All articles by Joey Sneddon

Joey Sneddon is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of OMG! Ubuntu. Since 2009, he has reported on Ubuntu and the wider open-source ecosystem, documenting every major Ubuntu release since 9.04 to the present. With over 16 years of hands-on experience in Linux desktops, distros and apps, Joey's insights and reporting have been cited by leading technology outlets including Ars Technica, The Verge, Engadget and Forbes.

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14 New Wallpapers Land in Ubuntu 11.10 [Download]

The community wallpapers chosen as part of Ubuntu 11.10 community wallpaper contest have 'landed' in Ubuntu 11.10.

30 September 2011
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Emesene 2.11.9 Adds In-App Theme, Plugin Downloads

A new version of MSN-dedicated chat client Emesene has been released.  Updated to version 2.11.9, Emesene sees a handful of new features and improvements, including: – In-app downloading of additional plugins and themes Improved Plus! color parser Improved […]

30 September 2011
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Ubuntu Font Family Update Adds Monospace Variant

A new release of the Ubuntu Font Family is available, and it comes with two new font styles: a monospaced variant, and a tight Condensed variant.

29 September 2011
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Ubuntu One Sync App Released for Windows

The official Ubuntu One desktop client for Windows has been has released. Ubuntu One is the cloud-storage service from Canonical and installed by default in Ubuntu. All users are entitled to 5GB of free space, with additional […]

29 September 2011
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Unity Music Lens Adds Ubuntu One Music Store Searching

A recent update to the Music lens in Unity has added 'scope' for searching the Ubuntu One Music Store.

28 September 2011
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PiTiVi Video Editor Update Adds New Features, Changes

The folks behind user-friendly Linux video editor PiTiVi have announced the release of version 0.15, which adds faster start-up time, new transformation features and support for saving project presets.

28 September 2011
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LibreOffice Hits First Anniversary, Boasts 15 million Linux Users

It's hard to believe but today marks the first anniversary of The Document Foundation and the beta release of their OpenOffice-fork LibreOffice.

28 September 2011

Humble Indie Bundle Returns, Brings Linux Debut of ‘Frozen Synapse’

The Humble Bundle is back once again, this time letting you choose your own price for indie game 'Frozen Synapse'.

28 September 2011
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MeeGo Put To Rest; Linux-based Tizen Born

MeeGo - the Intel backed Linux OS that, well, no-one ever really used - has finally been put to rest. Ish.

28 September 2011

GNOME Pie Is A Slick App Launcher for Linux Desktops

Launching applications in Ubuntu isn't exactly difficult. And with plenty of third party applications - such as Launchy, Synapse and Do - the relatively new launcher GNOME Pie has a lot of competition. Read on in for video review, screenshots and the oh-so-desired installation instructions.

28 September 2011
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Firefox 7 Released

The latest stable release of Firefox 7 has been pushed out to the masses.

27 September 2011

[How To] Create An App Launcher for Wunderlist in Ubuntu

Last week saw the first Linux release of 'To Do' application Wunderlist. Whilst the release was more than welcomed by Linux users, the inability to install it - and then access it - as simply as a typical Ubuntu package put many potential users off. The following how-to aims to rectify that by making Wunderlist easily searchable and launchable via the Unity Dash.

27 September 2011