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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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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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QuickShot – from a sketch to an application in 3 weeks.

There’s an old saying “Use the right tool for the job” – common-sense advice that applies to pretty much any situation – especially in Software. But what happens when the ‘right tools for the job’ […]

3 March 2010
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The Future Of Nautilus

Nautilus – the default file manager in Ubuntu – has an interface many consider to be awful and overly complex. It has button after button, toolbar after toolbar, menu after menu – and just looks, […]

28 February 2010
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GBrainy – Brain Training in Ubuntu

The games selection in Ubuntu underwent a rethink for Ubuntu 10.04. Out are the masses of endless games no-one uses and in are a intelligently picked handful that people do. Gbrainy Once of the new […]

25 February 2010
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Plugin To Let Emesene Use The Ubuntu Messaging Menu [Updated]

Give Emesene the power of Messaging Menu interaction. Kinda. By ‘kinda‘ I do, of course, mean that this plug-in is still in development and as such some things don’t quite work. Namely clicking on an […]

20 February 2010
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How To Install Nvidia Drivers Manually in Ubuntu

Installing Nvidia drivers manually isn’t as big of a deal as it sounds. It’s literally a few button pushes, a round of “Ok”, “Ok”, “Ok” and a reboot. In many respects it’s the easiest way […]

8 February 2010
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Firefox 4 Theme For Linux – Tabs on Top, Tab Peek, Lots More!

With Firefox 3.6’s release earlier today you may be falling in love with your browser all over again – especially thanks to the integration of ‘Personas’. A month or so back we posted the mocked […]

21 January 2010
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Clutter-Flow Is A CoverFlow Plugin For Banshee

Clutter-Flow brings a CoverFlow interface to Banshee – allowing you to browse through your music in style. Any Good? The extension uses the Clutter toolkit to provide the graphical interface and despite it currently being […]

7 January 2010
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BluRay Playback On Ubuntu

Setting up BluRay playback on Linux can be a pretty complicated affair with only certain drive models working correctly and reliance on hacked firmware to get things going. The MakeMKV project have come up with […]

6 January 2010
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Live ‘Lernid’ Demo with Jono Bacon Today @ 7PM UTC

Lernid is a desktop application designed for connecting to and participating in online learning events for Ubuntu such as Ubuntu Open Week and Ubuntu Developer Week – all in one application. No more masses of […]

5 January 2010
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12 Days of Xmas: Day Eight

Let me dig out my ‘We love OpenShot’ banner before I start… There we are. Nicely set up. Ahem. Can you guess what app make Day Eight of our top 12 apps of 2009? I […]

24 December 2009