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.
Always feared that controlling Compiz with the power of thought alone was something only available for Jedi’s and Sylar from Heroes? Think again. (Bad pun. BAD pun.) Kristopher Ives over at santiance.com is going to […]
The latest, and likely last, version of MSN messaging ‘clone’ Emesene 1.x has been released. We’ve raved on and on and on and on about Emesene in the past and for good reason. If you’re […]
Not definite but it is indeed curious that the Gwibber twitter avatar has been replaced with this shiny new icon: – The icon isn’t that far removed from the current icon either: – It still […]
Although official support of Songbird on Linux will cease a community maintained version will continue – as we mentioned on our previous post. This version now has a (likely temporary) name: Lyrebird. It’s early days […]
GNOME 3 �” and the Shell it brings – won’t be the big bad many fear and as work on it progresses more concepts and interface designs are coming out that will surely help abate […]
A more befitting Transmission icon finally landed. It feels like i’ve been following the bug report for this for an age and then some… Also pleased to see the ‘elevated privileges’ icon get a spiffing […]
Clementine music player is a port of Amarok 1.4 with many features rewritten in Qt4. We love trying anything new at OMG! towers so after spotting Clementine mentioned in a comment by reader Heepie in […]
It seems that a week can’t go by without the superhuman development team behind desktop Twitter app Pino releasing yet another update. And we’re certainly not complaining! This weeks’ update sees the awesome twitter application gain a […]
The Songbird team�have announced that they will no longer be officially supporting Linux versions of their media player. Community versions, will, however still be provided but there is no guarantee that these versions will see […]
Mark Shuttleworth has announced the name of Ubuntu 10.10 – And yes, in a post dated 2nd of April – ‘Maverick Meerkat’ In a post on his blog, titled ‘Shooting for the perfect 10.10 with […]
When testing out the Lucid live CD next you’ll see a brand new icon for the Ubuntu Installer rocking out on its’ lonesome. Thanks to THAC0 over in the OMG! IRC I can bring you […]
Just a quick heads up �” window controls in Ubuntu 10.04 WILL be staying on the left hand side but the button order will revert to Close, Minimize, Maximize. Mark Shuttleworth issued the final verdict […]