 | After Apple introduced touchpads which supports multi-touch in Macbooks, Synaptic has also come out with its own version of multi-touch touchpad called Clickpad. It supports many multi-touch gestures like two finger scrolling, zooming, right-click etc. However, none of these works out of the box in Ubuntu 10.10. It is not yet possible to enable all… |
 | If you use a mouse with your laptop, there is a a good probability that more often than not the touchpad gets in the way. In some laptop, there is a physical button to turn on/off the touchpad, but many do not have it. However, you can easily install a install Touchpad Indicator to switch… |
 | Last week, Bill Filler from Canonical created a flutter when he announced Unity 2D for computers which cannot run the normal Unity 3D. Unity 3D requires Compiz and thus requires computers capable of 3D-acceleration to run. Unity 2D, technically known as Unity-Qt, is based on Qt/QML and has been designed to run on the slower computers…. |
 | Ok, there is no confirmation about this and Mark Shuttleworth is generally the one to announce the new name, so take this with a pinch of salt. So, apparently Ubuntu 11.10 will be called Oscillating Ocelot. This fits the naming convention that Ubuntu follows, but so does about 50 other names. This was tweeted by… |
 | Aside from Unity, the Software Center is one of the main areas of development in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narhwal. It is getting a lot of new features like support for user ratings, reviews etc. Another feature – search suggestion – has quietly landed in trunks. The search suggestion suggests the correct package name in case… |
 | Canonical has a new Ubuntu branded keyboard for sale on their website. The keyboard is made from silicon which makes it moisture resistant, easy to clean and it is flexible – you can just roll it up and take it with you. It even has a screaming huge Ubuntu logo on the left. |
 | A Chinese manufacturer TENQ has launched an Ubuntu OS powered tablet called P07. The device is said to be running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition and the boot time reported to be almost instant. |
