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VirtualBox 4.1.4 Released

04 Oct

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Recently, VirtualBox 4.1.4 has been released and is ready for Ubuntu 11.04. This release has come up with basically bugfixes only as it is a maintenance release. So, no goodies for anyone, atleast for now. But many annoying bugs like memory leak, GUI bugs while running KDE, add support for X.Org Server 1.11, fixed compiz bugs and numerous others. For details regarding the bugfixes please see the changelog.

Download – VirtualBox 4.1.4

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Adobe Flash Player 11 Released

04 Oct

Adobe Flash Player 11 has been released and is for downloads. Flash Player 11 take this even further by introducing Stage 3D, a new architecture for hardware accelerated graphics rendering that delivers 1000x faster rendering performance over Flash Player 10. It enables new classes of console-quality games and immersive apps, such as Tanki Online and Zombie Tycoon. It added native 64-bit support, NVidia VDPAU and Broadcom Crystal HD acceleration.

Download Adobe Flash 11

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Develop Your Apps for Ubuntu 11.10

30 Sep

In the Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, a lot of work has been done to ease how users can create apps for Ubuntu and how they can get their own apps in the Ubuntu Software Center and available to millions of Ubuntu users. Part of delivering this vision is to provide a wide variety and selection of apps; people love and need apps to do their work. Fortunately this a stunning developer platform to harness, there is a need to improve the awareness, accessibility, usability, and delivery of this platform.

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Gnome 3.2 – Desktop Redefined

29 Sep

GNOME 3.2 has been released and is the first follow-up release to its ground-breaking GNOME 3.0. It has undergone a major redesign and now has the user interface for the next generation of the desktop. From 3.2, GNOME is refining the project and starting to introduce new, modern GNOME applications that will deeply integrate with the GNOME 3 experience and which are designed for modern users.

Get Gnome 3.2 Here

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Cairo Dock 2.4.0 Released

28 Sep

Cairo-Dock is a unified dock-like interface for your desktop. Besides a cool dock, it provides a taskbar, and many applets that can be placed either inside the dock or on your desktop, at your convenience ! It is highly customizable and comes with a lot of ready-to-use themes.

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This PPA will install cairo dock in your Ubuntu desktops (yes ! 11.10 also).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cairo-dock-team/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cairo-dock

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The ‘Ubuntu Software Center’ Guide

28 Sep

The Vancouver Ubuntu-loco team has announced the release of a PDF guide to using the Ubuntu Software Center. The guide has of screenshots to illustrate instructions and ideas, and by using accessible language ensures that even linoobs can understand the points being made.

Although the guide  is “…written primarily for the benefit of those coming from the world of proprietary, community-less software where random apps are downloaded from random web sites”, it can still prove useful to existing Ubuntu users.

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Firefox 7.0 Released

28 Sep

Mozilla Firefox 7 final version has been released and has reportedly improved the memory handling problems, has fixed many stability as well as security issues. We recommend all users to upgrade to the latest version for a better web experience. It will arrive in the updates soon but we have also provided PPA for instant-upgrades below.

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Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta Testing

23 Sep

Ubuntu Tweak 0.6 Beta is finally out after a long wait. We wish you all the very best to Tualatrix Chou from the entire open-source community as despite of the hardships he faced in the previous weeks, he is still on the way to get UT 0.6 working. Thank-you very much !

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