All articles by Joey Sneddon

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.

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eHomosapien Metacity Now Available To Download

The Homosapien Metacity themes are stunning, but none more so than the Elementary styled one we featured a few days ago. Thankfully it is now available to download and install! Hurrah! Download @ 0rax0.deviantart.com/art/eHomosapien-Metacity-152882515 Install […]

4 February 2010
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Nautilus + CoverFlow = Awesome

The Gloobus team posted the following video on their blog earlier today and i thought i’d share it here as so many of you follow the Gloobus project. If you feel particularly excited by the […]

4 February 2010
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Docky Panel Mode Adds Spacing to Look More Like a panel.

A quick heads up for fans of Docky, the super-slick, super-flexible desktop dock for Linux: the latest update adds ‘spacing’ between launchers and docklets when running in Panel Mode. The image below gives you a […]

3 February 2010
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Help The ‘Ubuntu Welcome Tour’ Project

Once upon a time in a distribution not-so far far away a proposal was made: “Lets show new Ubuntu users a tour of their OS on start-up so that they’re orientated from the start.” Ultimately […]

3 February 2010
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Ubuntu Lucid "Aero" style* GTK posponed to Lucid+1

The awesome RGBA packing GTK+ enhancements and client side window decoration we told you about a few months back, targeted at inclusion in Lucid, have been postponed until Lucid+1. This This isn’t really a great […]

3 February 2010

New Ubuntu Tweak Now Available, Plus Awesome Lucid Wallpaper Proposal

I’m just writing to apologise as we currently have intermittent/extremely slow internet in our postcode today hence the lack of updates. To make up for it, here’s a bunch of stuff all in one go, […]

2 February 2010
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Gwibber Update Adds an Awesome New Look

GWibber 2.29.1 comes with an awesome new look – a reduced sidepane, a new accounts window and an input box on show by default! Install You can get the “new look” gwibber via the Gwibber […]

2 February 2010
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Pino 0.1.4 Released – Adds DM, Notifications, More

It must be twitter client update day – earlier we saw a new version of Buzzbird, now comes an updated version of Twitter application Pino. New Features 0.1.4 of Pino sees it add the following […]

1 February 2010
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eHomosapien – Elementary Inspired Homosapien Metacity

We’ve all been drooling over the Homosapien metacity – themes of late. Now, from the same designer as that Metacity comes an elementary inspired version called ‘eHomosapien‘. Sadly what you see above is merely a […]

1 February 2010
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Yet-Another Opera 10.50 Snapshot Released

Despite a new Opera snapshot only being released yesterday the Opera team have announced the availability of a new revision. This release fixes many bugs including: – Facebook is working again Work on tab management […]

1 February 2010
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Buzzbird 0.6 Released – Gets Visual Refresh, Retweet support

Twitter client ‘Buzzbird‘ has been updated to version 0.6 today bringing with it a much needed visual refresh, “official” retweet support and some user-interface fixes. Download You can download the latest release from the Buzzbird […]

1 February 2010
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‘Homosapien’ – Proposed Metacity for Lucid (Now downloadable)

‘Homosapien’ is a proposed Metacity theme – for Lucid.Although the author doesn’t offer up any more information other than the fact the image above is merely a mockup, it looks an exciting and unique submission […]

31 January 2010