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Official ubuntu 10.04 countdown banners available

Official Ubuntu 10.04 countdown banners are now available. The 3 designs, created by John Baer, Immanuel Peratoner & Amanda Warzecha respectively, are perfect displayed on blogs and website as well as being a handy reminder […]

7 April 2010
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Handy Docky crash script Makes the bleeding edge Mum-proof!

If, like many, you enjoy being on the bleeding edge of Docky’s development you’ll more often than not find it crashes and/or hangs. Sometimes this requires you to manually kill it in-order to relaunch it. […]

6 April 2010
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Lyrebird renames to Nightingale; Songbird for Linux lives on

Songbird for Linux, whilst officially no-longer supported, will continue to live on thanks to a community driven effort. The project, which was originally titled Lyrebird, finally has a definitive new name: Nightingale. Very apt. The […]

6 April 2010
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Stunning Ubuntu Logo Panel icon coming to desktop?

The screenshot above was sent to me by OMG! reader Dave and shows the new Ubuntu logo finally being used within Ubuntu itself. The Netbook Edition/Remix has typically been the first to show off some […]

6 April 2010
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Now that looks familiar: Buttons switch to their final ordering in Lucid

Now that looks a bit more familiar…   Yes, just as Mark Shuttleworth announced in his ‘Buttons staying left, but order changing’ announcement, Ubuntu 10.04’s buttons have finally positioned themselves where they intend to stay […]

5 April 2010
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mind control support may be coming to compiz

Always feared that controlling Compiz with the power of thought alone was something only available for Jedi’s and Sylar from Heroes? Think again. (Bad pun. BAD pun.) Kristopher Ives over at santiance.com is going to […]

5 April 2010
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Emesene 1.6.1 released; still the best msn client for linux

The latest, and likely last, version of MSN messaging ‘clone’ Emesene 1.x has been released. We’ve raved on and on and on and on about Emesene in the past and for good reason. If you’re […]

5 April 2010
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Is Gwibber getting a new icon?

Not definite but it is indeed curious that the Gwibber twitter avatar has been replaced with this shiny new icon: – The icon isn’t that far removed from the current icon either: – It still […]

4 April 2010
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Lyrebird: from the ashes of songbird

Although official support of Songbird on Linux will cease a community maintained version will continue – as we mentioned on our previous post. This version now has a (likely temporary) name: Lyrebird. It’s early days […]

4 April 2010
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GNOME Shell: System status area mockups

GNOME 3 ” and the Shell it brings – won’t be the big bad many fear and as work on it progresses more concepts and interface designs are coming out that will surely help abate […]

4 April 2010
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another round of ‘”Hey! I only just noticed that new icon”

A more befitting Transmission icon finally landed. It feels like i’ve been following the bug report for this for an age and then some… Also pleased to see the ‘elevated privileges’ icon get a spiffing […]

4 April 2010
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Clementine: The Ghost of Amarok 1.4 in qt4

Clementine music player is a port of Amarok 1.4 with many features rewritten in Qt4. We love trying anything new at OMG! towers so after spotting Clementine mentioned in a comment by reader Heepie in […]

4 April 2010