Split-panel nautilus tweaks/hacks are incredibly popular but up until now the feature remained a 3rd party enablement. With the upcoming GNOME Shell raising questions as to the purpose Nautilus due to features Nautilus traditionally provided […]
With 2009 drawing to a close we’re getting all retrospectical* here at OMG!Ubuntu! (*That’s not a real word, but it sounds good.) Today we present our second favourite application of 2009 – Gloobus Preview. For […]
Pino is a new-ish Twitter application for Linux with the moto of being “easy and simple” and “fast.” I couldn’t get the ruddy thing to compile back when i reviewed 6 Linux Twitter applications, but […]
The first 3rd party themes for Docky have been made and popped up on Gnome-Look by user mio6. Two themes are included in the package. These are: Bluesmoke: – and Grey: – Download http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Themes+for+Docky?content=117108 Install […]
Popular GTK+ theme ‘New Wave’ saw a new release today. Version 0.8.2 bags itself a ton of changes and improvements, including improved text colour on statusbar, tooltips, etc, and restyled frames for various applications. […]
Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha 1 was released late last week and although very little cosmetically has changed, we’ve pointed out the obvious changes below. Update The Installer The Ubiquity installer comes with one notable […]
Chrome extension "YouTube-HTML5-ifier" replaces the flash-based YouTube player with a HTML5 video tag – thus giving you native video playback without the need for a CPU hungry Flash plugin! The extension can’t show any flash-reliant […]
“On the first day of Xmas Gwibber gave to me, my social networks in a tree…” Tree-view, that is. Yes, Gwibber 2.0 introduced a revamped UI alongside other changes earlier this year – all designed […]
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Although we here at OMG! Ubuntu! are Ubuntu fans (shock, right?) it’s always interesting (and a bit exciting) to take a look at what else exists out there, in the wild waters of alternative operating […]
The title says it all, really. A PPA for 64bit Ubuntu users to get the latest Adobe Flash plugin from. In light of the recent malware issues from .deb’s on gnome-look.org I’ve checked over these […]
We’re massive fans of Dock application ‘Docky’ here at OMG! Ubuntu! and one of the principle designers working on it is a young man with a wonderfully conceptual imagination by the name of ‘Dan Rabbit’. […]