Faenza-Cupertino: Faenza Icons with a Blue Flavor

Everyone loves Faenza icon set. The square tiles are just perfect for Ubuntu Desktops. Now john007 came up with a new modified version of faenza icon set. The icon set named Faenza-Cupertino modifies the colors of the folders from brown to blue and other rest icons are same as original Faenza theme.

The new set fits perfectly with Elemnetary theme.

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Release Schedule Updated for Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal

The release schedule for Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" had been updated yesterday. The final release is expected on 28th April, 2011. In all there will be five  Alphas, one Beta and a Release Candidate before the final version is released.

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Updrade Ubuntu/Kubuntu to 10.04.1

A new maintenance version for Ubuntu/Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx has been released. Users who are updating their system regularly already  have the 10.04.1 version.

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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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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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