Posts from December 2011

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The Ubuntu Vodafone WebBook “Disappoints” Reviewer

The Ubuntu-powered Vodafone WebBook has been out in South Africa for a few months but little opinion on the device has appeared online. Or so I thought. Having exhausted my own avenues trying to get hold […]

30 December 2011
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So Long Productivity – YouTube Lens Puts Browser-free Searching of Videos in the Unity Dash

The fantastic folks over at Spanish blog ‘Ataraeo‘ have put together a nifty a lens for browsing YouTube’s library of videos straight from the Dash. The package, a YouTube ‘Scope’ (the search engine bit) and […]

29 December 2011
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Handy Plugin to Sync Last.FM Playcount With Rhythmbox

Sync your play counts on Last.FM to your Rhythmbox music collection. The following plugin updates Rhythmbox with a track's playcount from Last.fm. That way, regardless of where or what you scrobble your music from your playcounts in Rhythmbox will remain up-to-date.

29 December 2011

Revamped Elementary Icons Made Available for Testing

Elementary fans can now test the latest changes to the popular icon set via a 'testing PPA'. Elementary's semi-iconic icon theme set is getting a overhaul in time for the next release of their Ubuntu-based OS.

29 December 2011

Meet ‘Oxygen’ – A Font for the KDE Desktop

It seems that no Linux desktop worth its salt is complete without its own font. GNOME 3 has Canteral, Unity has 'Ubuntu', and now KDE is getting in on the typographic trend. Meet 'Oxygen'.

28 December 2011

To Our Friend Sam

Sam Spilsbury has been the lead of Compiz for as long as I’ve paid attention to it. His blog is one that I follow closely to get a bit of insight into the project. Normally […]

28 December 2011
Spotify on Linux Beta with Apps

Spotify on Linux Beta Adds Spotify Apps

As previously announced Spotify on Linux now supports free accounts but the current stable release of the Linux client does not yet offer the newer features such as Spotify Apps. Spotify recently released a beta version […]

27 December 2011
Blue Mic in Ubuntu

[How To] Set Up Blue Yeti Mic in Ubuntu

Amongst the items I asked Santa Claus for this year was a new microphone so I can improve the quality of voice-overs in our YouTube videos. The famous white-bearded one (no, not Gandalf!) kindly obliged, […]

27 December 2011
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Kazam Screenrecording App Fixed for Ubuntu 11.10

Kazam Screen recorder is a useful tool for all kinds of activities, so we were sad to hear that it had issues running in Ubuntu 11.10. Thankfully developer David 'Big Whale' Klasinc has picked the application up, dealt with its dependency issues and parked it inside a PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu 11.10.

26 December 2011
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Happy Holidays All, Thanks For The Year, We’re On A Break For A Bit!

Just a quick note! I'd like to take a moment to thank each one of you for being a fantastic bunch of readers over the past year, and wish you a good holiday break! It's been an amazing year for OMG! Ubuntu! and our little wee community is growing by so much every day. Joey and I are always blown away by the statistics, number of comments, shares, and interaction OMG! Ubuntu! has with all members of the community. We know for a fact that people from Canonical, the community, companies using Ubuntu, selling Ubuntu, and all sorts of projects are represented in the comments section and this really brings a smile to our face.

25 December 2011
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Ubuntu-integrated Cloud Music Player ‘Nuvola’ Sees New Release, Adds Lucid Support

A new stable release of 'Nuvola' music player - formerly known as Google Music Frame - is now available for download. Nuvola 1.0 adds a number of additional features and improvements to the desktop-integrated player, including support for Grooveshark, 8Track and Hypemachine.

24 December 2011
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CTL Announce Range of Ubuntu Laptops, PCs

CTL, a hitherto unheard of PC manufacturer, is launching a new range of notebooks with Ubuntu preinstalled. The hardy named, and hardy looking, CTLMB40U laptop boasts an entry level spec-setup that should suit the needs of your typical computer user:

24 December 2011