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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
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You made the right decision Guay’s – New Guayadeque icon in action

Excuse the bad pun, but I’ve been poking around with the music player Guayadeque this morning. A week back OMG! readers chose the new icon for it and you know what? You guys chose the […]

12 March 2010
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Preview the new Installation slides for Ubuntu 10.04

The proposed slides for inclusion in the Ubuntu 10.04 installer have been made available to preview on line. The slides, which play during installation of Ubuntu, have been redesigned to fit in with the new […]

11 March 2010
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Ubuntu Software Centre Gets Brand New Look for Lucid; Paid software to feature soon?

The Ubuntu Software Centre in Ubuntu 10.04 got a new look store front today, trading its old colourful drapes for elegant whites and greys. Note: Clicking on the pictures below will take you a full-sized […]

11 March 2010
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Pinta: A GTK Paint.Net clone for Ubuntu

One application many new users of Ubuntu bemoan the lack of when first using Ubuntu is a simple drawing and editing program akin to Microsoft’s Paint. Pinta aims to fulfil that gap by providing a […]

11 March 2010