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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Gnome 3.0, which is due to bring the love/hate Gnome-Shell to users desktops, was originally slated in for a March 2010 release. This may now be pushed back to September 2010 due to the "beta quality" of Gnome-Shell; there is just too much work to be done on it and just not enough time.
Want a rotational, zoom-able globe on your desktop? How about a flying animated star field?! Welcome to QUirky WaLlpapers KDE Edition. Star-Field “plasma-wallpaper-starfield” is a desktop background for KDEthat places an animated starfield over your […]
Xubuntu Karmic has a really nice XSplash animation effect during it’s boot up. It resembles, to me at least, a bunch of swarming fireflies. You can see it for yourself in this dodgy handheld video […]