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…add this to my dictionary at work? On a side note: Ubuntero was added for some reason =/

In Windows, my buddy Joel had shown me that Real Player (I know, bear with me) creates a plugin that allows you to directly download flash videos to your computer.  So the adventure began to do the same in Ubuntu. READY!? WAIT FOR IT! WAIT FOR IT!

There is some software/firefox plugins to do this but for me, I prefer the simplest solution which is:

Navigate to >Places >Computer >Filesystem >tmp

When the youtube video you have in your browser is fully downloaded, you can simply drag and drop from tmp onto your desktop, or anywhere else you might like to put it.

Seriously, that’s it.  Thanks to the Ubuntu Forums for coming through again (they always do).  There are plugins and programs, but to me this is too easy

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First, you don’t like how I close my browser.

Then, you make the awesomebar not-so-awesome (thanks for fixing it btw)

But what is this? GNU infringment?! You’re lucky me and Ubuntu like you

I’m stoked at the fact that Ubuntero.org will be relaunching soon with a new design, feel, and complete restructuring of the community.  I’m gonna keep all our goodies hush hush for now but keep your eyes peeled at the site.  Currently we have a letter up explaining where we are and where we went.  So if you had an account there and loved it, we’re sorry - please feel free to come back and check us out.  If you were never there and you want to know more about it, check out the page that’s there and keep coming back.  We’d love to hear your comments on it so far — so leave ‘em here for now.

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Mark Shutterworth aka Ubuntu Lord has announced the new name of 8.10: Intrepid Ibex. Given that Hardy is not even out of Alpha yet, I’d wish they’d taken some more time before radomly picking an animal(?) from the I portion of the dictionary. In case you don’t know, all versions of Ubuntu are named after animals with some clever adjective attached. I’m running on Gutsy Gibbon at the moment, you know a Monkey with Cojones. So I had to go investigate and here’s what I’ve found:

Dude, Mark, Seriously… WTF!? Goats? What’s so cool about a Goat that is Intrepid? I swear it 9.04 better be Jugular Jaguar or else.  That’s strike one Mark, I’m not even gonna look at your freaking track record.  Ok, at least they’ve got some pretty awesome horns.

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