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116 posts from 2011
My stickers have arrived!
By Canonical, 7 July 2011
The stickers I made in my recent blog post have arrived and they’re lovely!
Overlay Scrollbars – Update
By Canonical, 5 July 2011
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...
Most northerly Ubuntu fan?
By Canonical, 4 July 2011
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...
What’s round and sticky and how you can make some!
By Canonical, 30 June 2011
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...
Bridge Construction Set lands on the Software Center
By Canonical, 29 June 2011
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...
Puzzle Moppet hits the Ubuntu Software Center
By Canonical, 28 June 2011
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...
Ubuntu Billboards: Design on a Grand Scale
By Canonical, 28 June 2011
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...
Kashmiri Arabic script – questions, questions…
By Canonical, 23 June 2011
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...
Sharing Ubuntu with the world
By Inayaili de León Persson, 17 June 2011
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...
Ubuntu Software Center adds Braid
By Canonical, 7 June 2011
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....
Britain's Got Talent and The Cabinet Office – Ubuntu bedfellows in the public cloud.
By Mark Baker, 6 June 2011
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...
Family Farm game in Ubuntu
By Canonical, 2 June 2011
We added Family Farm to the Software Center last week and I took a few hours (of non-work time!) to have a look at it. Summary is that it’s a fun simulation...