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…and the other changes.

Over the last day or so there has been a veritable flood of little refinements to the odd icon here, a revision in wording there and some really awesome changes slap-bang in the middle of […]

26 March 2010
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Ask Ubuntu’s Jono Bacon Whatever You Like – Weekly!

Ubuntu Community Manager Jono Bacon’s live interactive Ubuntu community videocast ‘At Home With Jono Bacon‘ is moving to a new weekly slot from next week. The show, broadcast on ustream.tv, sees Jono discuss the latest […]

26 March 2010
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Messaging Menu Adds running application indicators

How many times has an IM conversation popped seemingly out of nowhere after you were sure you had closed Empathy? In an update to the messaging menu today you will finally be able to tell […]

25 March 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 in focus: Empathy

The default messaging client in Ubuntu 10.04 remains Empathy and although it has some detractors still smarting over the switch from perennial favourite Pidgin Empathy remains a fully capable and easy to use messaging client. […]

25 March 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 Radiance/Ambiance Personas for Firefox

Having just reinstalled Ubuntu 10.04 I couldn't help but notice how "un-integrated" Firefox looks in the default set up. But this mismatch can be remedied by applying custom 'personas' - Firefox themes - to the browser.

25 March 2010
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Ubuntu around the world: KanchiLUG

For the Ubuntu Manual Project, we are aiming to have our final product available in over fifty languages. This means that we have to have a lot of translators and translating teams. Luckily, the good […]

25 March 2010
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Guayadeque Adds Slick New Player controls

Call me petty but i’m loving the new buttons Guayadeque is rocking out with in the latest updates. Very nice! It’s particularly awesome to see Guayadeque continue to push forward in crafting a distinctive look […]

25 March 2010
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Help Stop the BBC Introducing DRM

UK users of OpenSource software could be restricted from watching and accessing free-to-air television signals if the BBC are granted permission to introduce DRM into their broadcasts. The result will make the use of non-sanctioned […]

24 March 2010
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The Awesome Wallpapers of pr09studio

If you read OMG! regularly you’ll likely be aware that there a few community artists/designers/themers that we really dig (DanRabbit, Mastropino and ZacBarton to name but a few.) Well the pantheon of win is about […]

24 March 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 Installation Slideshow Gets Updated

We’ve blogged previously about the new-look installation slideshow (designed by Dylan McCall, Michael Forrest and Otto Greenslade) that will greet all users installing of Ubuntu 10.04 – but today finally saw it get pushed into actual […]

24 March 2010
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Why Docky’s GMail Docklet Doesn’t currently work in Ubuntu 10.04

Although popular Dock application Docky is available in the repositories of Ubuntu 10.04 one of the most popular Docklets, for it, the GMail notifer docklet, doesn’t currently function in Lucid. Whilst entering your user credentials […]

24 March 2010
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OMG! Interviews: Laura Czajkowski

At OMG! Ubuntu! we’ve decided some consistency might be in order, so we thought we’d try our hand at profiling and interviewing one upstanding Ubuntu member each week to give you lucky readers a personal […]

24 March 2010