XVidcap is a screen capture enabling you to capture videos off your X-Window desktop for illustration or documentation purposes. It is intended to be a standards-based alternative to tools like Lotus ScreenCam.

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Skype has been added in the Official Ubuntu Parnters Repository. Read on to see how to install it.

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Update: This does not seem to be working now. Mark Shuttleworth has announced the new Unity interface in the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Here we show you how you can install it in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Warning: Unity is not yet in its final form. Treat this as a preview. To install Unity in Ubuntu…

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Shutter is a great application to take screenshots for the linux desktop. The latest stable version shutter 0.86 was released come days back. Here we will tell you how to install Shutter 0.86 in Ubuntu. To install Shutter 0.86, you have to use the PPA For Shutter Team. To add the PPA in Lucid and…

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Earlier, we wrote about how you can try out Opera 10.50 Alpha for Linux from the source. Now, there is no longer to test it from the source as .deb and .rpm files are now available. It is recommended that you backup your ~/.opera folder if you are already using opera as the alpha will…

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Freenet is a decentralized, censorship-resistant distributed data store. Freenet aims to provide freedom of speech through a peer-to-peer network with strong protection of anonymity. Freenet works by pooling the contributed bandwidth and storage space of member computers to allow users to anonymously publish or retrieve various kinds of information. (via Wikipedia)

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Choqok is a micro-blogging client for KDE and in my opinion, one of the best at that. Recently, the Choqok team released the first beta towards Choqok 1.0. It has various improvements like: Actions to subscribe/unsubscribe and block a user, added to User menu. Support to attach a file (like image) to a dent in…

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Amarok is an audio player for Linux that needs no introduction. This article will outline how you can install Amarok 2.3 Beta 1 codenamed “Altered State” in Kubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. So, before you proceed, remember that this is a beta and there is every possibility of it breaking. So, to install Amarok 2.3 Beta…

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Microsoft SharePoint is a collection of products and software elements that is generally used to host web sites that access shared workspaces, information stores and documents, as well as host defined applications such as wikis and blogs. Installing Sharepoint on your computer requires you to have an active Internet connection. The installation is seriously hampered…

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