Monthly Archives: February 2010

Ubuntu One Music has No Watermarks

This is just a short blog post to note that Matt Griffin has updated the FAQ for the Ubuntu One Music Store that I previously blogged about.

Most notable is probably this update:-

There will be no embedded ‘watermarks’ of any kind on the MP3s in the Ubuntu One Music Store.

Which is of course good …

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Ubuntu One Music Store FAQ

Updated 5 March 22 58:07 UTC

The developers behind the Ubuntu One Music Store have put a FAQ online, which I’ve reproduced below. I’ve been beta testing the store out for a few days and have bought some singles and albums directly in Rhythmbox. In fact I think I was the first person to buy …

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Proxies In The Way Of Testing

Lets say that hypothetically speaking you’re running an application or two which are known to not work behind proxies. What a pickle, especially if those applications have some desire to be online, to communicate with online services. But they can’t.

After a bit of a chat with my friend and fellow podcaster Dave Walker …

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New Ubuntu Podcast Launches

The people behind Full Circle Magazine – the unofficial, community maintained electronic Ubuntu mag – have started a new audio podcast. Created by Robin Catling, Ed Hewitt and Dave Wilkins with additional audio bits by Victoria Pritchard, the first epsiode can be found here in both Ogg Vorbis and MP3 formats.

I was able to …

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You have been eaten by a grue

Thu 18th Feb

I previously blogged about the training for Ubuntu available from Canonical. Today I went through the sample chapters – which incidentally is insanely hard to find. I was told the training was available in the Canonical store. I happened to know the url for the store so went direct to shop.canonical.com but …

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