TechCrunch are reporting that ChromeOS could be launched within a week – albeit for a limited set of devices (mainly netbooks). This isn’t a crazy supposition given Google themselves had announced plans for an early version to […]
OpenSuse 11.2 was released today and what better way to nod your head to the distro who’s company (Novell) are behind so many wonderful applications Ubuntu users enjoy – F-Spot, Banshee, Evolution. (Well scratch that […]
Docky now have an official development PPA, so wherever you were getting Docky from previously you’ll probably want to swap and use this one. Of course, please note the word ‘development’ in the title; this […]
CheckGMail is a popular panel applet for notifying a user of new mail in their Gmail account. It’s also popular for annoying Ubuntu users since it doesn’t use the notification system like most other applications […]
Love Banshee but prefer Muine’s interface? Well you can get a Muine-looking Banshee it with one command! Nothing to install or download. Banshee with Muine-like Interface Muine? What the frakk is that?! Muine is a […]
The facebook-chat plugin for Pidgin available in Ubuntu’s repositories is out-of-date and doesn’t work with recent versions of Pidgin spitting out “wrong-credentials” pop-ups and the like. Instead you’ll want to use the most recent version […]
This icon will replace the current colourful Ubuntu logo icon in the top left with a monochrome Humanity style one. Perhaps an humanity icon too far? Not to me! You can get it @ http://gnome-look.org […]
Emerillon is a map viewer for GNOME that uses OpenStreetMap data (a wiki for maps) to display custom “views” such as transport, cycle routes and terrain as well as the general “street” view. Given that […]
Ubuntu users can get a the cool functionality of Windows 7’s “Aero Snap” with a few copy’s and a few pastes thanks to an awesome tutorial on the UbuntuForums by forum-er gotsanity. Props and cookies […]
You know the drill by now! Humanity Style Icons for another batch of applications. Fusion Download @ gnome-look.org Install ALT+F2 gksu nautilus /usr/share/icons/hicolor/24×24/apps/ Replace old icon with new one ALT+F2 gksudo gtk-update-icon-cache /usr/share/icons/hicolor Rhythmbox Download […]
I feel like I’ve written far to many eye-candy related posts today, so i’ll finish on a good one. This a dust persona for Firefox that matches up with the Dust GTK theme. No extra […]
If you use the Banshee Daily PPA you may have recently noticed* a new entry in the left hand menu panel: Internet Archive. Through this you can browse all sorts of royalty free and public […]
natewiebe13 – the designer of humanity style icons for Tomboy and Banshee, would like to know which icon OMG!UBUNTU! readers most want made next! There’s no promise it will get made, but it will certainly […]
Continuing our series on replacement icons for applications that don’t blend nicely with the Karmic default theme ‘humanity’ we find two new icons one for music player Banshee and the other for note-taking supremo Tomboy. […]
The official spiel describes Shotwell as an “open source photo organizer” for the GNOME desktop. It is, however, a little bit more than that. Not much, but a little. Photo organization Organization in Shotwell takes […]
Yet more in our series on Humanity Style icons – this time we look at clipboard manager application ‘Parcel lite’. Parcel lite I was in the middle of creating my own parcel-lite icons when these […]
If you want to watch YouTube videos without using Flash you can – thanks to neosmart. Available as both a webpage AND as an extension for Chromium (and shortly to work on Chrome), Firefox and […]
It requires a serious amount of hacking, but you can get “aero style” windows in GNOME using this. (I’m not talking Aero style window borders, but the entire application.) I’ll be writing a tutorial on […]