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Tag Archives: gwibber
Gwibber Gets Revamped For Ubuntu 11.10: Faster, Lighter, Prettier
Gwibber – it’s Ubuntu’s default social client, but do you use it? Chances are you don’t.
Despite have a great feature set and support for almost every major social networking sites Gwibber is tarnished with a reputation for being slow, laggy, resource hungry and a notification-nuisance.
But come Ubuntu 11.10 in October Gwibber will be a very different beast. Gwibber just got sexy.
Gwibber lens for Ubuntu Unity available; adds social awesome to the 11.04 desktop
The following lens for Gwibber, Ubuntu’s default ‘social messaging application, weaves your social networking streams through the slick visuals of Unity and making them easily accessible from the Ubuntu desktop.
New Gwibber User Guide makes mastering social networking in Ubuntu easy
Gwibber is Ubuntu’s default social networking client and boasts a powerful set of features for tweeting, denting and micro-blogging your life – but are you aware of everything that it can do?
Video: Gwibber’s new look interface ‘posting box’
Oh Gwibber – where art thou?
It feels an age since we last mentioned anything related to Gwibber but, thankfully, there’s a reason for that.
How to Auto start Gwibber & Empathy
Get Gwibber and Empathy to auto start on login.
How to get gwibber to use the Ubuntu font
If you’re on Maverick (or even if you’re not) chances are you’re in love with the Ubuntu font and as such want to use it everywhere you possibly can.
Gwibber, when using the ‘Ubuntu’ theme, sadly has ideas of its own but enabling Ubuntu-font usage is no more than a minor-hack away.
Gwibber, facebook and You
To many of us applications are like cars: you get it, turn them on and they run. The running, fine-tuning and servicing of the app/car is left to a professional – in this case developers. Developers, like mechanics, aren’t psychic and often only know there is something wrong with the running of an application when [...]
Apologies
Apologies for a little whoopsy from earlier!
The oauthcalypse arrives & Gwibber is ready
Support for basic user authentication in many desktop Twitter applications will end at 8AM Pacific time this Tuesday morning, according to Twitter. Applications which don’t switch to the microblogging service’s new ‘O Auth’ user authentication system, which is touted as being more secure as you only need to provide your password to Twitter, will all API [...]
Seif Speaks: Interviewing Mr. Gwibber (Ryan Paul)
I met Ryan Paul at UDS last may and I must say I was star struck (I am star struck most of the time at UDS anyhow). As a badass editor at arstechnica and the man who started gwibber I thought it would be nice to interview for OMG! Ubuntu!
Is Gwibber getting a new icon?
Not definite but it is indeed curious that the Gwibber twitter avatar has been replaced with this shiny new icon: – The icon isn’t that far removed from the current icon either: – It still keeps ‘the world’ idea but adds in some ‘connecting’ lines for symbolism all tied up inside inside a speech bubble. [...]
Gwibber in Lucid: Adding More Columns
Short post to help people get the most out of Gwibber as a lot of readers keep asking me “How I got a ‘multiple columns/tweetdeck style’ Gwibber?â€. 1. Default Gwibber This is how Gwibber looks by “default†in Ubuntu 10.04. To add extra panels simple hit up the ‘Gwibber’ menu and choose ‘new stream’ (see [...]
First peek at Gwibber 3.0?
I don’t fully know the story behind this screenshot – OMG! reader danyR kindly punted it my way – so all i know so far is that it appears to be recent (13th March) and appears to show a (very slick) new Gwibber UI. Also posted around the same time was a demo of auto-name [...]