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Nexuiz

Nexuiz is one of the most popular First Person Shooter game for Ubuntu. Its an open source and freely available for Ubuntu, Windows and Mac OSX.  Nexuiz emerged after the open-sourcing of the Quake 3 engine.  It is developed by Alientrap.

The 2.5 series bring many improvements, featuring new graphics, new maps and an even faster game play. The latest version is 2.5.2, a bug-fix release to the stable 2.5 release.

TuxArena has published a full review of the latest release Nexuiz 2.5.2

You can read the full review from HERE

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Linux Games

Ubuntu is a very good operating system in all respects.  But in the case computer games, Ubuntu is not comparable with Windows (Mac OSX have the same problem). The reason is most of the high end Game developers are not ready to port it’s windows version to Ubuntu or Mac OSX.

But Ubuntu still have some good open source games. I am not telling about high end games. Some small interesting games

TuxArena have published a review about 3 interesting open source games

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Windows Media Center

Microsoft have revealed it’s new operating system Windows 7 a few months back. Since then computer users and media have been discussing about it.

The importance of multimedia capabilities are increasing in modern era of operating systems. Definitely windows have given great attention in improving multimedia components of Windows 7.

Jayesh Limaye have written a detailed review in Techtree.com about the improvements of Windows 7 multimedia components.

The review covers the following areas.

* WMC desktop gadget
* New Internet TV
* Better and detailed Guide information
* Music cover art background display
* Revamped Pictures Browser
* Slide show creator
* Gaming via WMC

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7Zip Archive Manager

7Zip is gaining much popularity even among enterprise users as perfect alternative for WinRar. It’s hurdle free licence and rich features attract more people.

7Zip is a wonderful archive manager which allow you to manage several type of archives with ease. It can support popular archive types such as zip, rar, gzip, tar and more.

7-Zip is open source software. Most of the source code is under the GNU LGPL license. The unRAR code is under a mixed license: GNU LGPL + unRAR restrictions.

Features :

*  High compression ratio in new 7z format with LZMA compression
* Supported formats:
o Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR
o Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH, LZMA, MSI, NSIS, RAR, RPM, UDF, WIM, XAR and Z.
* For ZIP and GZIP formats, 7-Zip provides a compression ratio that is 2-10 % better than the ratio provided by PKZip and WinZip
* Strong AES-256 encryption in 7z and ZIP formats
* Self-extracting capability for 7z format
* Integration with Windows Shell
* Powerful File Manager
* Powerful command line version
* Plugin for FAR Manager
* Localizations for 74 languages

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MergePDF.net

MergePDF.net is an online service that enable  you to merge your PDF documents to a single document without download a single piece of software. Its a free service and you can merge at most  10 PDF documents at once. As it is a web based service, it will work on Windows, Ubuntu and Mac OSX platforms. It costs nothing to you and does not require admin access in the system you are using.  I think  “Software As Service” is getting more popularity.

Features :

* Maximum number of input files is 10
* Individual file size limit is 5 MB
* All uploaded files are removed after the merge pdf process has finished.

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Google Wave Notifier

Google wave, an innovative product from Google,  have started it’s journey a few months back. Google aim to redefine the way people use internet.  So it will definitely take more time to get a wide acceptance. But still many people uses it in their daily life.

Google Wave Notifier is a new desktop widget which alerts when ever you receive a new Wave. Its and open source program currently available for windows alone. You can get the updates from the system tray.

After logging on, the Google Wave Notifier will automatically inform you of new Waves or replies to existing Waves. When a new Wave appears, a popup will be displayed and the system tray icon will get an overlay icon to indicate you have an unread Wave.

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Pino-twitter

Twitter is getting increased popularity among social media sites. Many people use some sort of desktop client for accessing theirs updates from twitter instead of going directly to twitter.com. We discussed about a social networking addon for Firefox Yoono. But if you are not using Firefox or need only a simple client for twitter, Here is the way to go Pino-twitter.

Pino-twitter is a simple and fast twitter client for Ubuntu. Moreover, its written in Vala language. Programs written in Vala is compiles to native binary code. Hence you get increases speed and less memory usage.

Pino-twitter is still in development stage.

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Jolicloud OS

Jolicloud is a new cloud based operating system developed with growing Netbook popularity in mind.  Unlike Google Chrome OS, its not a fully browser bases OS. It can lots of hardware and desktop applications.

Jolicloud is a Ubuntu based operating system that uses Mozilla Prism technology a lot. So it can deliver cloud based as well as desktop based applications. It can be used as a primary OS or set up a duel boot configuration with Windows.

Jolicloude and Chrome OS are still in development stage. So we cant predict which OS will win the heart of Netbook users. Let’s see.

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Ubuntu

Recently Ubuntu developers released Lucid Lynx Alpha 1. Its just a beginning. Lots of development versions are yet to come. So its very early stage to make a verdict on it.

But first alpha version come with several changes from previous version and most of them are not related to user interface. Each new version of ubuntu gives a feel that ubuntu release previous versions just to study what a customer really want it ubuntu.

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New Wave theme give a modern professional face for your Ubuntu desktop. New Wave had been included in Ubuntu  since Jaunty release. It is basically a dark  theme with perfect blend of orange. So you never miss Ubuntuish feel while running on this theme. The theme is published and available for download at Gnome-Look.org. Detailed installation instruction is also available there.

New Wave Theme for Ubuntu

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