Shotwell is a photo management and editing application that is fast gaining popularity. Today Yorba, the team behind Shotwell, announced the release of version 0.5.0 which sees the application gain many new features including photo […]
Thanks to an aptly titled reader called SuperMatt we now have an IRC channel. Feel free to chime in whenever — can’t promise I’ll always be on there (i have posts to, well, post) but I’ll try. […]
The repositioning of window button controls in Ubuntu 10.04 has undoubtedly been one of the most ‘controversial’ decisions taken by the OS team period. They change can seem both trivial – they are just window […]
Since launching our, for want of a better term, ‘OMG! Blog! Idol’ yesterday we’ve received a veritable sack-load of submissions and ideas — thank you so much people! Although nothing is going be decided on just […]
Ubuntu many be getting a visual refresh for 10.04 but don’t expect an audible one as well. The system sound theme will likely be staying the same – and not on purpose! A commenter on […]
Despite Google Chrome/Chromium being able to use native GTK colouring the results are more often than not disappointing. Thus getting Chrome to blend in with your desktop works best when using Chrome Themes. Ubuntu Chrome […]
Pinta is a simple GTK drawing and graphics editing programme modelled after Windows application Paint.NET. New Features Version 0.2 has just been released adding the following features to the tool-set: – 5 new tools – […]
Hello good people of the oh-em-gee communitee! My name is Benjamin, otherwise known as humphreybc. For those of you who haven’t heard of me I’m a 19 year old kiwi Computer Science student studying in […]
With the release of Ubuntu 10.04 literally just around the corner it’s once again time to think about giving OMG! a visual refresh. Whilst previous designs were literally borne from chaining myself to my desk […]
Docky. I love it. So when Herr Gabriel e-mailed me with his suggestion for improving multiple application window management in Docky I must admit that I was certainly interested. “Since Docky is able to indicate […]
If you lead a busy life, don’t visit OMG! every day or just generally find more interesting things to do than monitor this blog (highly unlikely, right?) then you might’ve missed some of this weeks […]
I don’t fully know the story behind this screenshot – OMG! reader danyR kindly punted it my way – so all i know so far is that it appears to be recent (13th March) and […]
Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.3 has been released today with improved metacity button switching options in response to Ubuntu 10.04 and its “controversial” window button placments. Switching the buttons from right to left now just takes one […]
With the familiar brown tones of Ubuntu of yore being replaced with vibrant purple hues in the recent re-branding, the ‘purplification‘ of the default icon set had to occur sooner or later. Well, some icons […]
One of Benjamin Humphrey’s “16 things to improve in Ubuntu 10.04” concerned Lucid’s new-look sound applet – a small, square, inconsistent little box. Some of his gripes were: – The slider is too short and […]
The release schedule for the next +1 version of Ubuntu – the as-yet unnamed Ubuntu 10.10 ‘M’ – was put up on the Ubuntu Wiki a few days ago. The release dates are as follows: […]
David Nielson has become OMG!’s very own Banshee “news canon” of late by keeping us up-to-date on the latest and greatest developments to arguably one of the best media applications around. Now he’s got something […]
Excuse the bad pun, but I’ve been poking around with the music player Guayadeque this morning. A week back OMG! readers chose the new icon for it and you know what? You guys chose the […]