PopTray Minus is a notification area application for checking and notifying of new mail in your web account(s). A Linux port of the Windows application of the same name, the application is surprisingly feature-filled with […]
Yahoo! will replace Google as the new default search engine in Mozilla Firefox on Ubuntu 10.04 ‘Lucid Lynx’, Canonical has announced. Canonical’s Rick Spencer, a member of the desktop team, shared news of the change on […]
The Canonical design team are looking for volunteers in the London (UK) area to participate in user testing. Testing will take place on Friday 29th January, during the day, and will extend all through the […]
Banshee 1.5.3 will be released this coming Wednesday and will see a number of new features introduced, some of which users have longed for! New Features Here’s an exclusive OMG! run-down of what you can […]
The gorgeous Nautilus-Elementary (see previous post on how to install it here) seems to be taking some cues from other file-managers. Look what’s found it’s way into the main Nautilus window: – A zoom slider… […]
Clutterflow 0.3.5 – a cover flow style plugin for banshee – released a revised Alpha version of their awesome add-on late last week. Quite a few significant changes have landed since we last blogged about […]
Screen-tearing is an issue for many Nvidia users on Ubuntu. Videos are plauaged by a visible ‘tear’ mid way through the screen during any moments of intense action or horizontal panning. Gamers find anything that […]
OMG! Ubuntu! is taking part in this weeks ‘Blackout‘ campaign in protest at Australia’s proposed Internet Censorship bill. The Internet is one of the most valuable, innovative and sacred tools available today. It has changed […]
The Ubuntu Software Centre gained star-ratings and reviews for application selections in a recent update to the current development release, Ubuntu 10.04. Well, sorta. I’ll explain. Although you can see the star ratings and number […]
The second Alpha of Lubuntu 10.04 has slipped out for testing. The main differences from Lubuntu Alpha 1 are minimal, so for a better insight in to Lubuntu I’d recommend referring to our ‘Lubuntu Alpha […]
LXDM, the “login manager” to be used in Lubuntu 10.04, is now fully themeable. The default LXDM theme, ported from the ‘Industrial’ GTK theme This bodes well for Lubuntu 10.04, its potential users and the […]
The Ubuntu Manual Project has stirred up veritable carnival of publicity over the last few months, signifying a huge appetite for such a document within the community. I decided to find out more on the […]