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5 New Chrome Extensions Worth Trying – Twitter, Google Tasks, YouTube enhancer & more

It’s been a while since my last pick of the best Chrome extensions and to celebrate Chromium finally supporting extension “tool tips” here are 5 new “toolbar” extensions to enjoy! Google Tasks Manage your to-do’s […]

7 November 2009
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Match Ubuntu’s Xsplash Background to Your Desktop Wallpaper

Want to change the Ubuntu 9.10’s Xsplash boot screen background to match your desktop wallpaper? You might, but you are likely think “what happens when I change my wallpaper, do I need to do whatever […]

6 November 2009
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NewWave Firefox Themes

I’ve blogged previously about the Dust Firefox theme that seamlessly marries Firefox with the Dust GTK theme. Now it’s the turn of NewWave! Version One – NewWave Firefox Theme There is an official NewWave Firefox […]

6 November 2009
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Experimental OpenShot PPA Launched, No Longer Removes Video Playback

OpenShot – a much loved Video Editor here on OMG!UBUNTU! – today launched a new experimental PPA for people wanting to sit on the bleeding edge of it’s development. FFMpeg Off! The current PPA proved […]

6 November 2009
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Fix the "can’t click on flash" bug in Ubuntu with 1 command

If you’re experiencing the current annoying bug with Adobe Flash not registering mouse clicks (e.g. on YouTube, etc) then you’ll be pleased to hear that there is a relatively easy fix (for now). I must […]

6 November 2009
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Is Karmic Koala Ubuntu’s Vista?

To answer the title: no it’s not, but since the release of Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala only one week ago the blog-o-sphere, forums and opinion-pieces on various sites have been ringing loud with hate, disappointment […]

5 November 2009
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Humanity Style Icons: CheckGMail

Continuing our series on Humanity Style icons for Karmic Applications we come to GMail notifier applet CheckGMail.  Download http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Humanity+for+Checkgmail?content=114881 Install Right click on CheckGMail’s panel icon Select Preferences Check the custom icon boxes under’ ‘System […]

5 November 2009
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KDE 4.3.3 Released – Boasts Nothing Major

This months update to KDE sees a ton of bug fixes and some more translation work. Among the improvements in KDE 4.3.3 are: – Improved KWin effects JuK has been made more stable Konqueror ‘detached […]

5 November 2009
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Ubuntu XSplash Animation – "Human Swarm"

Further to my post on ‘How to use Xubuntu’s XSplash animation in Ubuntu‘ one enterprising reader, going by the moniker of  pezmanlou, turned the cool blue hues of the Xubuntu animation into an ace Ubuntu […]

4 November 2009
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Some More Gnome Panel Clock Applet Styles

I’ve posted some styles for the Gnome panel Clock Applet before and some of you responded with your own in the comments to these posts. Some were really darn good so i’ve made a compilation […]

4 November 2009
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Install UserScripts As Extensions In Chromium On Linux

Chromium (and very shortly Google Chrome) allows UserScripts to be installed in just like extensions! You click on the ‘install’ and the script installs. This means no external “greasemonkey” application is needed to use UserScripts in […]

4 November 2009
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How To Use Custom Backgrounds In Grub2

Grub2 – the default boot-loader for new installations of Ubuntu 9.10 – has some nifty new features – including support for background images and custom font colours. Whilst the previous version of GRUB could also […]

4 November 2009