Joey Sneddon is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of OMG! Ubuntu. Since 2009, he has reported on Ubuntu and the wider open-source and Linux ecosystem, covering every major Ubuntu release since 9.04 to the present. With 16 years of hands-on experience reporting on Ubuntu and Linux, his coverage has been cited by leading technology news sites including Ars Technica, Engadget and Forbes.
A beta build of Ubuntu One for OS X has been released by the Ubuntu One team. The team say that the client will 'give all users regardless of platform, access to all the great benefits of Ubuntu One." Its' release means that all three major desktop OSes are now able to use Ubuntu One.
StormCloud is a new weather app for Linux - although soon to arrive on Chrome and Android - created by Lightread's Jono Cooper who was fed up of seeing 'so many beautiful apps on Dribbble that didn't get made'.
Is an EU law on data protection being broken in Ubuntu 12.10? That's the charge being put forward by blogger Luís de Sousa, who has spent the best part of 10 years working with state institutions where, he says, 'issues with private data are recurrent.' Sousa claims to have found several articles of an 1995 EU Directive on the protection of users personal data that Ubuntu's controversial new 'Shopping Lens' conflicts with
Canonical have today launched a new 'contributions' page through which users can donate money to the Ubuntu project. Canonical say that the initiative will help people '..choose to financially support different aspects of Canonical's work, from gaming and app, desktop, phone and tablet, to co-ordination of upstreams or supporting Ubuntu flavours."
There are many ways to spice up the traditional screencast, the most popular of which is to display a small rectangular window of yourself via your webcam, as you narrate. This method is not everyone's cup of tea, but it does add personality to otherwise perfunctory medium.
Would you like to browse the web inside the Unity Dash? Or navigate Google Maps? Both are now possible in Joseph Mills', a prolific Unity hacker, hacked version of Unity 2D.
New Ubuntu merchandise has gone on sale in the Canonical Store ahead of October's release of Ubuntu 12.10. Two new t-shirt designs and two new hats are on offer.
Oficial discs for Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop and Server editions have gone on pre-sale in the Canonical Store. As Ubuntu 12.10 marks the first release of Ubuntu to not fit on a standard CD-size the desktop edition is provided on DVD media.
Unity 6.8.0 landed in Ubuntu 12.10 this morning - but what's changed? Largely a bug fix release, 6.8.0 addresses numerous performance and visual glitches experienced by beta testers over the last few months.
Months seem to whizz by faster than Quantal's new app install animation, so we're once again here to run down the top 10 most sold apps through the Ubuntu Software Center during September 2012.
A 'Kill Switch' to disable online results Ubuntu's Dash is ready to land in Ubuntu 12.10.
Take one Ubuntu Community team, sit them in front of webcams and make them work for 24 hours solid. Sound good? that's what happening today as part of the 'Ubuntu Community Charity Marathon'.
Want to help make Ubuntu better and get paid to do so? Nope, you don't need to apply for a job at Canonical just be a regular user who can spare 2 hours for one evening next week to take part in some testing.
Ubuntu 12.10 has updated its Messaging Menu icons once again. Five revamped 'pips' - small icons that appear on the panel 'envelope' icon - have been added.
A new development release of new desktop e-mail app Geary has been released. Geary works with most popular webmail services, including GMail and Yahoo, as well as providing IMAP support.
An unfortunate "side effect" of Ubuntu's new 'shopping suggestions' feature is that, regardless of what you're looking for, be it local or online, you're going to be met with a barrage of results. This filterless 'show whatever from where-ever' approach has raised the eyebrows of some early testers...
Steam's arrival on Linux isn't a secret - and even when it was it was a poorly kept one. The company have been internally testing the Linux client for a while, and recently announced that an 'external' beta Linux users would be coming out 'sometime in October'. No specific date was given. But, today, a request from Valve's "bryceh" to Ubuntu developers has offered up a more definite time-frame - one that's happening this week.
OpenShot video editor has premiered its 1.4.3 release - which debuts a number of new features.