The design team's a group of fourteen people who comprise a mix of different disciplines: visual / graphics designers, interaction designers, and technical people. "The majority of us come from consultancies and agencies," Ivanka explained. "I was at a user experience consultancy called Flow Interactive, and I used to be a programmer, so I came into user-centered design.
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Ubuntu’s Design Team: Make It Look Good, Run Better
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NetworkManager Gets Facelift for Karmic Koala Ubuntu 9.10
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NetworkManager, the default wired- and wireless-connection client in Ubuntu, has received a substantial aesthetic makeover for Ubuntu 9.10. Here's a look.
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Preview of Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
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The release of the newest version of Ubuntu is only 10 days away. Today we are going to take a look at Kubuntu, the KDE-based version of Ubuntu.
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RPhoto: Almost Perfect Image Viewer [Windows & Linux]
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RPhoto is an open-source image viewer and editor for Windows and Linux. Its origin resides in the lack of a simple software capable of cropping photos with a constant ratio, to avoid white borders when printing.
RPhoto is lightweight, very fast, and offers basic rotate, resize and crop functions, optimizes JPEG files, has a built-in file explorer and is able to read EXIF data.
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Top 5 New Things in Ubuntu 9.10
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1. Installation: Overall the same procedure, but with some minor differences in look and feel. Kind of reminds me of the Windows installation which said that even Windows ME was perfect.
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OpenBSD 4.6 release ships new services, eases installation
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Latest version sports a new mail server and an easier installation; core network and routing tools also improved.
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Fast labels & Card layout with Gimplabels for Gimp
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Gimplabels is a set of scripts for the Gimp image editor that make creating labels and business cards a snap. It works part of its magic by depending on the GUI label designer gLabels.
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Android begins to gain wider acceptance
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There are many Linux based mobile platforms available today: Maemo, Openmoko and Android. Of these, it is probably Android that has created the most noise in and out of open sources circles. Until now however there have not been many successful devices running Google's mobile OS, and the ones that exist didn't present much of a challenge to the iPhone. Things are starting to change however.
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Stream audio wirelessly to your desktop speakers with Karmic Koala
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Some of you might not be aware Karmic comes packed with a brand new version of PulseAudio that has some pretty neat new features built in. Amongst these is support for Apple AirTunes which is a protocol that allows you to stream audio to remote devices over a network.
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You've finally decided to try Linux. The installation went without a hitch (they usually do these days) and you've got a shiny new desktop sitting in front of you. What do you do next?
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Access 100+ Games Instantly With DJL
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For those who always feel that gaming is not suitable in Linux OS and it is always an hassle to install and get games to run in Linux platform, then DJL will definitely change the way you think.
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Conky is a good example of a simple Linux tool
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Linux (and indeed Unix) has long held the philosophy of "one tool for each job, and one job for each tool." This can lead to quite a paradox for newcomers to Linux: Why are there so many tools that do similar things?
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comparing "KDE 4" and "GNOME 3"
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There is small trend currently to write a blog entry or article comparing "KDE 4" and "GNOME 3". Now, I'm not involved in the least with the GNOME 3 efforts (no big surprise there, I'm sure) so I can't and won't comment on what they are doing now or in the future (they can do so themselves quite well), but there are two interesting points I keep seeing raised that I really do want to address ...
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Kahel OS is a remastered version of Arch Linux. Arch Linux has a bit of a reputation as not being particularly friendly to average desktop users. Kahel OS is an effort to change that perception and make it easier for people to use Arch Linux.
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Tasks and To-Dos with Glista 0.4
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If the memory of humans could be measured in removable media and the best would be a BluRay disc, mine would be somewhere around a floppy. Needless to say, I use my phone's reminder function a lot, especially for important stuff with set deadlines. For other "things-to-do-sometime-in-the-future" I want to use a Task manager application that is as simple as possible.
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