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.
The default wallpaper of Lubuntu 12.04, the next major release of the lightweight Ubuntu-based OS currently in development, has received a new year revamp. After upgrading the 'lubuntu artwork' package users will find their default desktop drape changed to cool blue wallpaper with the greeting 'the lubuntu team wishes you a happy new year 2012' sat amongst a cloud of Lubuntu developers names.
The Kazam Screen-recording tool is currently undergoing a through refit - and adding some awesome new features along the way.
The Ubuntu-powered Vodafone Webbook has been out in South Africa for a few months, but little in the way of opinion on the device has appeared online. —Or so I thought. Having exhausted my own avenues […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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'.
I asked Santa Claus for a new microphone so I can improve the quality of voice-overs in OMG! Ubuntu YouTube videos. And whaddya know: the famous white-bearded one (no, not Gandalf!) kindly obliged, stuffing a […]
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.
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.
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:
Like the classic hit song constantly remade to stay modern, fans of the traditional GNOME desktop are keen to keep their preferred desktop layout fresh and available to new audiences. And so was born the Cinnamon desktop session.
A large portion of you reading this post will be doing so in the Linux RSS reader app 'Liferea'. The good news for you folks, as well as anyone else looking to read their RSS feeds through a desktop client, is that a new version of the application was recently released.
We've blogged about it endlessly of late - but now Ubuntu 11.10 users can finally try it out for themselves. What am I jabbering about? Empathy with Microsoft's newly-implemented MSN XMPP support...
A new version of Ubuntu tweak - the popular third party app for customising Ubuntu - is available for download. Ubuntu Tweak 0.6, which has been 2 years in the making, sports a new look and plenty of new features.
With the browser market dominated by Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer you could be forgiven for thinking that small browsers have little to offer. But Qupzilla, a multi-platform Qt-based web-browser, is worth taking for a spin. It boasts features comparable to Chrome and Firefox, yet uses less resources than either.
Mounting your Galaxy Nexus phone in Ubuntu has just gotten a whole lot easier. The following script adds a Unity applet with quicklist options for mounting and un-mounting the device safely - no terminal commands necessary.
Ubuntu users envious of Chinese Linux distro’s slickly-styled ‘Software Centre’ won’t nee to be green-eyed for too long: it’s coming to Ubuntu. Aenon Sun, an employee of the company who support the Ubuntu-based distro, left […]