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.

Humble Indie Bundle 3: You Set The Price For Five Awesome Games

The third instalment of the Humble Indie Bundle is now love, letting you decide what to pay for five cross-platform, DRM free games worth $50 in total. The majority of the games in the bundle are "Physics" based.

26 July 2011

Have You Taken The LibreOffice User Survey?

Both avid and casual users of Office Suite 'LibreOffice' are being asked to take part in a new survey.

26 July 2011

[How to] Enable OS X Lion-style ‘Natural Scrolling’ in Ubuntu

OS X Lion introduced natural/reverse scrolling where by "content tracks finger movement". If you've ever used a touchscreen smartphone you'll already be familiar with how this works: you drag down to scroll up; you drag up to scroll down. 'Natural Scrolling' by Charalampos brings reverse scrolling to Ubuntu.

26 July 2011
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GNOME 3: Awesome Designs for “Music” and “Documents” File Browsing

New and exciting ways of interacting with files are being explored in GNOME 3. Rather than just navigate to and 'view' your files the following designs show off features and interfaces that are helpful, modern and in keeping with the modern GNOME desktop.

25 July 2011

Indie Game ‘BEEP’ Enters Ubuntu Software Centre At $9.99

Physics-based platform game BEEP has finally been launched for sale in the Ubuntu Software Centre priced at $9.99.

24 July 2011
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Revamped Session Menu Lands in Ubuntu 11.10

An updated Session Menu containing links for various system settings has landed in Ubuntu 11.10 this weekend.

24 July 2011
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‘Glimpse’ for Linux Offers Safe Sandbox Testing of Unstable Apps

We all want the latest features and changes an app has to offer, and for many of us that means using unstable, beta or sometimes even alpha quality software. This 'bite of the beta pie' approach has drawbacks: application performance may not be ideal and you risk files being trashed by buggy new features.

22 July 2011
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Gnome Screencasts Episode 6 – How To Make a Web Browser

The sixth instalment of wannabe-developer orientated web series 'Gnome Screencasts' is now online. And this time it's a web browser in the making...

22 July 2011
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Google Music Manager Finally Launches On Linux

Google have announced the release of Google Music Manager for Linux.

22 July 2011
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Ubuntu 10.04.3 Released

The third maintenance update to Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS has been released.

21 July 2011

Ubuntu eCafe Netbook Runs on ARM, Has 13 Hours of Battery Life

So the long heralded 'flood' of ARM netbooks on to the shelves barely even materialised as a drop, with a drop in demand for netbooks and massive growth spurt in touch-screen Tablet devices seemingly diverting attention elsewhere. PC company Hercules are pinning their hopes on a 'better late than never' approach with the launch of a new ARM powered netbook series dubbed the 'eCafé'.

21 July 2011
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Robots for Humanity Powered by Open Source

A new collaborative robotics project is ripping the idea of autonomous assistance for the disabled out from the land of science-fiction and planting it firmly in the real world - and all using the power of Open Source.

20 July 2011