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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LibreOffice Ubuntu PPA makes installation easy

Want to easily try out the latest development builds of OpenOffice-fork LibreOffice? Well now you can thanks to a dedicated LibreOffice packaging PPA for Ubuntu users.

2 January 2011
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Offline Ubuntu update tool ‘Keryx’ hits 1.0 release

Offline Ubuntu update utility Keryx has been updated with UI improvements, new features and lots more.

2 January 2011
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Video: Gwibber’s new look interface ‘posting box’

Oh Gwibber - where art thou? It feels an age since we last mentioned anything related to Gwibber but, thankfully, there's a reason for that.

2 January 2011
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Bodhi Linux hits Alpha 4, gets ace new look

The Enlightenment-based Linux distro 'Bodhi Linux' hit Alpha 4 recently - so what's new? Take a look!

2 January 2011
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Official Ubuntu keyboard for sale… with a Windows key?

A new officially branded waterproof keyboard has gone on sale in the Canonical store - albeit one with what appears to be a Windows key.

2 January 2011
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New year… and we’re back

Yesterday was a barren post day due to most of us recovering from the extremes of new year partying. Sobriety now a given, it's back to work for us.

2 January 2011
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Atolm GTK+ theme: Dark, brushed and oh-so nice

Meet Atolm – the newest dark theme on the block. Atolm is the result of a collaboration between designers SkiesOfAzel and MonkeyMagico, the latter of whom created the mock that  served as the inspiration for […]

30 December 2010
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Integrate Wine in Ubuntu with ‘Vineyard’

Decent Wine integration in Ubuntu is something many of us would love to have - and we can thanks to an application called 'Vineyard'. Vineyard provides two useful features: firstly it provides a native way to configure Wine and Wine preferences and secondly it creates tight integration between Wine and the Ubuntu desktop.

29 December 2010
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Indicator-wallpaper changer anyone?

It seems there are more ways to change desktop wallpaper in Ubuntu than there are wallpapers. DesktopNova is another tray-based tool for switching between wallpapers but one which , thanks to Michael Otto, now has a shiny application indicator to control it with.

29 December 2010
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Slick, intelligent Plymouth Boot Splash

Boot screens: generally the land of the bland. But not so anymore.

29 December 2010
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‘Single window’ GIMP release delayed – but why?

GIMP 2.8, a.k.a. 'the one with single window mode', won't see release on December 26th as planned. But why? Read on to see.

29 December 2010
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Create a ‘wingpanel’ effect using the default gnome panel

Reader Vjjustin has written up an interesting little tutorial on creating a ‘wingpanel’-style panel using nothing more than the default GNOME panel.

29 December 2010