All articles by Benjamin Humphrey

Interface Designer, OMG! Ubuntu! tech journalist and co-founder, Google and Ubuntu fanboy, part time musician, private pilot, geek. @humphreybc on Twitter.

New Ubuntu font giving Maverick a miss?

Will the new Ubuntu font be landing in Maverick or is it too late? A bug report opened up by Alan Bell lends some discussion to whether we'll see the font commissioned by Dalton Maag grace Ubuntu 10.10 with its presence or not.

6 September 2010

Designing the new OMG! Ubuntu! site

As promised, in this post I discuss the new website design, decisions I had to make, trade-offs and the process I went through to establish a nice style. You also get some "behind the scenes" images and information on the history of how the design was born over the last few months! Click through to read the full article in all its glory!

3 September 2010

OMG! we have a new site!

No doubt you'll notice something different round these parts. That's right, after two months of design and development, we have unleashed the new face of OMG! Ubuntu! So what's new? Make the jump to find out.

1 September 2010

What are your must have applications?

I have a problem. I’ll be the first to confess. It’s tearing me apart on the inside. Not a day goes by without me thinking about it, always at the back of my mind, in […]

23 August 2010

Ubuntu One has cool new features for Maverick

Ubuntu One has many changes and new features planned for release alongside Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat this October. These new features such as Windows syncing and improvements to speed might be just the thing users […]

20 August 2010

Mark Shuttleworth talks Unity at DebConf 10

Mark Shuttleworth talks about Unity, the new shell for Ubuntu Netbook Edition at DebConf 10 which took place earlier this month in New York City. In the video Mark covers the main aspects of Unity, […]

19 August 2010

Readers choice: Ask Collabora’s director some questions

Very soon we will be interviewing Rob McQueen, the co-founder and a Director of Collabora, an open source consulting company headquartered in the UK but with offices in Montreal, Barcelona and Brussels, and 70 hackers worldwide. They are responsible for much of the work on the gstreamer and telepathy frameworks used in many of your favourite applications, as well as the PiTiVi video editor.

19 August 2010

Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 Second Edition released

Just a quick heads up, we released the Second Edition of the Ubuntu Manual for Lucid yesterday to coincide with the point release for 10.04 LTS. Not much has changed from the first edition, apart […]

19 August 2010

LinApp website provides an awesome list of commercial Linux apps

Today we got an email in our inbox from a person named Marko who wanted to share with us a website that his company is working on. The site, called Lin App is aimed at […]

19 August 2010

uTorrent Destined to Land on Linux Shores Soon

uTorrent, everyone’s favourite torrent client for Windows is apparently coming to Linux – and therefore Ubuntu! The following was stated on the uTorrent idea which received a large number of votes: “We’re making good progress on the […]

17 August 2010

Update Manager gets an update for Maverick

Aha! See what I did with the title there? Recently I’ve found myself using Update Manager or Synaptic more often than a terminal to run update/upgrade commands. I don’t know why, but they feel snappier […]

16 August 2010

My Ubuntu stickers arrive (photos!)

A few days ago my new Ubuntu stickers arrived. I promptly started plastering them over all of my Ubuntu related things (and even non-Ubuntu related things) and they look fantastic! Here are some cool photos […]

15 August 2010
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