Posts from September 2016

yout youtube playlist player

That App Floats YouTube Videos on the Linux Desktop

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 […]

27 September 2016

Stylish Markdown Editor ‘Typora’ Is Now Available for Ubuntu

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 […]

27 September 2016
Rambox messaging app

Rambox Puts All Your Favorite Messaging Services In One App

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.

27 September 2016
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New Version of Audacious Music Player Released

A new version of Audacious, a popular lightweight audio player, is now available for download.

27 September 2016
etcher disk burning app ubuntu

Etcher Image Writer Is Now Better Than Ever

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 […]

27 September 2016
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Firefox Reader Mode is Finally Getting a Keyboard Shortcut

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, which is […]

26 September 2016
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Indicator Sound Switcher Makes Switching Audio Devices on Ubuntu a Snap

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

26 September 2016
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3 Awesome Themes For Plank, The Linux Dock App

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 […]

26 September 2016
radio apps

GTK Radio Player ‘Gradio’ Gets New Beta Release, Gains New Features

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 […]

25 September 2016
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Linux Twitter App ‘Corebird’ Now Supports Longer Tweets

An updated version of the open-source desktop Twitter client Corebird is available for download.

25 September 2016
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No, Google Hasn’t Killed Chromecast Support in Chromium Linux Builds

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. Firstly, Saturday […]

25 September 2016

Watch The Bq M10 Ubuntu Tablet Running OTA-13

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.

23 September 2016