Here you can discover the latest Linux apps, software and system utilities to use on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and related distributions, from office suites and music players to dev tools and CLI scripts for getting things done.
Mike Roony, author of desktop personal finance application ‘wxBanker’, got in touch with us a few days ago to point out a rather startling fact: we’ve never featured a finance app here on OMG! Ever. […]
A new upstream version of Nautilus, Ubuntu’s default file browser, has landed in Maverick. Normally there isn’t much to report on but with with the 10.10 Feature Freeze nigh a veritable slew of changes, fixes n’ features have […]
Official development and support for music-player Songbird on Linux was culled several months back but thanks to dedicated community support Linux users can still keep up with the Joneses and benefit from all the latest fixes n’ […]
The third beta of the Firefox 4 development cycle has been released. What’s new? Errr, for Linux users precious little in terms of eye-candy or new buttons to press but boat loads of bug fixes, […]
Last.fm lovers addicted to music streaming service should cancel their therapy and check out the following shiny new application named ‘Chipmunk’. Created by Arch Linux user Andy Kluger, who has a self-confessed dependency on Last.fm, the […]
Shutter – easily the best screenshot tool ever created – has finally shimmied out a new release, packed full of crazy new goodness for us all to enjoy. UbuntuOne file uploading Essentially all the UbuntuOne […]
Banshee 1.7.4 has been released today adding access to a user manual as well as:- Duplicate Genre solver in Metadata Fixup extension Support for Amazon MP3 purchases containing PDFs and videos Improved Metadata Fixup support […]
This is a very technical post about the basics and fundamentals of the OMG! App… Taken from the GNOME Wiki The idea being OMG! is to have a central user awarding system where users collect […]
It might not be Ubuntu 10.10’s photo manager of choice but the F-Spot machine continues to chug along apace. Version 0.7.2 of the photo management application has just been released, coming a mere four weeks […]
Of the many new features Mozilla are stuffing the next edition of their premier browser with is support for the 'work in progress' HTML 3D graphics API WebGL. This will provide high-quality 3D graphics in-browser without the need for plugins. OMG!'s good friend Bilal "bug crusher" Akhtar sent over some instructions for getting it up and running in Ubuntu Lucid which i've printed below.
Pictures tell a thousand words (or in OMG!’s case around 377 words) In a recent update to the Ubuntu Software Centre in 10.10 has come a sidebar entry for paid applications. There aren’t actually any […]
Ohso wants to create fun, unique apps. Jorge linked me up with this idea. I quote from the blog post: I think it would be fun to add an achievement system to the Ubuntu Desktop, like is […]