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Half-Life And Counter-Strike Games Now Available Natively For Linux [Steam] 27 Jan 2013 | 12:01 am
Valve has released the original Half Life 1 and Counter Strike 1.6 games for Linux (and OS X). Both Half Life and Counter Strike are currently in beta and even though Linux is not yet displayed as a ...
Eclipse IDE: Get Ubuntu AppMenu And HUD Support 24 Jan 2013 | 10:21 pm
By default, the popular Eclipse IDE does not support the Ubuntu AppMenu or HUD. The reason for this is that Eclipse has been blacklisted so it wouldn't use the AppMenu around the time of Ubuntu 10.10...
uGet Download Manager 1.10.3 Gets New Icon, Mirrors Support 24 Jan 2013 | 05:00 pm
uGet 1.10.3 has been released today with a new application icon, support for mirrors and more. uGet is a GTK3 download manager that can make use of aria2 (a command line download accelerator) to acce...
Elegant Image Viewer `Photo` Sees New Release 24 Jan 2013 | 04:10 am
"Photo", a fancy Qt image viewer, has been updated recently with new features some of you have requested, such as a slideshow, new settings and others. Photo is an image viewer in which the image is ...
Ubuntu Might Become A Rolling Release Distribution Between LTS Releases 23 Jan 2013 | 10:27 pm
Ubuntu may become a rolling release distribution, but keeping LTS (Long Term Release) releases every two years. Leann Ogasawara, Canonical Kernel Team Manager has said in a recent Google+ hangout tha...
Get Ubuntu NotifyOSD Notifications To Show Up On Active Monitor In Multi-Screen Environments [Quick Tip] 10 Oct 2012 | 05:16 pm
By default, the Ubuntu NotifyOSD notification bubbles are displayed on only one monitor in multi-monitor setups, which might be useful in some situations, but it doesn't make sense in most cases. For...
Keep Your Desktop Fresh With Variety Wallpaper Changer 9 Oct 2012 | 09:16 pm
Variety is a wallpaper changer application that works with most desktop environments (KDE, LXDE, Xfce and Unity / GNOME Shell) and, besides being able to change your wallpaper automatically on an inte...
Alternative YouTube Video Lens Updated With Previews, More [Ubuntu 12.10] 9 Oct 2012 | 04:10 pm
A while back, Lorenzo has created an alternative video lens and YouTube scope for Unity, which can be used to easily search and play YouTube videos using an external player of your choice. Unity in U...
Ubuntu Tweak 0.8.0 Gets New `Apps` Feature 8 Oct 2012 | 06:39 pm
Ubuntu Tweak, the most popular tool to tweak various Ubuntu settings as well as add third-party sources (PPAs), has reached version 0.8.0, introducing a new feature called "Apps", a combination betwee...
Speed Up apt-get Downloads With apt-fast [Ubuntu PPA] 5 Oct 2012 | 10:29 pm
Apt-fast is a script that can "drastically improve APT download speed" by using command line download accelerators such as Axel or Aria2 with multiple connections per package. We've actually blogged ...
