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.
Flickr fans may be pleased to hear that cutely named 'Frogr' Flickr uploading tool has hit version 0.3
With Christmas almost over there isn't long left in which blasting out your favourite seasonal songs won't seem weird. To help balm the blow here are two slick themes for desktop 'coverart n' controller' CoverGloobus.
Shotwell 0.8 has been released with some fantastic new features for users.
The first release candidate of KDE software compilation 4.6 has been made available for download.
‘The Source’ (formerly known as Radio Shack) has hit on a unique way of selling Toshiba laptops that run Windows 7: show them with Ubuntu! A recent promotional flyer put pout by the Canadian branch […]
Flynn would totally use this 'Tron: Legacy: inspired Docky theme by our favourite deviant Docky theme maker half-left.
Mozilla has pushed out another beta of Firefox 4 – this time one with over 1,000 bug fixes.
It’s here, racing fans – a brand new version of iconic Linux game ‘SuperTuxKart’ is now available for download.
Elephants and readers with a good memory may remember an 'ambient boot splash' proposal we featured at the end of October.
So you have one photo you want to upload to Facebook but Shotwell seems over-kill and opening a browser seems too much effort. Well, take the hassle out of posting images to your Facebook profile with this nifty Nautilus Facebook uploader script.
A new development release of soon-to-be Ubuntu's default music player Banshee was released a few days back, bringing with it subtitle support and improvements to the podcast view as well as a tonne of bugfixes. Read on for more information.
The Ubuntu font family has been added to the Google Font Directory, allowing web developers the world over to use the font on their site.
No-one goes out of their way to lose their laptop let alone have it stolen. Usually in these situations there is a slim chance of getting you laptop back - providing it has your address scrawled on the back like a label in the back of a 5th graders’ coat. Common sense dictates to be prepared and you can be by installing free and open-source security application ‘Prey - which has just been updated to version 0.5.
The Banshee Train is well on its way along the tracks, headed towards Ubuntu's default train station as a final destination and resting place - where it will hopefully stay as the default music player for some time. While it's not default yet, it's certainly going to happen soon - all you need to know to be prepared is in this article.
So you don't want a DropBox and you're not one for Ubuntu One - but you do want to make a folder full of pictures, music or other oddities available to friends on the other side of the world. Using the following python script, created by gnome-look user hardball, you can do just that: share any folder via 'http on port 8000'. You can even share folders 'mounted by gvfs' - such as remote windows folders.
With Ubuntu 11.04 dropping the traditional GNOME panel many user-favourite panel applets will be going the way of the proverbial dodo. Not so the CPU Frequency switching applet which has had an indicator make-over by Артём Попов.
Everyone loves lightweight music players. Well, maybe they don't. But here are 5 worth checking out.
Dual-screen Ubuntu-based tablet ‘Kno‘ has brought its launch date forward to December this year, according to the PCWorld. Not in the know on the Kno? read on in to find out more.