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Improved window management shortcuts land in Lucid
by Canonical on 5 February 2010
Sebastian Bacher landed improved Compiz keyboard shortcucts in Lucid this week during the distro sprint in Portland, Oregon (which is by far the best sprint...
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Ending poverty with open hardware
by Canonical on 5 February 2010
The Hexayurt is a new kind of sheltering solution. To make the simplest hexayurt, make a wall by putting six sheets of plywood on their sides in a hexagon....
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Do I really want to touch my computer all day?
by Canonical on 3 February 2010
This concept video has been doing the rounds following a brief showing on Tech Crunch. It looks like a tablet interface you could do work on but I have to...
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Platform sprint in Portland
by Canonical on 2 February 2010
The Ubuntu platform sprint in Portland, Oregon has been an amazing experience. We’ve gotten loads of work done and are having a great time in a wonderful...
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Lucid Paper Jam update!
by Canonical on 26 January 2010
I thought I’d write a quick update on paper cut progress for Lucid. Last week was our “Sound & Video” paper jam. The following paper cuts were fixed:Totem:...
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Improving Launchpad bug workflow for opportunistic programmers
by Canonical on 24 January 2010
I’m a talented software engineer. I have a good deal of application programming experience on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the Web. I’m crazy...
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Draggy Fists
by Canonical on 12 January 2010
It always feels dangerous to mess with the mouse pointer when working with Flash as it has a tendency to vanish entirely if you you miss a mouse eve due to...
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Empathy Paper Jam
by Canonical on 11 January 2010
Last week marked our first “paper jam” for the Lucid cycle, during which the Ubuntu community identified ten potential paper cuts affecting Empathy to fix in...
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A bug in two parts
by Canonical on 8 December 2009
I finally got round to going through the photos on my camera this morning – I still haven’t got round to putting my holiday (August holiday!) photos on Flickr...
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One Hundred Paper Cuts: Karmic summary and Lucid plans
by Canonical on 24 November 2009
Karmic RetrospectiveLong story short: we fixed 76 paper cuts for Karmic. Hooray! Congratulations! For more details, see the Ubuntu wiki page.(I believe we...
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Fresh off the press
by Canonical on 24 November 2009
I just got my copy of “The Book of Inkscape” by Dmitry Kirsanov. It has excellent information for inkscape users both new and old 😉