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Inside the OMG! Ubuntu! office

Over the last few days I've been posting a few photos of our new office, a space in the Centre for Innovation at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand thanks to The Distiller. The guys and gals on our Facebook page have enjoyed the photos, so I figured it'd be a good idea to post a few of them here for you guys to have a look too.

17 February 2011

Share your feedback and ideas for OMG! Ubuntu! via Get Satisfaction

Good news, everyone! As part of our increasingly important goal of including our readers in more and more of what we do, we've now set up a Get Satisfaction page for you to share your ideas, ask questions and report issues with OMG! Ubuntu! and other Ohso products. Make the jump for the juicy details.

17 February 2011

OMG! Ubuntu! Facebook page desktop competition

This week we are running a desktop screenshot competition on our Facebook page. The top five desktops as chosen by our panel of judges will be published in an article on OMG! Ubuntu! for all the world to see. Hit up the break for details on how to enter.

6 February 2011

The OMG! Ubuntu! Guide to the Best Indicator Applets (Updated for 11.10)

The default desktop of Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal will not support traditional GNOME panel applets as many of us have become accustomed. In their place sit 'Application Panel Indicators' - a new breed of notification area entries designed to be consistent and unified in look and function thus leading to a desktop more in tune with itself and with its users.

18 January 2011

LCA2011 – Who’s keen for an OMG! Ubuntu! reader meetup?

With Linux Conference Australia 2011 less than a week away, and with over 700 attendees converging on Brisbane for 5 days of Linux talks, sessions and workshops, it's about time I mentioned our reader meetup.

18 January 2011
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Stepping back in time: The evolution of OMG! Ubuntu!

We've had many different looks over the life of this site, so I figured it would be pretty cool to see how the website has evolved over the past year, especially for those who have just started following. Half a dozen screenshots of the site evolution after the break.

9 September 2010
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Designing the new OMG! Ubuntu! site

As promised, in this post I discuss the new website design, decisions I had to make, trade-offs and the process I went through to establish a nice style. You also get some "behind the scenes" images and information on the history of how the design was born over the last few months! Click through to read the full article in all its glory!

3 September 2010
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Doing the LoCo-Motion with OMG! Ubuntu!

Ubuntu is all about community. A community that is distributed all around the world. If anyone should be given credit for spreading Ubuntu (Canonical Marketing Teams and the general media excluded) then it should be […]

9 August 2010
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Seif Speaks: Interviewing the OMG! Ubuntu! guys

This is a guest post by Seif Lotfy well known for his work on Zeitgeist, Sezen and the Elementary project. If you treat him nice, you might see more posts by him in the future.

3 August 2010
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July’s most popular posts on oMG! Ubuntu!

It’s August the 1st already! Geesh… time flies when you’re busy blogging! Here are the 10 most read posts here on OMG! last month. The best advert for Ubuntu you’ve probably never seen… OMG! Ubuntu! […]

1 August 2010
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Quickly install PPA’s mentioned on OMG! Ubuntu! with this neat installer

Installing applications and PPA’s mentioned on OMG! Ubuntu! is just about to get super-easy. We feature a boat load and then some of PPA’s on OMG! Ubuntu! and our preferred way of you installing those […]

27 June 2010
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OMG! Ubuntu! Reader Desktops

There are some awesome screenshots of desktops in the OMG! Ubuntu! Facebook group so I thought it would be cool to post ten of the coolest ones here for you guys to admire, ask questions about […]

12 June 2010