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Quickly record soundcard output in Ubuntu with OutRec

“Have you ever wanted to record a sound heard from your computer or website?” queries OutRec on their website  “If yes OutRec is perfect for you.” The application is simple:  you can record everything outputted […]

14 July 2010
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(drum roll) The mystery ‘Chromium menu theme’ is revealed…

If you remember seeing this a day or two back and thinking “Ooooh”…. …followed by feeling a bit “Boooo” when looking at your stock Ambiance theme, then perk up – I need your ears, eyes […]

14 July 2010
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The Ubuntu One Control Panel: Beauty in simplicity

Signing up for and managing your Ubuntu One account could be about to get a whole world easier in later releases of Ubuntu with the introduction of a new desktop-based Ubuntu One Control Panel from […]

13 July 2010
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One users ideal Ubuntu 10.10 Sound Menu mocked-up

Earlier this week Ubuntu’s Community Super-dude Jono Bacon blogged his delight at the ongoing-progress of Ubuntu 10.10’s spiffy new Sound Menu. We, too, here at OMG! towers, have been going a bit gaga over its […]

13 July 2010
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Integrated Amazon MP3 Store comes to Banshee

Banshee developer Aaron Bockover has announced that even greater Amazon MP3 integration is coming to the Banshee media player. A new extension will embed the Amazon MP3 store directly within Banshee itself. Users will then […]

13 July 2010
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Easily Create a multiboot usb stick

Ever wanted to try out lots of different LiveCD’s on your thumb drive without the hassle of installing them one at a time? Say hello to MultiBoot LiveUSB which does just that. You just drag […]

13 July 2010
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CREBS Slideshow Generator gets new features but requires a little something in return…

It’s been a while since we last mentioned the very awesome wallpaper-slideshow generator ‘CREBS‘ (CREate Background Slideshow). “Crebs is a small Python/GTK application that allows you to quickly create wallpaper slideshows with many user-configurable settings. […]

13 July 2010
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Rapid Photo Downloader Makes importing & sorting photos easy

If you have a camera – be it digital stills or digital video – then you know that importing and renaming files is a chore; Camera’s aren’t able to name photos taken at Sally-Sue’s wedding […]

13 July 2010
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Auto-update to the latest Dropbox Experimental builds with dbupdater

DropBox users who like to live on the bleeding edge using the latest experimental builds with the latest features probably find the checking, downloading and installation of every new build a little bit of a […]

12 July 2010

At Last: Spotify Comes to Linux With Native Client

The popular music streaming service ‘Spotify’ has today announced a preview release of a native Linux build for their desktop media player. Until now Linux users of the service had to use Spotify through Wine […]

12 July 2010
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Ubuntu Developer Week kicks off today

The Ubuntu Developer Week is back and at it again for another fun-filled, action-packed week of learning and education on how you can contribute to Ubuntu and become an exciting developer. Developers are in shortage […]

12 July 2010
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Search for and Add PPA’s from the terminal

One goal on the Ubuntu Software Centre’s roadmap is to add the ability to search for and add other users’ PPA’s. In the mean time we’ve seen other helpful tools spring up – such as […]

11 July 2010