Animated Dash Resizing [New Unity Video]

N J Patel, from Unity development team has tweeted about a new upcoming feature in Unity - dynamic resizing of dash with nice smooth animation effect when a search keyword is entered.

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Ryzom MMORPG Removes Game Limits, Almost Free to Play Now

Ryzom 3D MMORPG for Linux has removed lots of limits and caps for new players who want to play the game without a paid subscription. Instead, the developers have chose to keep a Level limit of 125 beyond which new players will stop getting experience points.

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Alien Arena 7.51 Released

A new version of popular multi-player game Alien Arena has been released today that brings new fixes and features to the game.

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New Chrome Extension Brings Support for All Linux Download Managers

Download Assistant Extension for Chrome/Chromium finally brings much requested feature for Linux - download manager support. The extension until now supported only Windows but a new update yesterday has brought in Linux support too.

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Firefox 4 Release Candidate is Here

Mozilla team has finally rolled out a release candidate of long awaited next generation web browser Firefox 4.

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Bye Bye Ubuntu Netbook Edition

There will be no separate Ubuntu Netbook Edition in Ubuntu 11.04 and onwards as it is being merged into what we can call simply 'Ubuntu' for the sake of simplicity and consistency.

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Ubuntu 11.10 to be Called 'Oneiric Ocelot'

The next version of Ubuntu - 11.10 will be known as 'Oneiric Ocelot' as announced by Mark Shuttleworth on his blog.

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KDE Hybrid Launcher for Task Manager Plasmoid

Sup people this be gotbletu, this is my first guest post on here.

There is this cool feature that KDE 4.6 has with the 'Task Manager' Plasmoid.It's called "Show A Launcher For [Program] When It Is Not Running". Thats kind of a long ass name, so I personally call it the "Hybrid Launcher" hahah

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Kill GNOME 2.x Min/Maximize Buttons Also

When I heard GNOME3 was going to get rid of the 'Minimize' and 'Maximize' Buttons, it was no shock to me. I can see how you can argue that it might be a problem for new switchers to Linux but thats another debate.

Anyways, you can do it on GNOME 2.x also, Honestly you don't really need those 2 buttons. And let me explain how it can be replaced.

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Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 3 Released - Overview and Screenshots

Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' Alpha 3 has been released today that brings many fixes, improvements and new features over the last Alpha 2. For Ubuntu 11.04, a feature freeze is already in place and Alpha 3 is first release after that.

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