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.
Y’know, now that Windows executables look all fancy with the latest Wine – making use of the inbuilt application icons – I can’t help but think that they make Ubuntu look worse. Why? Here goes… […]
Google’s Picasa desktop application has it, Apple’s iPhoto has it and even Windows Live Photo Gallery now has it. What am I talking about? Face recognition. Picasa Vs… Ermm The lack of capable face-recognition in […]
Cardapio – the awesome alternative main menu applet we’ve championed here on OMG! for some time – has a hidden secret: you can use it via Docky! How so? First check you’ve actually installed Cardapio […]
Screenlet clock fans seeking an Android clock theme need look no further. Regular readers may well know that I had made an Android clock skin myself but since it has disappeared from both my Drop […]
Making your own fully customised Debian/Ubuntu based operating system has never been easier using Novo Builder – an easy-to-use GUI ‘Linux Operating System building tool’. Novo was was built to “…allow anyone with the time […]
Installing applications and PPA’s mentioned on OMG! Ubuntu! is just about to get super-easy. We feature a boat load and then some of PPA’s on OMG! Ubuntu! and our preferred way of you installing those […]
Is Linux finally about to get a decent Amazon MP3 downloader? You betcha! Aaron Bockover, creator and maintainer of the Banshee project, will be releasing an Amazon MP3 download extension for the popular media player […]
PyTask is a self-described ‘simple task list manager’ that orientates itself around providing ‘extra features designed for devlopers, programmers & teams’. On first glance it could be easy to mistake PyTask as ‘basic’. It may lack all of the various […]
Ever wanted to convert a whole bunch of files in one go? Doing so is easy using SoundConverter. Sound Converter easily lets you convert all kinds of music-formats in all kinds of other music-formats, best […]
A PPA containing the early progress on Emesne2 has been made available for users wishing to try out the successor to the current Emesene 1.x releases. The developers hope to make Emesene2 that little bit more distinctive […]
During the development cycle of Firefox 4 Beta proper Mozilla are going to ensure they get users feedback every step of the way during what promises to be one of the most important development cycles […]
The decision to place tabs ‘on top’ for Firefox 4 has almost been the Mozilla equivalent of Left-hand side window buttons; for some it seems nothing short of a blatant rip off of Chrome/ium & Opera. Others feel […]