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.
Further to yesterday's post on the 'immovable Unity launcher' I just thought I'd share this as well to help allay a few fears on an annoyance many of you have expressed issue with...
Stream music stored in your Ubuntu One cloud directly to your stereo, TV or other AirPlay connected device with the official Ubuntu One client for iPhone.
Unity will be Ubuntu 11.04's new desktop environment - but you may just see it popping up in other non-Ubuntu derived distributions too - including Fedora.
Tibesti is a 'simple screencasting' tool for Linux that allows you to record your desktop, speaker output and microphone at the same time, rendering output to the file type of your choice.
In an update to semantic launcher 'Synapse' an indicator-applet landed and, for now at least, it's not optional. So here are 3 ace mono-icons to replace it with.
The first release candidate of OpenOffice.org fork LibreOffice has been made available for download.
A release candidate for Clementine 0.6 is now available for testing and it's certainly one of the most ripened releases for a while!
Following on from the quick run-downs of Desktop Unity we've featured recently, a number of commenters have asked whether the Unity bar will be moveable - e.g. putting on the bottom like a traditional 'dock' or over to the right. The answer is no.
Banshee will be sat on millions of Ubuntu desktops next april as Ubuntu 11.04's default music player - but some users think it could do with looking a little bit more native.
With Google gearing up to launch the Chrome Web Store December 7th now is the perfect time to get a sneak preview of how webapps are going to look in Chrome.
We reported on Minitube's search for a new icon a while back and many OMG! readers submitte some fantastic designs and now the winner of that very contest has been revealed...
With World of Goo now in the Ubuntu Software Center for purchase, many gamers are thinking about other popular indie games available for Linux. One such gem is the beautiful Osmos - a rich and addictive puzzle game by Hemisphere Games - whose motto is to create games 'for both sides of the brain.