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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
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My Ubuntu stickers arrive (photos!)

A few days ago my new Ubuntu stickers arrived. I promptly started plastering them over all of my Ubuntu related things (and even non-Ubuntu related things) and they look fantastic! Here are some cool photos […]

15 August 2010
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OMG Video: Desktop Recording in Ubuntu – No Sammich For You!

While on vacation this last month, I gathered up all the requests for Ubuntu help and advice that I have received over a year or so and decided I would attack them here by popularity. […]

13 August 2010
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wxbanker desktop app makes keeping track of your money simple, pretty

Mike Roony, author of desktop personal finance application ‘wxBanker’, got in touch with us a few days ago to point out a rather startling fact: we’ve never featured a finance app here on OMG! Ever. […]

13 August 2010
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Stunning user-created Plymouth boot Splash

I love it when something stunning (and space-themed, I am biased) comes along to drop my jaw. Say Hola to the following purdy little Plymouth splash screen created by ~internauta2000. It’s an animated, luscious and […]

13 August 2010
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Nautilus update in Maverick bring many new fixes, changes

A new upstream version of Nautilus, Ubuntu’s default file browser, has landed in Maverick. Normally there isn’t much to report on but with with the 10.10 Feature Freeze nigh a veritable slew of changes, fixes n’ features have […]

12 August 2010
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Edit, work on & save your Google Docs via Nautilus, no browser needed!

Ever wanted to mount your Google Docs library as a drive in Nautilus so you can edit and save to your Google Docs directly from your desktop, no browser-needed? Everyone’s favorite tea-drinker Martin Owens has […]

12 August 2010
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Sonar theme pack for Ubuntu – give your desktop a green makeover (link fixed)

OpenSUSE’s default GNOME theme ‘Sonar’ is often regarded as one of the best Gnome themes around. That is, of course, open to debate but the green hues and light gradients used by the Chameleons’ theme […]

12 August 2010
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Songbird for Linux: Not extinct yet, deb’s for the latest version

Official development and support for music-player Songbird on Linux was culled several months back but thanks to dedicated community support Linux users can still keep up with the Joneses and benefit from all the latest fixes n’ […]

12 August 2010
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Firefox 4 Beta 3 released

The third beta of the Firefox 4 development cycle has been released. What’s new?  Errr, for Linux users precious little in terms of eye-candy or new buttons to press but boat loads of bug fixes, […]

12 August 2010
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Chipmunk – Sweet little GTK Last.FM Player

Last.fm lovers addicted to music streaming service should cancel their therapy and check out the following shiny new application named ‘Chipmunk’. Created by Arch Linux user Andy Kluger, who has a self-confessed dependency on Last.fm, the […]

12 August 2010