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.
I take a pre-beta play with Ubuntu Tweak 0.6
"The folks at Kogan are pretty good when it comes to Linux" said reader Paul when tipping us off to Australian (and UK) technogloy outfit 'Kogans' latest laptop. Available for ordering, but not shipping until late May, the new 'Agora Pro' ultra-portable comes with the latest and greatest version of Ubuntu so far - Ubuntu 11.04 - but is it a fitting shell for an operating system so, well, natty? Kind of.
It was billed as the "social browser" but it never found enough friends; 'Flock' web-browser will be formally discontinued on April 26th this year, an announcement on the company's website reads.
Sentinella might sound like name of a posh fragrance but the small app has been designed to keep your OS feeling fresh rather than yourself smelling such. It does this by monitoring your system resources for a pre-set 'condition', and then launching a specified action when this condition is met.
Would you love to see Minecraft for sale in the Ubuntu Software Centre? One plucky Minecraft fan has gone right ahead and suggested that to the developers behind the game, and you can add your voice too.
Where Chromium leads, Chrome surely follows... Following yesterday's news of Chromium Daily adding experimental support for Ubuntu's new Global Menu, Google Chrome Unstable - which is based upon Chromium - has also been updated with support for it.
YouTuber briantwill has taken a rather long and thorough look at the design of Ubuntu 11.04's Unity in the following 26 minute long video. The length of the video may put you off, but whether you're an avid critic or gallant fan of Unity the chances are you'll find a lot to agree with in what briantwill has to say. And he looks at it all - from the Dash to the Launcher, to Global Menu and the Panel. Video after the jump.
With its version number jumping up almost as fast as a kid on a bouncy castle, Yorba have announced a new release of digital photo manager Shotwell.
The latest Daily Builds of open-source browser Chromium have added in experimental support for Ubuntu 11.04's new Global Menu via the about:flags staging area.
The Unity Launcher is nifty for many reasons - the way it hides, the way you can drag file types on to the launcher to open up in an appropriate app, etc. The following 'app' by reader Vincent makes it niftier still by adding a 'drag and drop' Imageshack uploader to your launcher line-up...
Ubuntu 11.04 will rock, not least so by automatically downloading your Epson printer driver upon connection of an Epson printer to your computer.
The Humble Bundle is back, once again letting you set your own price for a set of five DRM-free games.
The days might be clicking closer to April 28th but the number of bug fixes and visual tweaks continue to come apace.
Add some style to your desktop with the Equinox Evolution suite of themes by Faenza creator tiheum.
The way in which the Unity Launcher is accessed by users is changing to make it more 'intuitive' to new users.
I'm a sucker for detail. In yesterdays update to Ubuntu 11.04's Unity interface the Grid plugin (read 'aero snap') for Compiz added some animated 'effects' when being invoked. Read on to see them in action and why I think they're more than just simple 'bling'...
Ubuntu 11.04's neat 'Test Drive' feature - which allows you to try applications without installing them - just got a whole lot better. Earlier today Stéphane Graber has announced that the service now allows for test-driving of almost every application and utility that is installable via the Ubuntu Software Centre. That's over 1300 different applications!
A new release of semantic file and application search tool 'Synapse' has been made available for download. Although similar in function to other launchers, such as GNOME Do or Launchy, the vala-written Synapse is lightweight in resource use and fast in presenting a variety of results thanks to tight Zeitgeist integration.