Install Updated Overlay Scrollbars in Ubuntu 11.04

A new version of overlay scrollbars has been released bringing in smart edge detection behavior, new orange highlight around the thumb and many other fixes.

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Screenshots: Unity and Gnome 3 in Oneiric

This is follow up to our yesterday's post about the new Unico GTK3 theming engine in Oneiric. I will skip  providing instructions on installing the new Ambiance theme (based on Unico engine) as you will have to tweak lots of system settings using gsettings and dconf-editor. Also I think, sooner or later you will be able to change most of these settings from a GUI. 

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Meet Unico, The New GTK3 Theme Engine in Ubuntu 11.10

Gnome 3 stack is steadily landing into Oneiric. Work is also being done to port default themes Ambiance and Radiance to GTK3.

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New Version for Xnoise Brings Tags Editing and Subtitles Support

New version for lightweight music player Xnoise brings tag editing and subtitles support for video playback.

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Psensor 0.6.2.8 Released, The Best Way to Display System Temperatures in Unity

Psensor 0.6.2.8 has been released and is now available in its unstable repository. Psensor is a graphical temperature monitoring tool for Linux. Psensor has already been added to Ubuntu 11.10 archives so it will be available to download from software center in Oneiric.

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[Quick Tip] Add Unread Count Notifications to Your Pinned Tabs in Firefox

One main feature I miss from pinned tabs in Firefox is unread count notifications. I really like the unread count shown by Google Reader, Twitter etc. But pinning them as AppTabs only shows a favicon.

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New Version Released for 'Greedy Car Thieves', Getting Better and Better

Greedy Car Thieves has just reached a new version which brings many new features and fixes to this much anticipated Linux game. We covered this game in past and the response has been great within the Linux community. The game is heavily under development and these builds are test versions having multi-player mode at the moment.

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Fun Platform Game 'Caveman' is Coming Soon to Linux

Fun and addictive puzzle game Caveman is coming soon to Linux. Caveman is already available for iPad, iPhone and Palm Web OS and has got really good user reviews.

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Lightweight Music Player DeaDBeeF 0.5.0 Released

Lightweight music player DeadBeeF has reached version 0.5.0 after six months of development. Numerous bug fixes and features have landed into this version. 

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Get the Best of Both Worlds,Your Own Alternative to the Default Unity Main Menu

There are many Ubuntu users who like Unity interface and its ability to optimize screen space. But the default main menu is a bit of pain as all the categories are hidden by default and it does not support wine menus. There is an application lens but it is way down at the bottom, not movable and most of the time it is folded as I pin lots of applications on Unity launcher.

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