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		<title>OMG! Conky!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conky is getting some good press this week over on OMG! Ubuntu!  Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed this post showcasing a new easy-to-use Conky theme, which was designed especially for the new-look Ubuntu 10.04.  Here's what it looks like in practice:

You can download the source from gnome-look.org, in Spanish (original) or English.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.conky.be/2010/05/12/omg-conky/</link>
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		<title>The Best New Features of Conky 1.8.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back on March 30th, Conky 1.8.0 was officially released!  For those of you using Ubuntu 10.04 alpha or beta, you will already be upgraded; for anyone else, you can grab the tarball from the Conky SourceForge site.
While 1.8.0 is primarily a maintenance release, it brings with it a few new features that many users [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.conky.be/2010/04/13/the-best-new-features-of-conky-1-8-0/</link>
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		<title>Congrats to djyoung4, Winner of the February CotM!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, the votes are in and tallied, and the winner of February's Conky of the Month competition ("St. Valentine's Day/Massacre") is...drum roll please...djyoung4!  Well done to him and all the entrants this month.
The winning screenshot, "Conky on the Rose":

Details of the config may be found here (config to be uploaded shortly).
Once again, congrats to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.conky.be/2010/03/10/congrats-to-djyoung4-winner-of-the-february-cotm/</link>
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		<title>Please Vote on February&#8217;s CotM Entries!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It's time to vote on the CotM again!  We've got more entries this month, so choose carefully...As always, we are looking for:


Visual composition
Conky innovation
Adherence to theme, "St. Valentine's Day/Massacre"


Our entries this month are:

mrpeachy, with four different configs (!):

Entry #1:
Details here: [link]

Entry #2:
Details here: [link]

Entry #3:
Details here: [link]

Entry #4:
Details here: [link]



LG, with the following config:
Details [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.conky.be/2010/03/01/please-vote-on-februarys-cotm-entries/</link>
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		<title>Fancy Living on the Edge? Try Conky in Pre-Release!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you a Conky junkie?  Has it been too long since the last major release?  (I know, it's only been a few months...)  Why not consider trying the pre-release, development version of Conky?  You can get the source code of the latest release candidates at Conky's SourceForge page.  And best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.conky.be/2010/02/24/fancy-living-on-the-edge-try-conky-in-pre-release/</link>
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		<title>February&#8217;s CotM Competition: St. Valentine&#8217;s Day/Massacre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If anyone can believe it, it's February already!  You know, the month that brings us Groundhog Day (what does that silly groundhog know, anyway?), Valentine's Day and well, okay, that's about it. Oh, and it brings snow, in most places in the Northern Hemisphere.
But huzzah! February also brings with it the February Conky of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.conky.be/2010/02/03/februarys-cotm-competition-st-valentines-daymassacre/</link>
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		<title>Congratulations, wlourf, Winner of January&#8217;s CotM Competition!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month marked the first time we made the CotM (Conky of the Month) competition open to public vote, and I'm glad we did!  Conkyist wlourf won this month's contest by a resounding 21 votes to 5, with his "wheel calendar" config:

wlourf posts more information about his script here and more screenshots here, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.conky.be/2010/02/03/congratulations-wlourf-winner-of-januarys-cotm-competition/</link>
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		<title>Please VOTE on the Winner of January&#8217;s CotM Competition!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to mobilediesel and wlourf for entering January's Conky of the Month (CotM)!
This month we have a new feature: a public poll, so everyone can vote on who they think deserves to win.  Remember, we are looking for three things:

Visual composition
Conky innovation
Adherence to theme

...or maybe just which one you think is the coolest.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.conky.be/2010/01/17/please-vote-on-the-winner-of-januarys-cotm-competition/</link>
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		<title>Congratulations, dmillerct, Winner of December&#8217;s CotM Competition!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, all!
I can finally announce that the winner of December 2009's Conky of the Month competition is...
(Drum roll, please!)
...dmillerct!

dmillerct won points for his simple and effective configuration, for using the Conky Rings to create colourful pie charts, and for excellent adherence to the "Winter Holidays" theme! Honourable mention goes to arzali, who only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.conky.be/2009/12/31/congratulations-dmillerct-winner-of-decembers-cotm-competition/</link>
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		<title>The Lines are Now Closed!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, that's it!  The closing date has passed for the very first Conky of the Month competition!
Thanks to everyone who entered, and the winner will be announced shortly.
In the meantime, I am pleased to announce the theme for next month's competition: CALENDARS!  As it's a new year, I'd like to see everyone's take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.conky.be/2009/12/16/the-lines-are-now-closed/</link>
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