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.
DesktopRSS app Lightread now supports two of the most popular 'read it later' services: 'Pocket' and 'Instapaper'. Both services, which claim to have some 5.5 million users between them, boast Kindle, Android, iOS and web apps that give its users on-the-go access to their stashed stories.
Desperate to try Google Drive on Ubuntu? Insync is here to help.
Richard M Stallman - one of the founding fathers of the Free Software movement - has expressed anxiety over games company Valve's plan to bring their gaming wares to Linux. The bone of contention in Stallman's eyes is Valve's frequent use of Digital Rights Management (DRM) within its software. Rights-encumbered software is, Stallman writes on his blog, 'unethical'.
A new desktop application for browsing, commenting, and reading social news site Reddit is in development - and it's coming to Ubuntu. Reditr, which will be see its first alpha release at some point in the coming weeks, takes a 'Tweetdeck' style approach in presenting content from the site. Jump on in to see screenshots, video of the app in action, and further information.
Is Nautilus being steered in the right direction, one with simplicity and a focus on core features as its destination? Or are GNOME developers driving the trusty file manager off the edge of a cliff with uncessary changes and feature removals? Share your opinion on our poll.
Copenhagen, Denmark is to play host to the next Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) later this year. The bi-annual event sees Ubuntu developers from around the world get together to hammer out the details for the next release of Ubuntu.
Skype have been dutifully updating their Linux client over the last few months but, until today, Ubuntu users had to manually download and install the latest package from Skype's website. But now a new upstream release of Skype - though not the most recent - has been added to the Ubuntu Software Center.
Earlier this week we filled you in on Michael Tunnell's work at bringing Wunderlist back to the Ubuntu desktop - and making it even better in the process. In that post we mentioned that you would need to add the 'Fogger Apps' PPA to Ubuntu in order to install it. Skip forward a few days: now you don't!
It integrates web-based music players with the Ubuntu desktop and in its next release Nuvola music player is set to get even better. From new extensions and music services, to nifty features that make using it more enjoyable, here are our pick of the top 5 new features currently available to try in the most recent beta release.
Firefox 15 landed in Ubuntu 12.10 yesterday. brining with it a new native PDF viewer. PDF.js, to give the plugin its official name, lets you read PDF files - either online or local - inside your browser using nothing more than standard web technologies.
The third alpha release in the Ubuntu 12.10 development cycle has been made available for download. Various user-visible changes are present, including a new Session Menu, refined Software Updater and 3rd party driver installer.
Do you think Microsoft's bet on Windows 8 will pay off? Valve's Gabe Newell doesn't - even going as far as to call the OS a 'catastrophe for everyone in the PC space'. Newell - a former Microsoft employee - shared his thoughts on the controversial OS as part of a question on gaming on Linux.
A third-party developer has taken the code for Ubuntu TV and added some changes of his own. The results are pretty stunning.
The latest stable release of VLC is on its way to the Ubuntu Software Center, meaning you won't need to add unstable PPAs to be up-to-date. But before the 'stable release update' arrives, Ubuntu developer Benjamin Drung would like some plucky readers with the Precise-Proposed Repository enabled to test it.
A new radio lens has been added to the Ubuntu Software Center in Ubuntu 12.10. Station listings are fetched from the radio.de group of websites thus making over 7,000 radio channels accessible from the lens.
Pointless? Maybe. Cute? Definitely.
When it comes to Twitter applications for Linux it's fair to say that we are spoilt for choice. There's Ubuntu's default app Gwibber; the webkit loving Hotot; Choqok or Qwit if KDE is your sort of thing; the unstable but awesome Polly... The list goes on. So does gFeedline, a relatively new Twitter app for Linux, bring anything new to the table?
Wunderlist is back on Ubuntu thanks to Fogger.