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Back home & back to blogging!

Noticed a lack of posts the last three days? Apologies but I’ve been on a short weekend break thus sans the familiar trappings of Ubuntu and copious cups of coffee! If you’ve sent me an […]

18 April 2010
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Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 Released

The second, and final, beta release of Ubuntu 10.04 has been released. Whilst major new features or drastic changes are now a thing of the past, the beta still brings with it improvements all round, […]

8 April 2010
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OMG! Interviews: Chris Johnston from the Ubuntu Beginners Team

Once again we’re back for another week, which means it’s another Wednesday where we feature someone in the Ubuntu community and ask them a few questions. This week we’ve got the pleasure of talking to […]

31 March 2010
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Gwibber in Lucid: Adding More Columns

Short post to help people get the most out of Gwibber as a lot of readers keep asking me “How I got a ‘multiple columns/tweetdeck style’ Gwibber?”. 1. Default Gwibber This is how Gwibber looks […]

28 March 2010
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Xubuntu 10.04 Beta 1 remains borderline irrelevant

Although not many readers of OMG! Ubuntu! use Xubuntu I thought it’d be polite of us to check in with the Xubuntu team and see what was going on in their forthcoming release of Xubuntu […]

28 March 2010
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OMG! Interviews: Laura Czajkowski

At OMG! Ubuntu! we’ve decided some consistency might be in order, so we thought we’d try our hand at profiling and interviewing one upstanding Ubuntu member each week to give you lucky readers a personal […]

24 March 2010
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The Ubuntu Manual Project needs you!

Because the readers of OMG! Ubuntu! have been so kind to the project over the last couple of months, we’ve picked you guys to help us ensure the high quality of the manual so it’s […]

22 March 2010
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Typography wallpaper creates a wallpaper using your installed fonts

Typography wallpaper is an awesome little script created by Dave Child that generates a wallpaper using your installed fonts – using a different font and character each time it is run. Download First download the […]

19 March 2010
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Apologies, Pandaol & Tetris.

Hello, I know some of you are fearing that the launch of our new IRC channel has been the cause in a slowdown of new posts over the last few days but let me assure you that […]

18 March 2010
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OMG! Redesign: Submissions so far

Since launching our, for want of a better term, ‘OMG! Blog! Idol’ yesterday we’ve received a veritable sack-load of submissions and ideas — thank you so much people!  Although nothing is going be decided on just […]

15 March 2010
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Unleash your inner sysadmin with AjaXplorer

Hello good people of the oh-em-gee communitee! My name is Benjamin, otherwise known as humphreybc. For those of you who haven’t heard of me I’m a 19 year old kiwi Computer Science student studying in […]

15 March 2010
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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