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18Apr Hardy cds

The latest Ubuntu version is almost out of the oven! With less than a week remaining, cds are already ready for your orders! Go ahead, place your request at ShipIt from canonical, and have your cds freely shipped to you. Order some extra, spread the love, offer them to your friends and neighbors!

11Mar Gnome-Do

Recent gnome’s project, gnome-do, is awesome! For anyone not aware of it, you just time almost anything you want to do, and gnome will..Well, Do it! I’ve tried Queen, and the music started playing, a nick from a friend, and the conversation is open with pidgin, some page I’ve visited, and I get there imidiatly, [...]

18Feb Ubuntu Developer Week

It starts today!

09Feb Ubuntu Hardy, Alpha 5

Great news to the next alpha for the upcoming Ubuntu 8.04! To everyone who got interested in my last post, this version already ships all the mtp stuff needed to connect to those new creative mp3 players. I’ve worked a bit myself on it, by merging the latest libmtp. Another great feature is the disk [...]

12Jan Creative Zen + Linux

I’ve bought yesterday a Creative Zen. As a player, it is really good, as you can see in many reviews. Despites that, I’ve had a hard time, managing to get it to work in my laptop with Ubuntu. Finally, I’ve came up with a solution. The comunication with the device must be done via MTP, [...]

11Jan KDE 4.0

Despites my preference for GNOME, congratulations to the KDE team for their great work, developing KDE 4.0, which appears to be just great!