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.
Bored? Nothing better to do? Why not help out Manu Järvinen who mailed us a plea for help on turning his rather swish BURG theme idea into a boot loading beauty. “I am a designer […]
Everything John Connor fought against in the future is coming to pass.
Flumotion streamed the event but now the videos are finally available for download. Get the goods here since the videos currently aren’t broken down into individual talks yet it is useful to have the GUADEC […]
It’s been a good month or two since we last spoke about the all-in-one script ‘Elegant Gnome’ which takes your drab default desktop and paints it with pretty – with no hassle involved! The pack […]
Where would we be without Ubuntu Tweak? Arguably one of the most popular applications for end-users it just keeps on giving. A new backup feature will be showing up in the next stable release and […]
Rainlendar is a self-described ‘feature rich’ calendar for your desktop that allows for extensive customization, tweaking and personalization. Events can be set with an alarm for notification and the to-do list makes a handy extra. Rainlendar is […]
We’re big fans of the AppImage project – the distro-agnostic application packaging method that allows applications to run on any distribution with no installation required – so we’re thrilled to learn that ‘App Thumbnailer’ – […]
Back in early July we featured ‘Alawalk’ – a lightweight launcher for the resource conscious. It was lean, mean and did its job. If you liked Alawalk but found the 72KiB RAm usage a bit […]
The latest version of open-source flash player ‘Gnash’ boasts that ‘100% of all YouTube videos’ should now work using it. Gnash can be run as a standalone application or as a plugin for most popular […]
Since this is my first time writing for OMG! Ubuntu! I figured I would start by sharing a little something that excites me. Namely this mockup Mike Beecham presented in the #banshee IRC channel. Personally […]
A few weeks back we featured an official promotional advert for Ubuntu that barely anyone had ever seen which totally rocked. Today we’re back with another, courtesy of the very ace John Bernard in Canonical’s marketing […]
I’m not sure if the association between the colour purple and and luxury is a solely British thing but either way most readers will find that this wallpaper has an utterly delectable feel to it.I almost want to rub […]