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Daily Archives: September 1, 2010
OMG! we have a new site!
No doubt you’ll notice something different round these parts. That’s right, after two months of design and development, we have unleashed the new face of OMG! Ubuntu!
So what’s new?
Make the jump to find out.
OMG! 5! – Five ways to make Wine apps feel native in Ubuntu
Applications running in Wine more often than not look like second-class citizens. That’s no way to experience your OS – we’re put together five tips for getting Wine applications looking, feeling & behaving like everything else on your desktop.
In this OMG! 5! we take a look at five ways to improve the look and feel of Wine in Ubuntu.
Inkscape 0.48 released – new airbrush tool, greatly improved text tool & multipath editing
Scalable Vector Graphic fans of the world rejoice – Open Source’s premier vector drawing application Inkscape has been bumped up to 0.48, adding lots of fixes and features for artists to get excited about in the process.
Gorgeous Elementary Firefox skin is coming soon
Elementary fans longing for a Firefox theme to match do not have much long to wait.
The skin is the work of a Thomas ‘Seahorse Pip’ and looks every bit as sumptuous as you’d expect.
Choqok 1.0 Beta 3 released – adds OAuth support
KDE twitter client Choqok has rolled out a new beta release with timely OAuth support to ensure Choqok users are able to continue using Twitter – which switches off API requests for non-OAuth applications today.
Feature list after the jump.
C’mon Mozilla, show me my Firefox icon!
Firefox – why won’t you adhere to my icon theme!?
Small issues sometime grate the most and the following bug falls squarely into that category…
Click through for the rest of the rant.
Ubuntu 10.10 Opera 10.70 skins – Opera has never felt this native!
We’ve mentioned Kyle Baker’s superb Opera themes before so, and in light of sad news yesterday that PPC support for Opera will be discontinued, it’s nice to see said skins have been updated for the new & improved default themes in Ubuntu 10.10.
Unity adds improved launcher, dash icons
Ubuntu 10.10′s Unity interface has gained some new icons in an update tonight.
Three new launcher icons – for applications, places and trash respectively – are joined by category icons in the dash over-view.
Hit up the break to see screenshots in all their glory.