Section: Apps

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.

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wxbanker desktop app makes keeping track of your money simple, pretty

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. […]

13 August 2010
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Nautilus update in Maverick bring many new fixes, changes

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 […]

12 August 2010
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Songbird for Linux: Not extinct yet, deb’s for the latest version

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’ […]

12 August 2010
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Firefox 4 Beta 3 released

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, […]

12 August 2010
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Chipmunk – Sweet little GTK Last.FM Player

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 […]

12 August 2010
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New Shutter release adds UbuntuOne Uploading, monochrome icon & hosting fixes

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 […]

11 August 2010
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Banshee 1.7.4 released, adds user manual,

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 […]

11 August 2010
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A technical look at the OMG! User Awarding System

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 […]

11 August 2010
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F-Spot 0.7.2 Released

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 […]

11 August 2010
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Enable HQ WebGL graphics in Firefox 4 Beta

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.

11 August 2010
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‘For Purchase’ entry lands in Software Store, nothing to get excited about just yet

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 […]

11 August 2010
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Bringing fun back to the desktop with… OMG! (the app)

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 […]

10 August 2010