Facebook made their ‘Facebook chat’ protocol all awesome and nice today by adding support for the Jabber/XMPP protocol. This means you can have facebook chat in Pidgin, Empathy, etc without the need for buggy third-party […]
The following idea, proposed on Ubuntu Brainstorm, puts forward the sugeestion that users should be allowed to configure the application set before installation. Sort of like the Windows Browser ballot but for, well, pretty much […]
Pino is a fantastic little twitter application. We’ve blogged about it many times previously and know many of you love it. One thing that still comes up as an ‘issue’ whenever we blog about it […]
Ubuntu supremo Jono Bacon has been blogging about Gwibber and tweeting in Ubuntu Lucid – including the awesome screenshot of a mutli-column Gwibber as shamlessly pasted above. He rather eloquently raves about it: – No […]
Installing Nvidia drivers manually isn’t as big of a deal as it sounds. It’s literally a few button pushes, a round of “Ok”, “Ok”, “Ok” and a reboot. In many respects it’s the easiest way […]
You know the drill by now… The following are proposed themes for inclusion in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Lumus One aspect where this theme stands out is that it’s not dark AND it’s not a […]
A few days ago we reported news that Ubuntu was dropping the OpenOffice.org (OOo) suite of apps from default installs of Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook Edition. Many of you cheered the decision, noting that cramped keyboards […]
Unity is yet another theme proposal for inclusion in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. Image link since broken Where Unity differs from other proposed GTK themes is that it aims to offer a complete “fluid” look […]
GNOME-Shell needs no introduction. I’m sure many of you all know what it is, have opinions on it and probably you will have tried it out. But have you tried it out lately? Progress OMG! […]
We posted the awesome Lucidity Ubuntu 10.04 theme mock-up earlier – along with a remark that it wouldn’t take long for the theme to err in to life… Well the Metacity has been made, even […]
http://sites.google.com/site/jozsefbekes/Home/gtalx OPENSHOT UPDATES!!!!! wallbox git Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk
A proposed style for inclusion in Lucid is ‘Lucidity‘ a “clean, monochrome icon, minimalist” type theme that still makes use of the default Ubuntu colour palette. Mock-up only As with Homosapien originally, this style is […]
At some point I will have to stop talking about Homosapien but it’s hard when tweaks and edits, like the following edit by osliner, keep cropping up: – Slimmer, compact and users your selected background […]
The MeMenu is part of Lucid’s "social network" integration and is better explained in our previous in-depth article: "Lucid’s Going Social" Regular OMG! contributor om26er passed me this awesome screenshot giving us a first look […]
Wallbox – a desktop Facebook notification-come-interaction applet-come-application – proved quite popular when we posted about it a few days ago. In that post one thing i hate was the icon. It was some form of […]
If you’re using the awesome Nautilus-Elementary you may love this. The following Elementary theme mod replaces the standard ‘breadcrumbs’ in Elementary-Nautilus with a slick ‘all-in-one’ set: – Original on top, Elementary-mod on bottom. Get it […]
‘Docky Unread Count’ for Thunderbird adds an unread e-mail count badge onto your Thunderbird icon in Docky. The add-on uses the Docky Dbus API to add the badge so there’s nothing to install or compile […]
The newly-renamed Ubuntu Netbook Edition won’t include OpenOffice, the free office suite. Discussions on the software set the official netbook spin will use includes a proposal to drop applications that either don’t suit typical netbook […]