The Me Menu in Ubuntu 10.04 is getting much needed improvements for Ubuntu 10.10 based on user feedback and research conducted recently. Some new features and bug fixes planned from the UDS session: Notifications to […]
Yesterdays election in the Philippines was notable for several reasons — not least of which was the introduction of a new electronic voting system in which Ubuntu has played a vital — but invisible — […]
Like the Ubuntu Firefox start page the Unity search bar (what’s Unity? where have you been?!) uses a custom Google search results page free of, well, everything useful and loaded down with ads. Whilst this […]
In case you’ve been hiding under a rock, or hang around people who exclusively use Mac hardware, then you’ve witnessed the explosion of the Netbook. Small, light, less then 10 inches, and with impressive levels […]
Design. The word on everyones lips after the release of Lucid Lynx, at least around these parts! The Canonical design team has only been around for one year, that is, two releases. They’re a very […]
Fellow OMG! writer Benjamin’s over at UDS and one of the key announcements during Mark’s plenary speech was the immediate availability of ‘Unity’: the new Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook interface. The interface is in the very early stages of development so […]
Well, here I am at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels, Belgium. Yesterday I got to head into Brussels and have a look around with a couple of Italian friends from the Italy LoCo team. […]
The results of the OpenShot survey that was conducted over the last few weeks has ended and the results have been made available on OpenShot developer Cenwen’s blog [French]. They show many interesting things, a brief […]
sentvid passed me a linkto his admittedly “not very Scientific but end user perspective” boot race video that sees him pit clean installs of Ubuntu 10.04 and Windows 7 against one another. It’s frivolous stuff […]
Further to our post on the forthcoming release of Dropbox 0.8.x using an application indicator and allowing the panel icons to be customized many readers have been hard at work creating new icon sets. Below […]
Users of desktop feed-reading application Liferea can be alerted to new RSS updates via the Ubuntu Messaging Menu thanks to a patch by the very cool Maia Kozheva. Download The patch is due to go […]
The latest testing version of popular cloud storage service Dropbox has introduced indicator applet support and, what will surely be music to icon-set makers ears’ everywhere — the ability to finally customize the dropbox tray […]
In case you’ve not heard, (probably due to rather extensive confusion about what and which is what) Compiz, Beryl and Compiz-Fusion have gone through a number of changes and splits and merges and has finally […]
Do you have a Dell Inspiron 1300 with a blasted Broadcom wireless card and want a fix? Saa on the Ubuntu Forums has provided just that! Download the following folder [broken link], unzip and double […]
We get sent so many great ideas, awesome tutorials and see applications updates fire out updates quicker than a plasma canon hooked up to the national grid that even we can’t manage to keep up […]
How much would you pay for five really great Linux-compatible games? It really is up to you with ‘The Humble Indie Bundle’. It’s an exciting experiment in online retail & distribution — these games would […]
Both in response to my recent review of Midori and some argument… ehm, discussion, in yesterdays Ubuntuesday OMG! Podcast, I have taken on the task of running Midori and Google Chrome through a few tests […]
Every Ubuntu release is followed by Ubuntu Open Week during which Mark Shuttleworth holds a Q&A session where users can ask him pretty much anything. A condensed selection of highlights follow. Maverick will not be […]