Ubuntu 11.04 switches to LibreOffice in latest daily builds

Back in September 2010, when Google, Novell and others announced the LibreOffice fork of OpenOffice, Canonical frontman Mark Shuttleworth said "The Ubuntu Project will be pleased to ship LibreOffice from The Document Foundation in future releases." In recent 11.04 Natty Narwhal daily builds, the change has finally taken place.

Download yourself a new Ubuntu 11.04 daily build .ISO, and you'll have LibreOffice installed from the get-go -- no PPA required. Natty is currently in the early stages, of course, so expect a few bumps in the road if you decide to take it for a test drive.

Ubuntu 11.04 switches to LibreOffice in latest daily builds originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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The Top Ten Things We Can't Believe Eric Schmidt Ever Said [Google]

Eric—it's been great. We're going to miss you as CEO of one of history's most important and influential companies. But we'll also miss you for the strange, creepy, absurd, and downright dumb things you've uttered. Below, our favorites: More »


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Star Wars Blu-ray discs to arrive September 27th according to Amazon

Even a flashy CES announce event wasn't enough for Fox and George Lucas to reveal an exact release date for the arrival of Star Wars on Blu-ray, but now Amazon has updated its preorder ship dates to September 27th. We wouldn't schedule a day off of work to dive into the promised 30 hours of special features until there's some sort of official word, but since it is a Tuesday it seems a logical time to expect these discs (in full Complete Saga form or either trilogy set by itself, you choice) to touch down. Relive the somewhat underwhelming Darth Vader entrance and the much more inspiring Blu-ray boxed set trailer after the break.

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Star Wars Blu-ray discs to arrive September 27th according to Amazon originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Monstrous Grace Pro E-Bike Defies Description

The Grace Pro Race electric bike is best described by the words of those who passed along the details of this new photoset to me. Chuck Squatriglia of Wired.com’s own Autopia blog asked “What would happen if you crossed an old-school Cannondale with a modern downhill mountain bike and then made it electric?” The Cycle EXIF blog, [...]

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Spikes Tend to Kill You is an super-fast retro platformer -- Time Waster

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Spikes Tend to Kill You has got to be one of the nicest games I've played in a while. It's an old-school platformer, and it is very well made.

You're just a cube, and the graphics are retro. But the game is very fast and very responsive. Each level takes exactly one screen, and as you may have gathered from the name, touching spikes is not a good idea.

Other than avoiding spikes, you will have to avoid bullets. Those rounded protrusions you see sticking out from the walls in the screenshots are cannons, shooting out bullets at specific intervals. You can touch the cannon, but can't touch a bullet. So you need to time your movement just right, often taking into account more than just one cannon.

When you strike out, you immediately start the level again - no waiting, no limited lives. Very very addictive. Eventually you get familiar enough with a level to "choreograph" it - i.e, you know exactly when to jump, when to run, and when to wait. And then, of course, you move to the next level.

The only slight downside here is that the soundtrack is too 8-bit for me, but I guess that's a personal thing. A superb time-waster.

Spikes Tend to Kill You is an super-fast retro platformer -- Time Waster originally appeared on Download Squad on Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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iPad 2 rumor wars: 2048×1536 strikes back

TiPb iPad 2 Concept It’s getting downright silly, but Digitimes is now claiming iPad 2 will indeed have a 2048×1536 based on ” upstream component makers”. This follows: Daring Fireball saying oh-no-it-wouldn’t MacRumors finding evidence it just might Kevin Rose saying iPad 2 would be higher-res but not Retina Display Engadget confirming the same (which TiPb found problematic for compatibility reasons) and 9to5Mac pointing [...]

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How to switch windows in Windows 7 with Flip 3D

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Today we're kicking off a brand new series of tips on Download Squad. We hope to highlight little tips and tricks that you've probably never heard of, and may just revolutionize the way you use your favorite apps and tools -- from encoding video for YouTube, to remoting with VNC on your phone. Today, we begin with Windows keyboard shortcuts!

Back when Windows Vista was all the rage, it debuted a feature called Flip 3D. It's a neat window switcher that displays the currently open windows as a 3-dimensional stack of windows that you sort through, one by one. Well, it's still with us on Windows 7: Try it now by hitting Win+Tab.

Come back tomorrow for the next keyboard tip, or, if you'd like to read a whole bunch at once, check out Sebastian's epic list.

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How to switch windows in Windows 7 with Flip 3D originally appeared on Download Squad on Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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