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35+ Ubuntu Icon Themes

Posted on October 19th, 2010 by kate.p in Themes | 13 comments

ubuntu gdm themesThis is multipage post dedicated to best of Ubuntu Icon Themes. Feel free to download and then apply any of them to make your Ubuntu look even better. If you wish to share something here — just contact me via e-mail and your icon theme will appear here soon.

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Banshee 1.8 Released!

Posted on September 30th, 2010 by kate.p in Applications, News | 0 comments

banshee logoThe latest stable version of the most inspirational music player for Ubuntu has been finally released. Banshee 1.8 comes with dramatical list of improvements, changes and bugfixes including official support of Amazon MP3 store, Miro Podcasts, reworked Apple devices support and much more. See below for more details.

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Wallpapers for Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat

Posted on August 30th, 2010 by kate.p in Wallpapers | 6 comments

A few days ago Canonical presented final set of wallpapers that will come with long awaited Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat. This exploded with lively discussion including “Wow, that looks awesome!” and “It looks ugly!”. I believe it is the natural idea to have a look at those wallpapers by yourself and create your own opinion. In order to download any of below wallpapers — right click on the image and press “Save Link As…”. Or download complete archives from here or here.

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Top 100 widescreen wallpapers for your Ubuntu

Posted on August 23rd, 2010 by kate.p in Wallpapers | 5 comments

wallpaper iconToday I would like to share the links to top 100 of the best wallpapers for Ubuntu. Most of them has resolutions of 1920×1200 so are for widescreens. This post is multi-page one so you are welcome to navigate it using corresponding links above. BTW, If you would like to share certain wallpaper that is not listed in this post — just send it to me via e-mail and it will appear here shortly (except wallpapers violating someone’s copyright). Thanks to gnome-look.org that is primary source of the best wallpapers, themes and similar stuff for Ubuntu and other Linux distrubutions.

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Power your [Ubuntu] laptop by Water or Sun

Posted on August 19th, 2010 by kate.p in Gadgets | 1 comment

There is vast variety of [cheap] solar chargers for mobile gadgets like players or cell phones but how to power my [Ubuntu loaded] laptop while I’m on vacation somewhere at muddy site? There are at least two options: portable solar laptop chargers and personal water-powered generators. See more about both below in this post.

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Run Cisco Packet Tracer in Ubuntu

Posted on July 26th, 2010 by kate.p in Quick Tips | 18 comments

Cisco logoCisco Systems corporation names Packet Tracer as a powerful tool for network simulation program allowing network academy students to analyze network behavior gaining learning experience. As a holder of CCNA status and Ubuntu enthusiast I completely agree with above description. See below how to install and run Packet Tracer in your Ubuntu.

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Ubuntuka Weekly Roundup #3

Posted on July 25th, 2010 by kate.p in Roundups | 0 comments

weekly roundupBelow are the links to the posts published at Ubuntuka this passing week. If you find them interesting you are welcome to subscribe to our RSS feed to stay tuned.

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Linux Portable Apps

Posted on July 21st, 2010 by kate.p in Quick Tips | 1 comment

linux portable apps logoLinux portable applications run from removable media like USB drives, CD or similar without installation. Just imagine you copy pidgin IM client to USB flash drive and can use it on any Linux distribution including Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva whatever: no need to find pidgin package for specific distribution, no need to install it as binary .deb or .rpm or compile it from sources (yes, I know people who still compile pidgin from tag.gz sources), no need to gain root rights for installation. Just download one of Linux portable apps, copy it to USB and run it anywhere!

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Ubuntuka Weekly Roundup #2

Posted on July 18th, 2010 by kate.p in Roundups | 0 comments

weekly roundupBelow are the links to the posts published at Ubuntuka this passing week. If you find them interesting you are welcome to subscribe to our RSS feed to stay tuned.

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Ubuntuka Weekly Roundup #1

Posted on July 11th, 2010 by kate.p in Roundups | 0 comments

weekly roundupBelow are the links to the posts published at Ubuntuka passing week. If you find them interesting you are welcome to subscribe to our RSS feed to stay tuned.

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