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.
Moovida, the popular cross-platform GStreamer-using media centre, are lunching a new desktop media player application �” called Moovida Core - as part of its’ ‘Moovida 2.0‘ strategy. The player, which uses Banshee as its backend, […]
Turn your mouse movements into a zany desktop wallpaper with IOGraph. Developed by Moscow designer Anatoly Zenkov & his colleague Andrey Shipilov, the Java application is set to run in the background while you go about your everyday ‘computing’. During this […]
Nautilus-Elementary have added a toolbar editor in an update to their simplified-spin of the titular file browser. We showed you a preview of the new toolbar editor a week ago, along with a link to […]
We’ve featured a lot of wallpapers recently �” but they’ve all been quite striking, colourful or, in the words of my mother ‘”fancy”. http://www.minimalwall.com features backgrounds that are far removed from that and, as such, […]
Want to sing-along with your favourite songs in Ubuntu? There are several desktop applications that can automatically display lyrics to the currently playing song.
Want your desktop, GDM background & Plymouth boot image to match? Using gargantuo‘s Global Wallpaper script you can easily do so. Download Download the script @ gnome-look.org Installation Extract the archive Open a terminal and […]
MadnessRed mailed me with his tip on how to make a mono-panel matching Screenlets icon. You take this .svg by Darkhaseo and change the colour from ‘606060’ to ‘EAD3D0’ via your preferred medium (gedit is quickest). For […]
There may not be many differences ‘on the surface’ in Maverick’s first alpha, but I couldn’t help but notice one visual change -a new Rhythmbox icon. How much nicer is that than the ‘current’ icon? […]
Whether you intend to download and install Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha 1 or not the following meerkat-themed wallpapers will certainly get you in the Maverick-y mood. Made by the super talented Joern, whom you can find […]
The first Alpha of Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat has been made available for download. This is the first of four Alpha releases before the 10.10 beta in September. As to be expected so close after […]
Alternative solutions for playing Flash content online seems to be all the rage these days. There are many open source projects that aim to provide a free ‘flash’ player, such as Gnash and Lightspark, but […]
Talented designer MastroPino strikes again; yesterday we featured his wonderful Elementary Pidgin theme and today we’re excited to share with you his equally-sublime Empathy theme. I much prefer Empathy over pidgin but hate the default […]