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Easily Customize Your GDM Login Screen

Ubuntu has always been an easily customizable desktop operating system, from complete icon themes to window decorations. Unfortunately with the release of the latest version of Ubuntu Karmix Koala, the GDM (login screen) customization section was removed as the boot up process was changed significantly. Thanks to a new application called gdm2setup, effortless customization ability is now once again possible. read more… »

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Moovida, A Media Centre for Ubuntu

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Getting Skype On Your Ubuntu Computer

Skype is undoubtedly a world leader in internet telephony. Skype offers free Skype to Skype calls and also has the ability to call out to standard phones, around the world. Installing and using Skype on your Ubuntu machine is no longer a hassle as Skype has being putting effort into their Linux version of their Internet softphone.

Installing The Gnome Device Manager on Ubuntu

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Mozilla Firefox Web Browser

firefox

Firefox delivers safe, easy web browsing. A familiar user interface, enhanced security features including protection from online identity theft, and integrated search let you get the most out of the web.

Installations

Already installed by default

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Mozilla Thunderbird, Email and News Client

Thunderbird is a lightweight mail/news/RSS client, based on the Mozilla suite. It supports different mail accounts (POP, IMAP, Gmail), has an integrated learning Spam filter, and offers easy organization of mails with tagging and virtual folders. Also, more features can be added by installing extensions.

Installation

sudo apt-get install thunderbird

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Empathy Multi Protocol Instant Messenger

empathy Instant messaging program supporting text, voice, video, file transfers
and inter-application communication over many different protocols,
including: AIM, MSN, Google Talk (Jabber/XMPP), Facebook, Yahoo!, Salut,
Gadu-Gadu, Groupwise, ICQ and QQ.

Installation

Installed by default

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Evolution Mail, Calender and Address Book Client

Evolution is a groupware suite which integrates mail, calendar,
address book, to-do list and memo tools.extensions.

Installation

Installed by default

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Avant Window Navigator

awn The avant-window-navigator is a MacOS X like panel for the GNOME Desktop written in C. In addition to launchers that can be dragged onto the bar, it features a taskbar that behaves similarly to the Mac OSX dock. The window navigator uses the composite extension for transparency and other effects.

Installation

Click here for installation guide

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Gnome Desktop

Gnome is desktop environment for Linux systems. It powers the graphical user interface of gnome.

“The GNOME project provides two things: The GNOME desktop environment, an intuitive and attractive desktop for users, and the GNOME development platform, an extensive framework for building applications that integrate into the rest of the desktop.”

Songbird Media Player

Songbird is an audio player with an integrated web browser. Songbird user the mozilla XUL runner (as used in firefox) for web rendering and the Gstreamer framework for audio playback. read more… »

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Pidgin Multi Protocol Instant Messenger

pidgin Pidgin is a graphical, modular Instant Messaging client capable of using AIM/ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, IRC, Jabber/XMPP, Napster, Zephyr, Gadu-Gadu, Bonjour, Groupwise, Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, QQ, and MySpaceIM all at once.