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.
The latest version of photo manager Shotwell has developed into something pretty with plenty of new features and enhancements, including: – Migration support for F-Spot users: Shotwell can now import photos directly from F-Spot, including […]
“When you’re using Linux with the GNOME UI, don’t you hate it when you have to go into the terminal or add the force quit button to the panel just so you can exit an […]
The latest development version of Wine 1.3.x has been released. Wine 1.3.1 sees everyone’s favourite none-an-emulator add: – Support for drag & drop between X11 and OLE. Support for favorites in builtin Internet Explorer. Beginnings of a […]
Ubuntu One gets a revamp for the Kubuntu desktop thanks to Harald Sitter’s Google Summer of Code project. We briefly mentioned the proposal to mash Ubuntu One awesomeness with KDE tech back in April when […]
It’s raining where I am but the sun is most certainly shining in my head: Gtalk users on Linux can finally use both voice and video chat. Adding such support has been Google’s top video […]
The first public release of GNOME’s new ‘SeedKit‘ library and viewer has been released. Seedkit allows developers to build and integrate web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript into their applications, creating entirely native, […]
Ddorda of the UbuntuAds project hit me up with a link to their latest promotional creation for Ubuntu 10.10. At a mere 39 seconds long the video shows off the new Unity netbook interface in […]
Canonicals’ Neil Jagdish Patel posted the following news onto the Ayatana mailing list and whilst most regular readers will already be up to speed on these features/additions/changes it gives a nice way to provide a […]
Hands up if you’ve ever seen Ubuntu-based Linux Mint’s rather slick menu? Keep you hands up if you’ve ever wanted to install it in Ubuntu? Wow. That’s a lot of hands! Thankfully KdotJ over on the Ubuntu […]
PyWO allows users the ability to organize windows on the desktop using nothing but keyboard shortcuts. Features: Move window in any direction and snap it to other windows’ edges Resize (expand or shrink) window in […]
Scared, intimidated or just out-right confused by the command line interface? You neededn’t be with CliCompanion. Whilst the command line is a powerful, and impressive tool most users don’t need to go near it thanks […]
With the release of Canonical’s uTouch framework providing Multi-touch support in Ubuntu 10.10 many of us have been wondering how everyday applications, those not designed for multi-touch per se but rather clicks and keyboard presses, […]