A few days ago we blogged about a simple wallpaper slideshow generator called, somewhat un-surprisingly, ‘wallpaper slideshow’. Well… forget that application as the following wallpaper slideshow maker is easily more capable, configurable and darn-right cool. […]
Users buying the new limited edition Lynx toy from the Canonical store will also be helping to save real Lynx’s in the process. Ubuntu’s parent company Canonical are donating a portion of each Lynx toy […]
The official Ubuntu.com website has finally gone live with its new re-branded design. Take your time to poke around the site as every page has been updated and rejigged. Several months back OMG! reader Warren […]
Seif Lotfy is a fun-loving Zeitgeist and Elementary hacker at large who is a bit low on funds, like most people. Unfortunately he’s *so* poor that he can’t even afford a laptop to work on […]
We seem to be having a browser week here at OMG! towers – posts on Chrome taking a massive chunk of Firefox’s Linux share AND shaking off the beta tag, noting Midori 0.2.6 being released […]
Google Chrome for Linux has finally become ‘stable’. The first pre-alpha release of a native Linux build of Google’s new web browser was made nearly a year ago on June 4th. The pace of development […]
A new project inspired by the Mandriva Control Centre aims to bring sanity to system configuration on Ubuntu. Called the ‘Ubuntu Control Centre’ — or UCC for short — it delivers system configuration options to […]
QT web browser Rekonq is to add support for Chrome extensions – allowing thousands of already-made extensions to run out-of-the-box — all thanks to the work of KDE developer Nikhil Marathe. Rekonq, tentatively marked as […]
A new release of TinyGrab inspired screenshot application ‘LookIt’ has been released — adding Imgur support & a slick monochrome tray icon for better integration with Ubuntu 10.04. The entire app runs via an application […]
Sharp eyed reader Papukaija sent us a tip that Skype has been added to the Lucid Partners repository. While we can’t be too hasty in assuming what that means about the rumors about Skype going […]
Between the 10th and the 14th May, 2010, I hit up the lovely country of Belgium to attend the Ubuntu Developers Summit for the Maverick Meerkat release. I was one of 60 lucky people from […]
Edit: See bottom of post for newest update with oversized icons fixed It sounds impossible, yet it seems to be true! I’ve complained a bit about Evolution before, both about behavior and looks, in hopes […]