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6 Google Chrome Ubuntu Themes (Radiance, Ambiance, Elementary, Dust etc)

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 […]

15 March 2010
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Pinta 0.2 Released, bags 5 new tools, new effects (.deb)

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 – […]

15 March 2010
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Unleash your inner sysadmin with AjaXplorer

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 […]

15 March 2010
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Help us redesign OMG! Ubuntu!

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 […]

14 March 2010
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Ideas: Smarter Window Management for Docky

Docky. I love it. So when Herr Gabriel e-mailed me with his suggestion for improving multiple application window management in Docky I must admit that I was certainly interested. “Since Docky is able to indicate […]

14 March 2010
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Last week top posts (AKA – the ‘What you might’ve missed’ edition)

If you lead a busy life, don’t visit OMG! every day or just generally find more interesting things to do than monitor this blog (highly unlikely, right?) then you might’ve missed some of this weeks […]

14 March 2010
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First peek at Gwibber 3.0?

I don’t fully know the story behind this screenshot – OMG! reader danyR kindly punted it my way – so all i know so far is that it appears to be recent (13th March) and […]

14 March 2010
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Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.3 Released with improved Window button switching

Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.3 has been released today with improved metacity button switching options in response to Ubuntu 10.04 and its “controversial” window button placments. Switching the buttons from right to left now just takes one […]

14 March 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 Icons Re-Coloured Purple

With the familiar brown tones of Ubuntu of yore being replaced with vibrant purple hues in the recent re-branding, the ‘purplification‘ of the default icon set had to occur sooner or later. Well, some icons […]

14 March 2010
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Lucid Sound Applet Gets Improved

One of Benjamin Humphrey’s “16 things to improve in Ubuntu 10.04” concerned Lucid’s new-look sound applet – a small, square, inconsistent little box. Some of his gripes were: – The slider is too short and […]

13 March 2010
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Ubuntu 10.10 Release Schedule

The release schedule for the next +1 version of Ubuntu – the as-yet unnamed Ubuntu 10.10 ‘M’ – was put up on the Ubuntu Wiki a few days ago. The release dates are as follows: […]

12 March 2010
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Preview of LightSource – But just what the frakk is it?

David Nielson has become OMG!’s very own Banshee “news canon” of late by keeping us up-to-date on the latest and greatest developments to arguably one of the best media applications around. Now he’s got something […]

12 March 2010