Running a custom version of Ubuntu on your iPhone or iPod Touch may sound crazy but it’s yet another example of the versatile and adaptable nature of Linux as a whole. Now, If your first […]
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 […]
In case you all haven’t heard, back in late July, Jailbreaking devices was ruled to be legal by the United States government, and similar bits of legislator are seeing movement in other notable countries (although […]
Before I make for the land of slumber tonight let me leave you with a quick read that doubles up as a must read not only for Unity fans but for those with a naturally curious disposition.
Love to kick your file-browsing old-school? Think that the default navigation bar in Nautilus in crumby? Want to switch back to the traditional olde ‘location entry’ mode, rendering those breadcrumbs toast? Okay, enough of the […]
Pongo is a small, free screen recording utility that merges video of your desktop, your webcam and sound from your microphone together, out putting it into one single .ogv file ready to edit, adjust or […]
The second beta of KDE twitter application Choqok sees release today. Along with an improved re-tweet function, nickname auto-completion & support for twitter’s OAuth system the application is a worthy upgrade for the brave and bold twitter-addicts out there. […]
In a post to the Ubuntu-Art mailing list Canonical’s Matthew Nuzum has opened the call for this cycles ‘countdown banner’ submissions. A design already submitted by Immanuel Peratoner “As in past releases we’d like to […]
Pay heed young heathens, for hereth in lie the rules fore which yee must abide when o’commenting. Okay, serious stuff. Lately the sea of awesome comments here on the OMG! has become diluted with a small doses […]
Add or edit your keybindings with KeyLaunch – a lightweight script with a neat GUI. Select the keybinding you wish to change on the left and then double-click on the in-line entry fields to edit or add a new shortcut/command. […]
The headline above is partly inspired by Alex Launi’s brilliant summary of the latest Banshee merge, which brings improved device detection and – about time! – working iPhone and iPod Touch support. The long-awaited ability to just plug-and-play Apple’s […]
Ubuntu user and graphic designer Half Left has put together several different Gnome-Shell themes, including this one based off of Elementary OS. I don’t know about you, but personally I’m a total Gnome-Shell hater. However, […]
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 […]
While on vacation this last month, I gathered up all the requests for Ubuntu help and advice that I have received over a year or so and decided I would attack them here by popularity. […]
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. […]
I love it when something stunning (and space-themed, I am biased) comes along to drop my jaw. Say Hola to the following purdy little Plymouth splash screen created by ~internauta2000. It’s an animated, luscious and […]
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 […]
Ever wanted to mount your Google Docs library as a drive in Nautilus so you can edit and save to your Google Docs directly from your desktop, no browser-needed? Everyone’s favorite tea-drinker Martin Owens has […]