I had the pleasure of chatting with Jason Gerard DeRose, the lead developer of Novacut, and asked him whether he was disappointed with the failure to meet the crowd-sourced funding target and what this means for the future of the video editor project that has gotten everyone talking.
The Ubuntu ShipIt program, which provides free Ubuntu Desktop and Server CD's to users otherwise unable to obtain releases, is now taking pre-order requests for free Ubuntu 10.10 desktop and server CD's.
Remember that pretty swish new Twitter client called ‘Hotot‘ that we mentioned recently? One rather petty complaint we had with it was the choice of colour tray icon used in the indicator-applet. Good news if […]
This is a bit atypical for OMG! Ubuntu! but this morning Bryen Yuko Yunashko, also known as suseROCKS, reported that he was robbed for many valuable gadgets during his travels in Europe. As a user […]
Add some HTC-inspired beauty to your desktop using the following WeatherClock Conky script. Heavily influenced by the HTC widget available on many smart-phones (and the Windows desktop) it informs you of both the time and […]
Search for missing album artwork directly from Rhythmbox using the following ‘AlbumArtSearch‘ plug-in. The add-on searches the web for album art/images of the currently playing song. From the resulting images, one can be set as […]
Here's your chance to ask the Novacut team your most burning questions regarding their innovative project to create a collaborative video editor. Leave your questions in the comment section before October 5th 1300 hrs UTC.
Designers Ian ‘Izo’ Cylkowski and Dan Rabbit are to document the myriad of customisation options present in the new 0.98.0 Murrine GTK Engine release. The project aims to provide ‘a comprehensive guide’ for designers and […]
A new theme for graphical GRUB replacement BURG by ~SWOriginal (increasingly one of our favourite designers) has been released. Called ‘Lightness’ the theme was designed to feel ‘calm, clean & modern’ according to its designer, and certainly gives a beautifully minimalistic introduction to your boot time.
A reader by the name of montini stopped by the OMG! Mailbox to point out something rather neat – if, to many, perfunctory. If you’re in a country where the new week starts on a […]
One of the things I love about Banshee is how easy it is for people to fix their own issues without requiring extensive knowledge. Recently our community have be joined by two new developers who both started working on their own sexy features. Read on...
The latest beta version of .deb creation assistant Ubucompilator is available for testing. The past 12 months have seen the tool mature considerably, with the 1.0 beta boasting many new additions: – A new style […]
I interrupt normal proceedings to bring you a shameless plug for one of my favourite magazines – Linux Format – and one of my favourite people – Seif Lotfy – both of whom, for this […]
The popular Faenza icon set has been ported to KDE. Whilst the KDE version still requires a bit of polishing, lacking many application and action icons, it is complete enough for daily usage and makes […]
Ubuntu design team member Otto Greenslade blogged about a set of new Ubuntu-style emoticons for use on the Canonical design blog at the weekend – and you can now use them in Pidgin.
A temporary repository for LibreOffice – the newly-announced fork of OpenOffice – has been set up for Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other Debian-based distributions to use.
Two new T Shirts for the Maverick Meerkat release of Ubuntu that comes out in just over a week have appeared in the Canonical Store.
No not that sort of galaxy but the immersive Google Earth set-up called ‘Liquid Galaxy’ which displays Google Earth in a surround view around you using eight 55-inch LCD screens. And now it’s open-source. From […]