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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End of the line for Flock social browser

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.

13 April 2011
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Sentinella: automatically launch actions based on system activity

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.

13 April 2011
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Want to see Minecraft in the Ubuntu Software Centre? Let the devs know

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.

13 April 2011
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Google Chrome Unstable adds Global Menu support

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.

13 April 2011
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In-depth Unity Design Review [Video]

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.

13 April 2011
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Shotwell 0.9.2 Released; brings fixes for photo publishing

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.

13 April 2011
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Ubuntu Global Menu Support comes to Chromium

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.

12 April 2011
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Drag and Drop Imageshack uploader for Ubuntu’s Unity Launcher

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...

12 April 2011
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Ubuntu 11.04 gets automatic Epson printer driver download

Ubuntu 11.04 will rock, not least so by automatically downloading your Epson printer driver upon connection of an Epson printer to your computer.

12 April 2011
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Humble ‘frozenbyte’ bundle announced; buy 5 games for any price you want

The Humble Bundle is back, once again letting you set your own price for a set of five DRM-free games.

12 April 2011
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Natty update jamboree: theme and icon tweaks, new launcher behaviour

The days might be clicking closer to April 28th but the number of bug fixes and visual tweaks continue to come apace.

11 April 2011

Equinox Evolution: Beautiful Day Themed GTK Themes

Add some style to your desktop with the Equinox Evolution suite of themes by Faenza creator tiheum.

11 April 2011