Posts from December 2009

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12 Days of Xmas: Day Three – CoverGloobus

Day Three of our countdown of 2009’s top applicationss leads us to an application from the same stable as yesterdays’ Gloobus Preview. Yep! Today we’re throwing tinsel and baubles over its sister application CoverGloobus! CoverGloobus […]

17 December 2009
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WillWillIbex – One of The Best Forgotten Themes For Ubuntu?

WillWillIbex was a proposed “design” for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex made by a one Will Williams back in 2008. At the time it was nothing more than a mock-up made in Photoshop but the design so […]

17 December 2009
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Record Multiple Radio Stream At the Same Time In Rhythmbox

Recording radio station streams or excerpts has been made super-easy thanks to the snappily titled ‘Record radio stations’ plug-in for Rhythmbox. Its main set of features provides: – Recording multiple stations at the same time […]

17 December 2009
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Split-View Nautilus Coming To Gnome-Shell?

Split-panel nautilus tweaks/hacks are incredibly popular but up until now the feature remained a 3rd party enablement. With the upcoming GNOME Shell raising questions as to the purpose Nautilus due to features Nautilus traditionally provided […]

16 December 2009
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12 Days Of Xmas: Best Apps of 2009 – Day Two

With 2009 drawing to a close we’re getting all retrospectical* here at OMG!Ubuntu! (*That’s not a real word, but it sounds good.) Today we present our second favourite application of 2009 – Gloobus Preview. For […]

16 December 2009
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Pino Twitter Application Reviewed

Pino is a new-ish Twitter application for Linux with the moto of being “easy and simple” and “fast.” I couldn’t get the ruddy thing to compile back when i reviewed 6 Linux Twitter applications, but […]

16 December 2009
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Docky Themes [Yes, Themes for Docky!]

The first 3rd party themes for Docky have been made and popped up on Gnome-Look by user mio6. Two themes are included in the package. These are:  Bluesmoke: – and Grey: – Download http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Themes+for+Docky?content=117108 Install […]

14 December 2009
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New Wave 0.8.2 Released

Popular GTK+ theme ‘New Wave’ saw a new release today.   Version 0.8.2 bags itself a ton of changes and improvements, including improved text colour on statusbar, tooltips, etc, and restyled frames for various applications. […]

14 December 2009
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Lucid Alpha 1 – Fewer Games, Installer Changes, Impatient Friendly

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 was released late last week and although very little cosmetically has changed, we’ve pointed out the obvious changes below. Update The Installer The Ubiquity installer comes with one notable […]

14 December 2009
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YouTube HTML5-ifer For Chrome Makes YouTube A Joy To Use

Chrome extension "YouTube-HTML5-ifier" replaces the flash-based YouTube player with a HTML5 video tag – thus giving you native video playback without the need for a CPU hungry Flash plugin! The extension can’t show any flash-reliant […]

14 December 2009
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12 Days Of Xmas: Best Apps Of 2009 – Day One

“On the first day of Xmas Gwibber gave to me, my social networks in a tree…” Tree-view, that is. Yes, Gwibber 2.0 introduced a revamped UI alongside other changes earlier this year – all designed […]

14 December 2009
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You Know You’re Getting Popular When…

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

14 December 2009