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Ubuntu panel icons get subtle refresh for 11.04 – bye bye green envelope!

Ubuntu's mono-styled tray icons have been "completely redrawn" for their inclusion in Natty.

23 March 2011

Help improve OMG! Ubuntu! by filling out this short survey

We've been working hard over the past month or so trying to improve the OMG! Ubuntu! experience for you guys, our faithful readers. It's all about making the experience the best we can for you, so if you can spare 20 minutes or so, we'd really appreciate your help in filling out this survey.

23 March 2011
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A truly natty narwhal wallpaper

We’re now just over a week away from the beta release of Ubuntu 11.04, but to keep ourselves pepped up in advance of the date we thought we’d share this neat Narwhal wallpaper for your […]

23 March 2011

Unity 2D: A quick look at the latest updates

Ubuntu Unity's "non-accelerated" sibling Unity 2D has began to play UI catch-up with its older brother. Peek in for images and video.

22 March 2011
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Firefox 4 PPA for Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 users

Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 users wanting to upgrade to the latest release of Mozilla Firefox can do so by adding the Firefox Stable PPA to their system sources.

22 March 2011

[How To] Record Audio Streams to MP3 in Ubuntu

If you want - nay need - to record something from a radio station, a live web-cast performance or some other 'audio' event playing on your computer in Ubuntu how can you do so?

22 March 2011
Firefox 4 App Tabs

Firefox 4 released today; it’s faster & feature rich – is it enough to compete with Chrome?

Today marks the release of Mozilla's long awaited Firefox 4. This new version of Firefox boasts that it's faster and simpler to use, as well as introducing a few new features, most notably, Firefox Sync. But is it good enough to compete with Google Chrome?

22 March 2011

Read-Me: Google Reader app for the Ubuntu Desktop

Bored of being browser-bound when reading your RSS feeds? Check out Read-Me: a dedicated Google-reader app for the Ubuntu desktop.

21 March 2011
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Has the new Ubuntu One Control Panel raised the stakes in app appearances?

Has Natty's new-look Ubuntu One Control Panel raised the standard of how applications should look on the Ubuntu desktop? Reader Romeo Calota thinks so. He stopped by our inbox to share his 2¢ and some mock-ups on just how things could look that smidge nicer...

21 March 2011
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Clementine music player hits 0.7 RC

Lightweight music player Clementine pushes out a release candidate ahead of its forthcoming 0.7 release.

21 March 2011
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A gnome menu style Unity Dash

It seems everyone and their pet parrot has an opinion on what Ubuntu's new Unity interface could be doing better right now. But Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff did more than mock-up, moan or migrate to a different Shell entirely when "driven nuts" by Unity's 'inconsistent launcher-duplicating Dash': he created a proof-of-concept implementation of his desired 'old school gnome-menu-like Dash'.

21 March 2011
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‘Light’ variant added to Ubuntu Font Family

The 'light' variant of the Ubuntu Font Family is available for download.

21 March 2011