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.
With the default apps chosen and announced for 10.10, Maverick Meerkat, I decided that I wanted to take a look at a few apps in particular and look at some of their strengths and weaknesses, […]
The desktop application selection for Ubuntu 10.10 was discussed in-depth this afternoon at UDS and, image application aside, there will be no major changes to the set of applications shipped by default Ubuntu 10.10 App […]
Although F-Spot currently maintains the comfortable position as the default image management and editing application in Ubuntu 10.04, Maverick will see the much-derided application dethroned in favour of photo management application Shotwell. The decision, confirmed […]
The Opensource Chromium browser – the base behind Google Chrome – will be the default browser in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Netbook Edition – at least until Alpha 3! Speed The decision, taken today in the […]
Nautilus-Elementary developer ammonkey has kindly provided OMG! Ubuntu! with a screen cast demonstrating Zeitgeist integration with the popular well designed file manager the pairing of which see’s, potentially, the first semantic file browser for GNOME. […]
Great news for gamers everywhere — the Humble Indie Bundle (where you could pay whatever you liked for 5 6 great Linux-supported games) was a roaring success earning the assorted parties involved a massive $1,025,219 […]
Ubuntu 10.10 will see the introduction of a ‘unified sound menu‘, designed to allow users to easily control music playback and control over-all sound volume; staking itself on more than just managing volume, but managing […]
Yesterdays election in the Philippines was notable for several reasons — not least of which was the introduction of a new electronic voting system in which Ubuntu has played a vital — but invisible — […]
Like the Ubuntu Firefox start page the Unity search bar (what’s Unity? where have you been?!) uses a custom Google search results page free of, well, everything useful and loaded down with ads. Whilst this […]
In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, or hang around people who exclusively use Mac hardware, then you’ve witnessed the explosion of the Netbook. Small, light, less then 10 inches, and with impressive levels […]
Fellow OMG! writer Benjamin’s over at UDS and one of the key announcements during Mark’s plenary speech was the immediate availability of ‘Unity’: the new Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook interface. The interface is in the very early stages of development so […]
The results of the OpenShot survey that was conducted over the last few weeks has ended and the results have been made available on OpenShot developer Cenwen’s blog [French]. They show many interesting things, a brief […]