More posts about “maverick”

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Giant Meerkat created out of straw

Staff at Snugburys Ice Cream Farm in Hurleston have recently finished work on a 36 ft tall Meerkat made out of steel and hay! While it doesn’t appear to have anything to do with Ubuntu, […]

25 July 2010
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Meerkat will make sharing your fave tracks easy

Ubuntu 10.10 will make sharing your favourite tracks with all your friends and online buddies a breeze. The Ubuntu One Music Store in the Maverick Meerkat introduces a new ‘link share’ button to Rhythmbox. When […]

22 July 2010
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meerkat’s new clock applet adds Calendar widget

Ubuntu 10.10’s new indicator-style clock applet is coming along nicely and, in an update today, added a new calendar widget in the menu. The new DateTime indicator applet will help make users lives easier and their […]

22 July 2010

New Ubuntu Software Center mock-up: All box, no content?

We’re big fans of the Ubuntu Software Centre and avidly follow its continued visual evolution. When a reader dropped by the OMG! Inbox to tip us off to ‘the most awesome software centre mock-ups you […]

21 July 2010
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Worried about the meerkat Sound Menu? todays update screams ‘don’t be!’

I know that many readers have had concerns over the direction that Ubuntu 10.10’s new sound menu has been taking and it would be fair to say that a significant section of those were centred […]

16 July 2010
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Meerkat Software Centre starts getting organized

Short sharp update: As the Software Centre continues to improve during the Maverick development cycle you can count on us to make a song and dance about every trivial update. Thing is, I don’t consider […]

16 July 2010
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The Ubuntu One Control Panel: Beauty in simplicity

Signing up for and managing your Ubuntu One account could be about to get a whole world easier in later releases of Ubuntu with the introduction of a new desktop-based Ubuntu One Control Panel from […]

13 July 2010
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One users ideal Ubuntu 10.10 Sound Menu mocked-up

Earlier this week Ubuntu’s Community Super-dude Jono Bacon blogged his delight at the ongoing-progress of Ubuntu 10.10’s spiffy new Sound Menu. We, too, here at OMG! towers, have been going a bit gaga over its […]

13 July 2010
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Ubuntu 10.10 sound menu continues maturing

Ubuntu 10.10’s new Unified sound menu is continuing to mature nicely in the latest updates to the Alpha OS. Early adopters may have already noticed the update but for those waiting for a bit longer […]

9 July 2010
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Just what Will be for sale in the Ubuntu software centre Come October?

The framework for supporting paid applications in the Ubuntu Software Centre will almost certainly be in place for Ubuntu 10.10  – but what could users expect to see on sale? Single-purpose Apps With the advent […]

8 July 2010
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Your Meerkat Needs You! Help Hunt down geeky app descriptions in the software centre

When installing new applications using the Ubuntu Software Centre how many times have you actually read the software description beforehand? Did it make sense, tell you what you needed to know or was it a […]

6 July 2010
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Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 2 Released

The second Alpha of the Ubuntu 10.10 development cycle has been made available for download today. The changes it contains are not considered stable and as such this Alpha is not recommended for installation on […]

1 July 2010