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World of Goo is a seriously cute physics based puzzle indy-game, and right now you can download it for any price you choose. They’re celebrating the game’s first birthday, and after getting 57,000 downloads in their week-long celebration they’ve decided to extend their philanthropy until Sunday 25th October.

It’s a great game, and well worth whatever pennies you’ve got rolling around in your Paypal account. Try and cough up more than US$0.30 though, as any less than that the developers don’t get anything after Paypal takes their cut. It’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Mmm, donut...

I received the latest Android update over the air a couple of nights ago. Codenamed Donut, Android 1.6 isn’t a huge change, but i’m pretty impressed. On my HTC Magic, the main highlights are:

• It’s noticeably faster. No more lag in animations like when switching between  browser windows. I’d been led to believe Donut would be a little clunky, but my experience has been the total opposite.
• Search is now awesome. It now searches all the phone’s contents (contacts, notes, etc) as well as the web. This is a Google phone though, so search should be this good.
• The revamped Android Market is nice.

But that’s about it as far as I can tell. A couple of apps are slightly broken for now (including Google’s own Voice Search, wtf?) but i’m assuming they’ll be fixed in updates shortly. (All fixed now!)

Ubuntu 9.10, codenamed Karmic Koala, is due for release 29th October.

In the meantime you can grab the beta and help with squashing bugs.

Karmic is a pretty cool release, hot on the feature list is:

• Slick new splash screens at startup and shutdown.
• Even more boot speed impovements than Jaunty
• New netbook remix interface
• Super-fast ext4 filesystem by default
• Empathy IM client replaces Pidgin
• First look at the new Ubuntu Software Centre that will eventually replace Add/remove, Synaptic, Update Manager, and allow you to buy commercial software through the package manager. Games anyone?
• Ubuntu One included by default
• New bootloader: Grub2
• A ton of stuff under the hood, like the new version of Gnome, HAL deprecation, and initial support for the Desktop Couch database.