Most desktop e-mail clients share the same interface layout and feature set making them great for people with lots to manage but not so great for just using e-mail as e-mail. About a week back we interviewed Elementary project lead and Ubuntu designer Dan Rabbit. We spoke/probed him about a few things - the full interview of which is going up shortly - but we were finally given sanction to talk about an exciting new addition to the roster of Elementary inspired applications:
Our lovely friends over at ArmDevices.net nabbed themselves a great interview with Canonical’s ‘Partner Engineer’ Jerone Young who discusses the challenges and opportunities optimizing Ubuntu for ARM is bringing. It’s a great interview well worth […]
Sometimes we all come across a word that leaves us biting our lips, creasing our brows and looking all out perplexed. Desktop application ‘Artha’ makes copy n’ paste n’ searching for a definition a thing of the past; just highlight the word, press a key combo and a Ubuntu Notification bubble pops up with the definition.
If you’re a heavy user of PPAs then every now and then you will come across missing GPG key errors that will need to be fixed. Fixing missing GPG Key errors in Ubuntu is, actually, […]
Minitunes, the new music player from the creator of desktop YouTube application MiniTube, sees it’ first official release today, developer Flavio Tordini has just announced. MiniTunes uses Qt and Phonon, makes use of either GStreamer […]
Scrobble Rhythmbox plays to your Libre.Fm account using the ScrobbleFree Rhythmbox plug-in. Libre.Fm is a free and open-source replacement for last.fm founded in 2009, and still under development, the service was forged on the principle […]
I have an ever burgeoning lmental list of things I’ve always meant to post and the following has been one of them. The GNOME foundation provide Amazon referral links for your browser. That is, every […]
As the 10.10 development cycle rolls along various user-created themes are submitted for potential inclusion in the ‘Community Themes’ package. The popular Impression themes have been available for a few cycles now but, for Maverick, […]
Linux users are already spoilt for choice when it comes to free online cloud storage. UbuntuOne and Dropbox both offer 2GB for nothing whilst newly announced project SparkleShare aims to better both of these. If […]
Compiz 0.9 was released for testing earlier today and see the widely used compositing manager benefiting from a major re-service having been completely rewritten in C++. 0.9, an unstable branch of Compiz that will eventually […]
We’ve not really covered badass Zeitgeist powered semantic File Browser ‘Sezen’ much before here on OMG! before and, y’know, I’m at a loss as to why. A simple way to describe the lightweight but not-a-traditional-file-browser […]
Free and fully Open Source Flash implementation ‘LightSpark’ sees the release of a second release candidate today. Lightspark 0.4.2 sees the following additions and improvements, as listed on the official announcement: – YouTube support for […]