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It’s August the 1st already! Geesh… time flies when you’re busy blogging! Here are the 10 most read posts here on OMG! last month. The best advert for Ubuntu you’ve probably never seen… OMG! Ubuntu! – Your one stop shop for Ubuntu customization BURG bootlader themeing just got seriously simple Daily 5: Five Linux equivalents [...]

A new mockup of Gnome Shell shown off at GUADEC this week gives us a hint as to what the it may look like further down the track. While it’s a distinct improvement on what is currently available, I can’t help but think they’re taking a lot of inspiration from Unity and Jolicloud - but by [...]

After a couple of months and many, many delays, The Ubuntu Manual Team has released Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 in some more languages, Greek and German. The setbacks in translated editions being released was something we wanted to avoid, but unfortunately translation takes time and editing takes just as long, if not longer, to [...]

We’ve opened up an OMG! Merchandise Store where you can purchase exciting designs printed on everything from clocks to t-shirts and help support us at the same time. We don’t get any money for running this site (it’s practically d0od’s full time job) as well as OMG! SuSE! and the new sites we are planning [...]

I’m sure we’ve all asked dumb questions on IRC when we started using Ubuntu – and I’m sure those that hang out in IRC support channels like #ubuntu are all too familiar with said questions. Luckily for all you Ubuntu n00bs out there who are keen to get in on some of that juicy IRC [...]

The Ubuntu Developer Week is back and at it again for another fun-filled, action-packed week of learning and education on how you can contribute to Ubuntu and become an exciting developer. Developers are in shortage all around the world, and working on Ubuntu projects is all good experience for  future jobs – employers especially like [...]

In an article I wrote a few weeks ago, I talked about how the little things count when it comes to product quality. Unfortunately, not all developers have enough time or knowledge to add that extra shine and make their application more user friendly. Enter the One Hundred Papercuts Project. It’s that time of the release [...]

No, The Ubuntu Manual Project is indeed not dead. We’ve just been quieter than usual recently due to a number of things, mainly because our core contributors have been tied up with University exams taking place, getting real life jobs and generally having a lot of work to do behind the scenes. Some things have [...]

Seif Lotfy from Zeitgeist and Elementary fame has been working on a new file searcher/browser called “Sezen” that provides contextualized results based on time and file type. Sezen makes use of Tracker and Zeitgeist to give informative results, but is not meant as a replacement to Nautilus as it doesn’t support file management like copying, deleting [...]

There are some awesome screenshots of desktops in the OMG! Ubuntu! Facebook group so I thought it would be cool to post ten of the coolest ones here for you guys to admire, ask questions about and be inspired to bring life into your own desktop! So here goes, 10 awesome reader desktops from our Facebook [...]

Our favourite alternative to the main Ubuntu menu applet has received an update today which makes it easier to configure settings and also includes a new plugin to perform Google searches right from your desktop! The new preferences window can be accessed by right clicking on Cardapio and choosing “Properties.” You can specify a new logo, change [...]

We’ve probably all seen, at some point, varying different productivity wallpapers. Well OMG reader Osvaldo decided that he wanted the default 10.04 wallpaper with some nice looking organizational helps, so he made up this great looking wallpaper: This is a great looking wallpaper that fits in smoothly with the default look, but adding that productive [...]

A GNOME panel applet to search the internet and local files, that sits in your panel like the one in Unity would be awesome, but I can’t find one for the life of me. I’ve been looking for one for ages after I first saw Unity during Mark’s keynote at UDS. There are investment applets, [...]

We’ve featured a lot of wallpapers recently – but they’ve all been quite striking, colourful or, in the words of my mother ‘”fancy”. http://www.minimalwall.com features backgrounds that are far removed from that and, as such, might interest those who want something more simple, minimal and less visually abrasive for their desktop. MinimalWall features truly minimal [...]