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Ubuntu Unity Used By Super Heroes on TV Show

dipinkrishna — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:42:14 +0000

Ubuntu’s Unity interface made a brief appearance in a popular Japanese ‘children’s’ show last weekend. ‘Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters‘ – the latest team in the 36-year strong Super Sentai franchise – can clearly be seen to be running a customised version of Ubuntu Unity desktop on their laptop. Open-source mail-client Evolution is also on show, as is the [...]

ZaReason Android 4.0 Tablet ‘ZaTab’ Shipping Soon

dipinkrishna — Fri, 18 May 2012 14:40:42 +0000

They’re best known for making Ubuntu laptops and PCs but ZaReason are about to dip their toes into fresh waters with the launch of a tablet. But, unlike the rest of their hardware line up, the ‘ZaTab’ doesn’t come with Ubuntu but the tried-and-tested tablet Android 4.0 operating system. ‘Guts’ The lower-end of the tablet [...]

Tom’s Top 5 Apps for Ubuntu

dipinkrishna — Thu, 17 May 2012 14:43:40 +0000

This is a guest post by Tom Slominski, a 15 year old Ubuntu user who ‘loves Linux, open source and web development with a tad of alternative rock sprinkled on top.’ Here Tom runs through his top 5 app picks for Ubuntu. Polly Polly is a multi-column Twitter app for which OMG! readers chose a new [...]

Skype-Wrapper Adds Call Actions, Notification Fixes, Ubuntu 12.04 Support

dipinkrishna — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:41:19 +0000

A new stable release of Skype-Wrapper is available for download. Skype-Wrapper is a small third-party ‘plugin’ that integrates many of Skype’s features directly into the Ubuntu desktop. This includes support for Ubuntu’s Messaging Menu, notification system and Unity launcher. What’s New? With almost six-months between the last release and this, it’s no surprise to learn that amongst the [...]

[How To] Make Chrome Use Native Notifications in Linux

dipinkrishna — Wed, 16 May 2012 14:51:23 +0000

If you use any web-apps or websites in Chrome that provide notification pop-ups on your desktop then you’ll know how out of place they look in Ubuntu. For although Chrome’s notification ‘toasts’ are consistent across all three major operating systems – that is they look and behave the same on Windows, Mac and Linux – they are, unlike, [...]

Ubuntu 12.10 Renaming ‘Update Manager’ to ‘Software Updater’

dipinkrishna — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:38:29 +0000

The question of how best to present and enable software and system updates to users of Linux has resulted in different distributions doing things their own way. The Ubuntu-based Chinese distro Linux Deepin, for example, integrates software updates directly into its Software Center. But Ubuntu uses a Update Manager – a tool that is fairly straightforward [...]

Wil Wheaton: ‘Yo Hollywood, Let Me Download Ubuntu’

dipinkrishna — Tue, 15 May 2012 20:39:06 +0000

Having boldly gone where no-one had gone before, it was no surprise to learn that actor Wil Wheaton is concerned about the erosion of ’Net Neutrality‘ – the principle that all web traffic, users and means of access should be treated fairly and without favour. Illustrating this point in a post on his blog this weekend, the [...]

Ubuntu Forums Get Updated Look

dipinkrishna — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:40:45 +0000

After six long years (i’m making that up, but it does feel like a horrendously long time) the Ubuntu Forums has added a new theme that matches the revamped Ubuntu branding introduced during the Ubuntu 10.04 development cycle. The theme is not enabled default, so you won’t see it when logging in. But it can [...]

Spotify For Linux Adds Tumblr Sharing, Playlist Radio Streams

dipinkrishna — Mon, 14 May 2012 20:38:07 +0000

A minor update to the Spotify Preview for Linux client is available to download. A handful of new features are present in the release, which was originally intended to appear at the same time as the Windows and Mac builds. Sadly, a last-minute build error pushed this back a few days – but kudos for the [...]

Skype Release Minor Bugfix Update for Linux Client

dipinkrishna — Mon, 14 May 2012 14:41:44 +0000

It lives! Skype have issued a small bugfix update to the static package of their Linux client. The hotfix patches a ‘serious vulnerability’ with the ‘libpng library’ present in the static package of the VoIP client. The issue does not affect any other versions of Skype 2.2 for Linux (i.e. the version available in the Ubuntu Software Center). What [...]

UDS-Q Summary: Bye-Bye Unity 2D, Hello GNOME-Shell Spin

dipinkrishna — Sat, 12 May 2012 20:39:06 +0000

Annnnnnd the Ubuntu Developer Summit is over for another 6 months. Five days, 40 hours, lots of beer, frivolity and discussion have lead to a set of potential plans for the Ubuntu 12.10 release. Due to the nature of development not everything intended to happen will. But, pessimism aside, the following list of proposals do all on [...]

How Well Did Your Ubuntu 12.04 Upgrade Go? [Poll]

dipinkrishna — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:41:16 +0000

You’ve had several weeks to settle in to your Ubuntu installs so it’s time to ask those of you who performed a direct upgrade (either from Ubuntu 11.10 or Ubuntu 10.04): ‘How will did it go?’ My own experience of an LTS-to-LTS upgrade went incredibly well, but one users’ take on it does not a [...]

Solve Six Common Gripes With Ubuntu 12.04

dipinkrishna — Sat, 12 May 2012 08:44:14 +0000

Ubuntu 12.04 offers a pretty fantastic experience right out of the box but that doesn’t mean it will be 100% perfect for everyone. In fact there are a few things about it that bug people. Below we’ve listed solutions to six common questions we’ve seen routinely asked in the comment section here on OMG! We’ll [...]

Wikipedia Unity Lens Adds Snippets, Thumbnails in Latest Update

dipinkrishna — Sat, 12 May 2012 02:47:15 +0000

The Wikipedia lens for Ubuntu’s Unity dash we wrote about several days back has been updated. Visually the Lens now looks neater, sporting article snippets and thumbnails (where applicable) thanks to use of the ‘card view’ layout available to developers. Multi-lingual users still have no way to specify the Wikipedia locale used by the lens (it currently [...]

Linux, Ubuntu Discussed on Greek TV [Video]

dipinkrishna — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:37:49 +0000

Ubuntu and free-software was the topic of discussion on Greek TV channel ‘Sunny‘ earlier this morning. Nick Kakouros from Greek technology site osarena.net appeared to talk about open-source software, Linux, Ubuntu and the ‘global scale’ of free software within the context of the economy, government, etc. I don’t speak Greek but if you do, and want to see what was [...]