Posts from April 2010

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Lyrebird: from the ashes of songbird

Although official support of Songbird on Linux will cease a community maintained version will continue – as we mentioned on our previous post. This version now has a (likely temporary) name: Lyrebird. It’s early days […]

4 April 2010
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GNOME Shell: System status area mockups

GNOME 3 — and the Shell it brings – won’t be the big bad many fear and as work on it progresses more concepts and interface designs are coming out that will surely help abate […]

4 April 2010
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another round of ‘”Hey! I only just noticed that new icon”

A more befitting Transmission icon finally landed. It feels like i’ve been following the bug report for this for an age and then some… Also pleased to see the ‘elevated privileges’ icon get a spiffing […]

4 April 2010
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Clementine: The Ghost of Amarok 1.4 in qt4

Clementine music player is a port of Amarok 1.4 with many features rewritten in Qt4. We love trying anything new at OMG! towers so after spotting Clementine mentioned in a comment by reader Heepie in […]

4 April 2010

Pino twitter app adds indicator applet support, more

It seems that a week can’t go by without the superhuman development team behind desktop Twitter app Pino releasing yet another update. And we’re certainly not complaining! This weeks’ update sees the awesome twitter application gain a […]

4 April 2010
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Songbird drops Linux support; Why this doesn’t matter

The Songbird team have announced that they will no longer be officially supporting Linux versions of their media player. Community versions, will, however still be provided but there is no guarantee that these versions will see […]

3 April 2010

Ubuntu 10.10 Named Maverick Meerkat

Mark Shuttleworth has announced the name of Ubuntu 10.10 – And yes, in a post dated 2nd of April – ‘Maverick Meerkat’ In a post on his blog, titled ‘Shooting for the perfect 10.10 with […]

2 April 2010
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A shiny new Ubuntu installer icon

When testing out the Lucid live CD next you’ll see a brand new icon for the Ubuntu Installer rocking out on its’ lonesome. Thanks to THAC0 over in the OMG! IRC I can bring you […]

2 April 2010
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Ubuntu window buttons staying left, but will be switching order

Just a quick heads up — window controls in Ubuntu 10.04 WILL be staying on the left hand side but the button order will revert to Close, Minimize, Maximize. Mark Shuttleworth issued the final verdict […]

1 April 2010
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Enjoy your PDF images a touch smoother in Lucid

For the last couple of years, this bug has been plaguing poppler – the PDF rendering engine that drives Evince in Ubuntu. The problem was that images weren’t being anti-aliased properly, and hence looked very bad […]

1 April 2010
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Tomboy, Battery icons updated

A new tomboy icon matching the rest of the new style panel icons in Lucid has graced the Ubuntu update tubes with its presence. Also checking in is a larger battery style icon. Thanks to […]

1 April 2010
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Quickshot released, PPA and LiveCD’s available!

April 1st is a big day for the Ubuntu Manual Project, with their beta released and an announcement of a new audio book edition. The fun doesn’t stop yet as the team have just unleashed […]

1 April 2010