Placeholder koala image

CoverGloobus 1.6 "WOW!" lives up to its name

CoverGloobus – an awesome application for displaying cover art and lyrics on your desktop – quietly released version 1.6 at the beginning of this month. If you’ve been reading the blog for a while chances […]

18 February 2010
Placeholder koala image

UbuntuOne Music Store Lands in Lucid. Sorta.

The UbuntuOne Music Store landed in Lucid today. Well, sorta. It’s hard to be patient; Click to view larger An initial “place holder” plug-in arrived but upon selecting the ‘Ubuntu One’ option in the sidebar […]

18 February 2010
Placeholder koala image

Cool Changes to Transmission In Lucid

Transmission is my preferred torrent client so I’m pretty stoked to see it not only get indicator applet support in Lucid but also a shiny new icon too! Transmission 1.90 The 1.90 series of the […]

17 February 2010
Placeholder koala image

Lucid Software Centre Adds ‘Featured’ Gallery, PPA View

A few small-ish updates to the Software centre just landed in Lucid – but ones that hint at much greater things to come. Featured First up is a new ‘section’ called ‘Featured’ accessible from the […]

17 February 2010
Placeholder koala image

Guayadeque Music Player: Light, Unique, Awesome?

Guayadeque Version: 0.2.5 It may have a name like an exotic fruit but Guayadeque music player is a surprisingly powerful new addition to the Linux music player scene. Light on resources and heavy on features […]

17 February 2010
Placeholder koala image

Elementary Theme Getting New Metacity

We love the Elementary theme here at OMG! and we know a large chunk of you do, too. If you’re not using the incredibly awesome eHomosapien metacity chances are you’re using the default Elementary metacity. […]

17 February 2010

Ubuntu Single Sign On Launched; Looks Very Humanity

Canonical today announced the launched of ‘Ubuntu Single Sign On’ – a service designed to create a one-stop location for logging in and accessing Ubuntu and Ubuntu-related services such as UbuntuOne, The Ubuntu Music Store […]

16 February 2010
Placeholder koala image

Lucid Gets New Icons For Rhythmbox, UbuntuOne, MeMenu, More

Some updates to the default Humanity icon theme just landed in Lucid including some shiny new icons for Rhythmbox, the MeMenu/status, battery and trash bin, amongst others. I almost feel like saying “Spoilers below”. Do […]

16 February 2010
Placeholder koala image

Gnome VLC player gets new name, PPA

A few weeks back we blogged about ‘GNOME VLC Player’, a native GTK+ spin of VLC with the mission to have a “simple” interface inside a gtk+ body. That project has since been re-named ‘GNOME Media Player’ and […]

16 February 2010
Placeholder koala image

Facebook Friend Graph Plots Connections Between Your Social Contacts

Ever wanted to see the connections between your Facebook contacts: Who knows who and via whom? ‘Facebook Friends Graph‘ does just that. “[Facebook Friends Graph] …Creates a graph of user’s Facebook friends highlighting mutual connections […]

15 February 2010
Placeholder koala image

Lucid Has A Sexy New Volume Indicator

The volume ‘applet’ in Ubuntu will become an ‘indicator’ applet in Lucid. That’s more info that you really need to know. What’s important is that it looks hella sexy: –   For comparisons sake here’s […]

12 February 2010
Placeholder koala image

Rhythmbox Cover Art Browser

Ever wanted to browse your music collection via cover art in Rhythmbox? Say hello to the ‘Art Display Browser’ plug-in by Manuw2009. not my theme; yes that it rhythmbox Features Once installed the cover-art mode […]

12 February 2010