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Lucid Banshee Tray Icon Finally gets fixed

Just a short sharp shot: The daily builds of Banshee (in the Banshee Daily PPA, no less) finally rock out with a ‘fixed’ tray icon – news which will be like fresh morning dew to […]

29 June 2010
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OpenShot adds 3D animated Titling

OpenShot development has been a wee quiet of late – bar the OpenShot survey conducted a few months back. That silence is over with today’s announcement by lead OpenShot developer Jonathan Thomas that OpenShot will […]

29 June 2010
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Nautilus-Elementary opens testing for Maverick & intros new Zeitgeist search

One for the Maverick users amongst you – Ammonkey, Nautilus-Elementary’s hard-working and talented developer, has made available for testing the latest work on the refined browser for the early adopters. The new testing branch, based on nautilus 2.31.3+,  not […]

28 June 2010
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OS X Burning tool ‘BURN’ coming to Linux

Popular OS X disc burning utility ‘Burn‘ could find its way on to Linux – with a bit of help. The developer of Burn is eager to port the application over to Linux, having already […]

28 June 2010
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Lombard & Fillmore; 2 new video & audio editing apps released

The company behind Ubuntu 10.10’s default photo management application ‘Shotwell’ have today announced the immediate availability of two new multimedia applications: a video editor and an audio editor. From Yorba themselves: – Fillmore is an […]

28 June 2010
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New .deb Thumbnailer script gives .deb installers application icons (updated)

I love how fast the Open Source community works. I really do. Earlier today I posted an article titled “IF WINE INSTALLERS CAN LOOK FANCY, WHY NOT .DEBS?” which asked the question ‘Why do .debs […]

28 June 2010
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Calibre: the ‘VLC’ of eBook reader software

Whilst reading eBooks on dedicated hardware devices has become the trend of late there are many people who still read eBooks on their computers via the use of eBook reader software. eBooks have been knocking […]

28 June 2010

If Wine installers can look fancy, why not .debs?

Y’know, now that Windows executables look all fancy with the latest Wine – making use of the inbuilt application icons – I can’t help but think that they make Ubuntu look worse. Why? Here goes… […]

28 June 2010
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Face recognition & auto-tagging coming to digiKam

Google’s Picasa desktop application has it, Apple’s iPhoto has it and even Windows Live Photo Gallery now has it. What am I talking about?  Face recognition. Picasa Vs… Ermm The lack of capable face-recognition in […]

27 June 2010
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How to Use Cardapio Menu Applet With Docky

Cardapio – the awesome alternative main menu applet we’ve championed here on OMG! for some time – has a hidden secret: you can use it via Docky! How so? First check you’ve actually installed Cardapio […]

27 June 2010
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Android Clock screenlet theme

Screenlet clock fans seeking an Android clock theme need look no further. Regular readers may well know that I had made an Android clock skin myself but since it has disappeared from both my Drop […]

27 June 2010
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make your own Custom LiveCD/distro easily Using Novo Builder

Making your own fully customised Debian/Ubuntu based operating system has never been easier using Novo Builder – an easy-to-use GUI ‘Linux Operating System building tool’. Novo was was built to “…allow anyone with the time […]

27 June 2010