New Maverick Meerkat Wallpapers: Ubuntu Artwork Shortlist

The Ubuntu Artwork group on flickr shortlisted 20 wallpapers to be featured in Ubuntu 10.10 out of a whooping 5,345 submssions. Have a look, download and set one of them as dektop background now.

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New Gnome Shell 'Date and Time' Mockup

A few days back, a new mockup for Gnome Shell was shown at GUADEC. Now, a mockup for date and time came out which looks really neat.

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Choose Addons while Installing Applications: Ubuntu Software Center

There has been no new posts in last couple of days as I was travelling. Now that I am back to work, something about the new 'Software Center' in Maverick will be a nice start.

The Software Center came up with yet another impressive feature: Install related addons/plug-ins while installing your favorite applications.

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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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Catagorize your Docky Icons with these Wonderful Labels

It would be really nice if we would be able to categorize a set of icons on docky and give a particular label to it. As such docky does not support labeled catagories. However, salathaendler came up with this innovative idea that makes it possible. Take a look:

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Rate Your Photos with New Shotwell Version

Shotwell, the default photo manager for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat just got a new version. The new version 0.7 brings lots of new features like importing photos from F-spot. A complete list of new features is below:

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New Unity Version 0.2.28 Released

The netbook interface Unity for Ubuntu 10.10 got a new update. The new version brings lots of new features to the Unity interface.

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Now You can Install Google Voice and Video Chat on Ubuntu

Google has finally provided support for video and voice chat on Ubuntu.

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New Ubuntu One Alpha Released for Kubuntu 10.10

A new version of Ubuntu One client for Kubuntu 10.10 has been released.  The version is first alpha release following a earlier pre-alpha version. Most of the features work fine for Kubuntu but there may be bugs.

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