Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' Release Candidate is Available Now, Complete Review

Ubuntu 10.10 codenamed 'Maverick Meerkat' just reached to Release Candidate version. The final version will be released on October, 10.

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Ubuntu Software Center will have Zeitgeist Integration in Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal'

Ubuntu Software Center will have Zeitgeist integration in Ubuntu 11.04 as announced by Michael Vogt on his blog. Seif Lotfy, from Zeitgeist Developers' Team proposed the idea of possible integration of Zeitgeist into Ubuntu Software Center.

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2 Simple Chromium Extensions For Ubuntu Users

We featured a post on 'Three Must have Firefox Add-ons for Ubuntu Users' some time back. I wanted to do a similar post for Chrome/Chromium but could not find many extensions specifically made for Ubuntu users. So I decided to share these two extensions available as of now.

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Ubuntu Font Officially Lands into Maverick, Final Installer Slideshow Revealed

Ubuntu font finally lands into Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat". The font may be activated by default for the supported languages. If not then you have to change the font in your appearance settings.

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Listen to Text and Instant Messages with Gespeaker 'Text To Speech' Utility

Gespeaker 'Text to Speech' utility is a GTK+ frontend for Espeak , that allows you to listen to text in many different languages. The utility also allows you to listen received messages from Empathy and others instant messengers.

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How to Enable 'Tabbed Options' in Chromium

Chromium has a labs feature through which you can enable 'Tabbed Options' in Ubuntu. Its very easy to do but will require Chromium daily build version.

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Get Hotot , A New Stylish Twitter Client for Ubuntu [From PPA]

Hotot is a new Twitter client that comes with all the basic features a Twitter client has, that is support for status updates, retweets, directs, search etc., plus some really interesting features.  

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OpenShot Video Editor 1.2.2 Released with New Effects, 3D Titles and Netbook Optimizations

OpenShot video editor is one of the best video editor available for Linux platform. The development has been really fast and the video editor has come a long way.

The video editor is developed by Jonathan Thomas. The new version comes with lots of features:

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Update Your Light Themes in Maverick

A third update to light theme has been released. The Changes are:  

Menu item speed-up
Subtle shadow on inactive notebook’s tabs  
White text colour on GtkProgressBar  
Increased visibility of the resize gripper  
Fixed contrast applied to elements in GtkStatusbar  
More compatibility with custom colour specified in Appearance Preferences  
Increased contrast between text and background   
Tweaks to the odd row color inside GtkTreeView        

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'Steadyflow' Download Manager Gets Firefox Support through FlashGot

We recently posted an article about a new download manager in development for Ubuntu - 'Steadyflow'. The development is going on at  fast pace. The download manager have already got Firefox integration through FlashGot.

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