Unity 8, Mir Made Progress This Week On Features

Canonical’s Kevin Gunn shared a status update for the advancements made by their team this week on the Mir Display Server and next-generation Unity 8 interface…

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Full Circle Podcast Episode 35, Manchester Girl Geeks Barcamp 2013 Special

Full Circle Podcast Episode 35, Manchester Girl Geeks Barcamp 2013 Special

Welcome to the second of our 2 part conference special, in this episode the presenters reflect on the first ever Manchester Girl Geeks Barcamp held at the MadLab on 16th March 2013

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Your Hosts:

Freaky Clown (twitter @__Freakyclown__)
Les Pounder (blog at http://about.me/lespounder/ twitter @biglesp)
Olly Clark (Google + http://plus.google.com/103073417601965434371/ twitter @ollyclarkdotorg)
Tony Hughes (Google + http://plus.google.com/101988366830118285114/ twitter @TonyH1212)

Show Notes
01:43 | WELCOME and INTRO:
02:59 | REFLECTIONS
Les, Olly & Freaky Clown reflect on the success of the Manchester Girl Geeks first Bracamp

The first Barcamp that was specifically organised to support women
A shift in attendances, 75% Women and 25% Men
All tickets sold and a fairly large waiting list.
Over 70 attendees
Diverse subject matter for talks ranging from Google Analytics to Q&A of a Hacker through to e-textiles

 08:40 | INTRODUCING Ian Forrester

Ian is employed by the BBC and runs the BBC Backstage Project, encouraging you to use our stuff to make your stuff.

He is also heavily involved in organising geek and tech events around the UK,  he helped bring BarCamp to

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Distribution Release: SuperX 2.0

Wrishiraj Kaushik has announced the release of SuperX 2.0, an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution with KDE 4.10.2: "This is SuperX 2.0, code-named ‘Darwin’. It comes with Linux kernel 3.2 and KDE 4.10.2 by default. For those who want newer kernels, they are available in the repository. SuperX 2.0….

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Mozilla's Firefox Flicks Contest Is Calling for Your Short Video

There are lots of people in the U.S. gearing up for a long Memorial Day weekend, and if you happen to have extra time on your hands this weekend you may want to consider entering Mozilla’s Firefox Flicks contest. It’s a global video contest designed to give budding filmmakers the opportunity to create and submit short videos about letting people discover "the power of the web on mobile devices." (We covered it when it launched.) If you submit a short video by May 29, you qualify for Mozilla’s Early Entry status and you’ll be automatically entered to compete for the Grand Prize. Here is more on the prizes and rules.  Mozilla has a number of example videos from the contest online and you can view them here.  The contest runs through July 31, and winners will be chosen from four regions around the world: North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific and Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The Grand Prize winner will fly to Los Angeles to work with producers (and Flicks judges) Franklin Leonard and Couper Samuelson, and representatives from Panavision to professionally produce their winning entry using professional equipment. If you submit a flick by May 29,

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How To Install Emerald In Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 Or 12.04 [PPA]

Emerald Window Decorator development may have stopped and the package is no longer available in the Ubuntu repositories for a few releases, but there are users who want to continue using it, so to make it easier to install, I uploaded Emerald to the main WebUpd8 PPA, for Ubuntu 13.04, 12.10 and 12.04.Emerald is a window decorator for Compiz that allows full composite window decorations. There are many themes out there that come with frames, titlebars, buttons and so on that you won’t see in other window decorators, this being the main reason why Emerald was so popular a while back. Emerald is also highly customizable.Because it requires Compiz, Emerald doesn’t work in GNOME Shell, but it should work with Unity (3D), GNOME Classic with Compiz or Xfce with Compiz for instance.Here are a few of the many Emerald themes available on Gnome-Look, DeviantArt and so on:HalfTime Emerald themeDivergence IV “A New Hope” Emerald themeRadial Emerald themeLittleGlass Emerald themeDark glass with Ambiance buttons Emerald themeOrdinary Emerald themeThe themes can be tweaked using Emerald Theme Manager, which allows you to change the borders size, shadows, titlebar font and alignment and so on. For instance, the LittleGlass theme above has some pretty

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Pinguy OS 13.04 (Final, Yet Beta) Released With GNOME 3.8

Pinguy OS 13.04 (based on Ubuntu 13.04) beta has been released recently, this being basically the final 13.04 version because Pinguy has decided to keep the 6 month releases as betas and only the LTS will be considered stable.The non-LTS releases will be using bleeding edge software, like XBMC 13.0 alpha or GNOME 3.8 / GNOME Shell 3.8 that’s included in Pinguy OS 13.04, which isn’t included by default in Ubuntu 13.04 and so, it isn’t considered fully stable in Ubuntu. According to a recent Pinguy OS blog post, the 6 month releases are usable, but they might not include features that will be available in the LTS:”The 6 month Pinguy OS releases will be missing features that will be in the final LTS, but the release will be very usable. It just won’t be at a stage where I am happy to call it stable due to missing features or things not quite working as they should. The goal of the 6 month releases is to help give users insight and influence on where Pinguy OS is heading and help shape the LTS release”Pinguy OSFor those not familiar with Pinguy OS, this is an Ubuntu remaster with lots of

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Distribution Release: BackBox Linux 3.05

Raffaele Forte has announced the release of BackBox Linux 3.05, an updated version of the project’s Ubuntu-based specialist distribution designed for penetration testing and security assessments: "The BackBox team is pleased to announce the updated release of BackBox Linux, version 3.05. This release includes features such as Linux….

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Development Release: Zorin OS 7 RC

Artyom Zorin has announced that the release candidate for the upcoming new Zorin OS 7, an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution designed with beginning Linux users in mind, is ready for testing: "The Zorin OS team is excited to finally launch the Zorin OS 7 Core release candidate, the….

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Mageia 3 KDE Review: Simple, refined, elegant and fantastic!

For me, the release of Mageia 3 was one of the most anticipated releases of the first half in 2013, after Debian Wheezy and Ubuntu Raring Ringtail. The release announcement of Mageia 3 promises of absolutely the very latest version of Linux kernel and applications, another reason for me to test Mageia’s to ascertain it’s stability.

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Howto Install Dictionary in Ubuntu/Linux Mint and setup for offline use

Howto Install Dictionary in Ubuntu 13.04/12.10/12.04/Any Ubuntu Version/Linux Mint 15/14/13and Setup to Offline Dictionary

GNOME Dictionary is a DICT client written in C by Emmanuele Bassi and others. It is part of the free software GNOME desktop suite, inside the gnome-utils meta-package. This allows users of GNOME to look up words on dictionary sources. Gnome-dictionary was at first an independent DICT protocol client called gdict.

To install Dictionary in Ubuntu/Linux Mint open Terminal (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

sudo apt-get install gnome-dictionary dict-moby-thesaurus dictd dict-gcide

After installation Follow the method to setup Offline Dictionary
Open Gnome-Dictionary and go to Edit Menu -> Preferences

Then click on Add button to setup.
In Description write anything you want.
In Hostname Add this address: 127.0.0.1
and close it.

Now you will in previous preferences windows, Select Offline Dictionary(whatever description you wrote) source here.

And you are done.

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