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7 July 2011

My stickers have arrived!

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The stickers I made in my recent blog post have arrived and they’re lovely! ...

Canonical
5 July 2011

Overlay Scrollbars – Update

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When we introduced the new overlay scrollbars we knew it was a bold decision and we were expecting some critics because of the use cases we didn’t support. As hoped, we had a lot of very useful feedback. Most of the people very liked this innovation and understood our need to be consistent to our ...

Canonical
4 July 2011

Most northerly Ubuntu fan?

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This week we got a fun update from our traveling team member Ivanka! While passing through Dawson City in northern Canada Ivanka and Nick met Chalsie Warren and she recognised the Ubuntu stickers on their bike! This got me wondering whether we can track down the most extreme users starting with the most northerly Ubuntu ...

Canonical
30 June 2011

What’s round and sticky and how you can make some!

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Some of you out there may have already seen that funky print shop MOO.com just launched a new product, round stickers. This means that you can now upload round images and make lovely bespoke stickers in a pack of 52. Full disclosure before I start to say that I used to work at MOO.com which ...

Canonical
29 June 2011

Bridge Construction Set lands on the Software Center

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Chronic Logic’s award winning game, Bridge Construction Set, is officially for sale in the Ubuntu Software Center. In Bridge Construction Set you build a bridge that hopefully does not break, however having a train plunge into the depths below may be fun for some! You must use your physics knowledge to build a bridge then ...

Canonical
28 June 2011

Puzzle Moppet hits the Ubuntu Software Center

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The newest addition to the Ubuntu Software Center is Puzzle Moppet from Garnet Games. The poor little Moppet is lost and all alone in the wilderness. How are you going to help it get out? This interesting game requires you to solve puzzles to help Moppet find it’s way. Puzzle Moppet is a challenging 3D ...

Canonical
28 June 2011

Ubuntu Billboards: Design on a Grand Scale

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It’s been five years since people spotted the last Ubuntu billboards in the wild. This time Mauricio Pretto sent a set of photographs of driving between the airport in Porto Alegre, Brazil and the Fórum Internacional Software Livre (International Free Software Forum) venue where Canonical and Ubuntu have a stand for FISL 2011: ...

Canonical
23 June 2011

Kashmiri Arabic script – questions, questions…

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We are now putting the two complex scripts Hebrew and Arabic together. Although the basic design of the Arabic was finalised some months ago we have been doing a lot of background work investigating language support, and thus defining a glyph set. This work has led us to have aprox. another 1,000 glyphs in the font supporting languages su ...

Inayaili de León Persson
17 June 2011

Sharing Ubuntu with the world

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We all know Ubuntu is great, but we want even more people to know just how great. With this in mind, we thought we’d give the visitors of ubuntu.com the tools to spread the word about Ubuntu. As of today, you can see Tweet and Like buttons on some of the key pages of the ...

Canonical
7 June 2011

Ubuntu Software Center adds Braid

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Braid is the newest addition to the Ubuntu Software Center. Braid is a really cool puzzle game where the player manipulates the flow of time to solve puzzles. Every puzzle in the game is unique. The puzzles give your mind a workout. The player is able to alter reality in the form of manipulation of ...

Mark Baker
6 June 2011

Britain's Got Talent and The Cabinet Office – Ubuntu bedfellows in the public cloud.

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Last week saw the culmination of one of the UK’s most popular TV shows – Britain’s Got Talent. The way in which this show over five series has captured the attention of the British public is quite incredible, with the majority of popular media outlets dedicating significant space to the contestants, the judges, rumours about ...

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