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New toy

by Canonical on 8 February 2010

Picked up a N900 the other day. It’s really quite amazing. Best of all it’s linux *and* the keyboard is big enough for my thick fingers. The design isn’t as...

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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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Excuse me!?

by Canonical on 9 December 2009

Excuse me!?

Ubuntu

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...