Reporting on the latest Linux software releases, app updates and command-line tooling – new features, performance improvements and critical bug fixes for scores of popular Linux applications you can run on Ubuntu.
The GRUB menu animating/themeing application ‘BURG’ received a PPA update today resulting in some changes to how you install themes. If you have yet to install BURG then you can skip this article and follow […]
Instant Messaging client ‘Emesene‘ slipped a new release out on Monday but what’s new in it? Aside from bug fixes all round – which even the team themselves admit “we’re too lazy to write ’em […]
The Opera development team have given all Linux users something to smile about this fresh new years day – the Pre-Alpha of Opera 10.5! Opera 10.5 Pre Alpha looking pretty “Blazingly fast” First impressions are […]
Songbrid has gained video playback capabilities in the beta for forthcoming 1.5.0 release “Led Zepplin”. Video formats/codecs supported so far are WMV, MPEG-4, Theora and H.264, though the songbird team themselves note that “support is […]
Ubuntu Tweak – a popular tweaking application for Ubuntu – funnily enough – today launched its new website, which can be found at http://ubuntu-tweak.com/. Website + App = Amazing! The new website, to be known […]
Mirage is a automatic playlist generator for popular media player Banshee. After scanning your music collection, Mirage will then “queue” up a selection of songs based on the choice of tracks you ask it to […]
Linux Twitter application ‘Pino’ may be a relative new-comer to the desktop, but today saw it’s first stable release. We reviewed Pino a few weeks ago and were left suitably impressed. The development since then […]
Opera 10.5 pre-alpha was released as an early XMAS present for Windows and Mac users early last week but Linux users were seemingly left out in the cold. However the reasons for the delay in […]
OpenTumblr is a desktop application for posting and uploading files, photos, etc, to your Tumbr account. I’ve blogged about OpenTumblr before [see here and here] but the latest release slipped out the door a few […]
Version 0.4 of photo management/editing application Shotwell has been released – a day after we featured it as one of our 12 best applications of 2009. Nothing like timing! New Stuff A short overview of […]
Rhythmbox is sometimes over-looked when the virtues of Ubuntu music players are discussed. Perhaps people assume that because it is the default that it only provides “the basics”. As we’ve shown you here on Omg!Ubuntu! […]
Over the last few days Docky has gained some new features and additions. Notably a 3-D mode and Extensions support. You can find out how to enable 3-D mode here. In this post we’ll be […]