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iX – Ubuntu-based OS for iPhone / iPod Touch

Running a custom version of Ubuntu on your iPhone or iPod Touch may sound crazy but it’s yet another example of the versatile and adaptable nature of Linux as a whole. Now, If your first […]

16 August 2010
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Update Manager gets an update for Maverick

Aha! See what I did with the title there? Recently I’ve found myself using Update Manager or Synaptic more often than a terminal to run update/upgrade commands. I don’t know why, but they feel snappier […]

16 August 2010
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Tyler on Ubuntu: Jailbreaking and Why it’s good for us.

In case you all haven’t heard, back in late July, Jailbreaking devices was ruled to be legal by the United States government, and similar bits of legislator are seeing movement in other notable countries (although […]

16 August 2010
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Unity Developer Talks Shop. Simply.

Before I make for the land of slumber tonight let me leave you with a quick read that doubles up as a must read not only for Unity fans but for those with a naturally curious disposition.

15 August 2010
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make breadcrumbs in Nautilus toast by switching the default back to ‘text entry’.

Love to kick your file-browsing old-school? Think that the default navigation bar in Nautilus in crumby? Want to switch back to the traditional olde ‘location entry’ mode, rendering those breadcrumbs toast? Okay, enough of the […]

15 August 2010
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Pongo records screen activity, audio & webcam video in one video: a screecasters dream

Pongo is a small, free screen recording utility that merges video of your desktop, your webcam and sound from your microphone together, out putting it into one single .ogv file ready to edit, adjust or […]

15 August 2010
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Choqok 1.0 Beta2 released – adds nickname auto-completion, new image uploaders and Oauth support

The second beta of KDE twitter application Choqok sees release today. Along with an improved re-tweet function, nickname auto-completion & support for twitter’s OAuth system the application is a worthy upgrade for the brave and bold twitter-addicts out there. […]

15 August 2010
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Help design a new Ubuntu 10.10 countdown banner

In a post to the Ubuntu-Art mailing list Canonical’s Matthew Nuzum has opened the call for this cycles ‘countdown banner’ submissions. A design already submitted by Immanuel Peratoner  “As in past releases we’d like to […]

15 August 2010
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Oh noes! We now have a comments Code of Conduct

Pay heed young heathens, for hereth in lie the rules fore which yee must abide when o’commenting.  Okay, serious stuff. Lately the sea of awesome comments here on the OMG! has become diluted with a small doses […]

15 August 2010
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Quickly edit shortcut keys with KeyLaunch

Add or edit your keybindings with KeyLaunch – a lightweight script with a neat GUI. Select the keybinding you wish to change on the left and then double-click on the in-line entry fields to edit or add a new shortcut/command.  […]

15 August 2010
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OMG that’s so 2009! Banshee now plays nice with iPhones, iPod Touch, more!

The first part of the headline above is stolen from Alex Launi’s brilliant surmise on the latest Banshee merge that brings with it improved device detection and (get stoked) iPhone and iPod Touch hardware support out of the box! […]

15 August 2010
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Beautiful “Elementary” Style GNOME Shell Theme

Ubuntu user and graphic designer Half Left has put together several different Gnome-Shell themes, including this one based off of Elementary OS. I don’t know about you, but personally I’m a total Gnome-Shell hater. However, […]

15 August 2010