with different styles, the way they like.

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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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