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Want to get quick, at-a-glance details about your connected drives while on Ubuntu? A new indicator applet aims to help. UDisks-Indicator is a small panel-based applet that shows disk usage information about mounted partitions. It’s being developed by the…

A new version of Spotify Web Player for Linux, a desktop app that integrates the web-based version of the music streaming site with your Linux desktop, is available to download.…

If you find yourself wishing your Ubuntu desktop had a splash more color do check out the two icon themes featured inside. This post, 2 Very Colorful Linux Icon Themes, Both Newly Updated, was written by Scott Bouvier and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Sneaking out alongside the main Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 release are beta builds from the rest of the Ubuntu family. This post, Ubuntu 16.10 Flavors: Beta 2 Downloads Now Available, was written by Joey-Elijah Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

The first (and final) beta release in the Ubuntu 16.10 Yakkety Yak development cycle. What's new? We take a look… This post, Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 Now Available to Download, was written by Joey-Elijah Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Looking for a neat-o way to play YouTube playlists on your desktop, outside your browser? Take a looksie at Yout, an Electron app that lets you add and watch YouTube playlists on your desktop, floating window stylee. Yout is not the most user-friendly of…

In the market for a desktop markdown editor for Linux? You may have helped but notice that you’re rather spoilt for choice. From Abricotine and Scratch to Simplenote, Springseed and Remarkable. Even Gedit can render markdown with the right plugin! With so…

It may sound like a memory-management tool, but Rambox is actually a handy way to group all of your messaging and e-mail services in one window.…

A new version of Audacious, a popular lightweight audio player, is now available for download. This post, New Version of Audacious Music Player Released, was written by Joey-Elijah Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

Back in may we spotlighted Etcher, a stylish open-source USB image writer app for Windows, macOS and Linux. In the months since our feature the app has released a over 10 small beta updates, with Etcher 1.5 Beta being the most recent release at the time of…

Among the changes which arrived in the September release of Firefox 49 were an enhanced set of Reader Mode features, including spoken narration and line-width spacing options.  All very welcome. But the improvements aren’t stopping there. Firefox 50,…

Indicator Sound Switcher makes it easy to switch between multiple audio input and output devices on the Ubuntu desktop.…

Plenty of people use the desktop dock Plank on their Linux desktop — and for good reason. Plank is a nimble, customisable desktop dock for Linux desktops. It supports Unity quick lists, app badging (aka ‘unread counts’), and hover effects;  it…

A new beta release of the desktop radio player app GRadio is available for download — and it’s broadcasting a wealth of changes.  Developer Häcker Felix says the next major stable release needs to deliver ‘a rock-solid stable base for the next…

An updated version of the open-source desktop Twitter client Corebird is available for download. This post, Linux Twitter App ‘Corebird’ Now Supports Longer Tweets, was written by Joey-Elijah Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.

This week a horde of angry, pitchfork-waving readers descended upon the e-mail inbox of both OMG! sites, demanding to know why we weren’t writing about the “shocking evil” Google is waging against the open-source community. SHOCKING EVIL, PEOPLE.…

Ubuntu OTA-13 rolled out earlier this week with some nifty new features in tow, and you can see them in action in the following set of videos.…

Talking Clock is a simple bash script that makes Ubuntu tell you the time out-loud on the hour or at a custom interval. This post, Make Ubuntu Speak The Time On The Hour, Every Hour, was written by Joey-Elijah Sneddon and first appeared on OMG! Ubuntu!.