Netbook features
Features
Ubuntu Netbook is a secure, reliable way to use your netbook. It gives you instant access to all the free applications you’ll need, wherever you are.
Communicate
Ubuntu provides a great choice of apps to make communicating quick and easy. Email with Evolution and integrate your Yahoo, Gmail, MSN, Jabber, AOL and QQ accounts so you can chat, twitter and email anyone, anywhere.
Empathy IM
Evolution Mail
Gwibber Microblogging
Skype
Browse
Connect to the web using fast, safe Mozilla Firefox 3.6 – or you can download the free web browser of your choice at the Ubuntu Software Centre.
Firefox web browser
Flash
Read
Read the latest blockbuster on your netbook. FBReader supports the most popular ebook formats and allows you to build a library, search text, view images and read in full-screen mode.
FBReader
Listen
With Rhythmbox you can buy, download and store music, share your favourite tunes with friends or plug in your PSP, iPod or MP3 player. Watch videos on YouTube, listen to the radio, download podcasts or stream music through Last FM.
Rhythmbox music player
Watch
Load pictures from your camera, phone or the web to F-Spot. Use F-Spot's easy interface to manage, edit and share pictures with friends via social networking sites. And don't forget you can watch videos with Totem, or install Flash to watch YouTube.
F-Spot
Movie Player
Flash
Get free software
Ubuntu Netbook is your way into the world of free applications available via the web.
Simply visit the Ubuntu Software Centre and choose software from a range of categories including education, games, sound and vision – select the app you want and Ubuntu downloads them to your computer, ready to use – simple as that.
Featured applications from the Ubuntu Software Centre:
GIMP – Advanced image editing for graphic designers, photographers or simply for retouching your pictures.
Jokosher – Your very own home studio. Record, edit, mix and export.
Stellarium – A 3D planetarium for your computer.
Play
Choose from over 400 games to play on your netbook – they’re completely free and very easy to access.
Share
Your very own cloud, Ubuntu One, provides 2GB of free online storage so you can make your documents, music, contacts and bookmarks available from any computer.
Accessible
Computing with Ubuntu is not only free, it’s available to everyone. Ubuntu Netbook is fully translated into 23 languages, with more to come.
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