Ubuntu 10.04 will ship with a new open-source Nvidia driver called Nouveau. Whilst only providing 2D support the driver allows Nvidia users to take advantage of several new features within Ubuntu 10.04 such as the […]
With the release of Lucid Lynx not that far away, over here at OMG! Headquarters we’ve been planning our release party. We were just going to have an old fashioned booze up but luckily we’ve […]
Panflute is a GNOME panel applet for controlling music playback and displaying playback information. The successor to the popular GNOME Music Applet, Panflute boasts many features its predecessor doesn’t including a seek bar and support […]
Shotwell is a photo management and editing application that is fast gaining popularity. Today Yorba, the team behind Shotwell, announced the release of version 0.5.0 which sees the application gain many new features including photo […]
Thanks to an aptly titled reader called SuperMatt we now have an IRC channel. Feel free to chime in whenever — can’t promise I’ll always be on there (i have posts to, well, post) but I’ll try. […]
The repositioning of window button controls in Ubuntu 10.04 has undoubtedly been one of the most ‘controversial’ decisions taken by the OS team period. They change can seem both trivial – they are just window […]
Since launching our, for want of a better term, ‘OMG! Blog! Idol’ yesterday we’ve received a veritable sack-load of submissions and ideas — thank you so much people! Although nothing is going be decided on just […]
Ubuntu many be getting a visual refresh for 10.04 but don’t expect an audible one as well. The system sound theme will likely be staying the same – and not on purpose! A commenter on […]
Despite Google Chrome/Chromium being able to use native GTK colouring the results are more often than not disappointing. Thus getting Chrome to blend in with your desktop works best when using Chrome Themes. Ubuntu Chrome […]
Pinta is a simple GTK drawing and graphics editing programme modelled after Windows application Paint.NET. New Features Version 0.2 has just been released adding the following features to the tool-set: – 5 new tools – […]
Hello good people of the oh-em-gee communitee! My name is Benjamin, otherwise known as humphreybc. For those of you who haven’t heard of me I’m a 19 year old kiwi Computer Science student studying in […]
With the release of Ubuntu 10.04 literally just around the corner it’s once again time to think about giving OMG! a visual refresh. Whilst previous designs were literally borne from chaining myself to my desk […]