Banshee and LibreOffice Considered to be Default Applications for Ubuntu 11.04

Banshee is considered to be a potential replacement for Rhythmbox for Ubuntu 11.04 provided that it can overcome the disk space requirements and is able to fit into 1 CD Ubuntu.

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Get Faenza and Ubuntu Icons For Windows 7

You can now get a feel of Ubuntu on your Windows 7 desktop with fan made Faenza and Ubuntu icon packs for Windows 7. These icon packs look really good on Windows 7 and give a native feel specially if you dual boot.

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Excellent Youtube Channel Covering Linux Gaming Videos

Linux Gaming by Jake Ward is an awesome Youtube Channel that covers lots of native Linux as well as Windows games that runs perfectly under Wine. The channel neatly categorises all the videos in simple playlists for easy access like native Linux games, free games, Windows games, must have games etc.

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Set Any Animated Screensaver as Your Desktop Background

Anibg is simple application that allows you to set any of your screensaver as desktop wallpaper. The application is a frontend for Shantz-XWinWrap and uses XScreenSaver.

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Ubuntu 11.04 Will Allow Sponsoring Software Projects, A New Icon Theme on the Lines

Lots of changes have been announced for Ubuntu 11.04 in the keynote by Mark Shuttleworth  at Ubuntu Developer Summit, the most exciting one is probably announcing of Unity as default desktop environment. There are few other things that were announced:

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Unity to Drop Mutter in Favor of Compiz

In our post earlier today, we mentioned that Unity will be the default desktop environment for Ubuntu 11.04. Unity which used Mutter as base for window management until now will use Compiz from 11.04 onwards. 

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Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' Will Have Unity as Default Desktop Environment

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New Elementary Theme Released with Dark Panels

Elementary Theme has hit version 2.0 that brings dark panels and menus and new breadcrumbs among other new features and fixes.

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New Steel Storm Patch Brings Improved Gamepad Support and New Difficulty Modes

Steel Storm is a 3D top down shooter in which you control a special hover-tank with an aim to eliminate hordes of enemies. We covered the game in our post few days back, that you can read from here

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Simple Command Line Utility to Upload and Download files from Megaupload and Rapidshare

Plowshare is a simple command line utility to upload and download files from file hosting services.

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