Posts from August 2017

Flat Remix Icon Theme for Linux

Flat Remix icon theme is — faux gasp — a flat icon theme for Linux desktops (mainly those using GNOME) with broad application coverage. Check it out!

9 August 2017
Ubuntu mouse by Shannon Black

A Small Unity Feature Missing in GNOME Shell [Video]

A world of change is headed to Ubuntu as the distro switches from Unity to GNOME Shell. Long time Unity users accustomed to the workflow, feature set and quirks of Ubuntu’s incumbent releases will need […]

9 August 2017
Manokwari desktop shell for GNOME

Hands On With Manokwari, a GNOME Desktop Shell Built Using HTML5

It's not often I get to write about a new desktop shell — especially one I've never heard of! So when a reader told me about Manokwari, I had to try it.

8 August 2017

Notes, the Mac-Inspired Note Taking App, Has Been Updated

Remember that Mac-inspired Notes app we mentioned well over a year ago? Well it just received a big ol’ update, and we reckon some of you will want to know about it. The new release is […]

8 August 2017

Firefox 55 Released with Big Performance Improvements

Firefox 55 features a number of welcome improvements in memory usage and startup time, and offers 'search suggestions' in the URL bar.

8 August 2017

Firefox Nightly — How To Go Hands on with the Newer, Faster Firefox

The hype around Firefox 57 is building fast. In this post we show you how to get an advance hands-on with it using Firefox Nightly.

7 August 2017
Google Chrome for Linux

[How To] Fix The Google GPG Error on Ubuntu

We show you how to fix the 'failed to fetch' apt error caused by Google changing the key it uses to sign its Linux repo.

6 August 2017
green recorder 3.0 screenshot

Green Recorder 3.0 Released, Lets You Export Screen Recordings to GIF

A new version of the Wayland compatible screen recording tool Green Recorder has been released. Green Recorder 3.0 adds a number of notable new features that help bring it parity with other screen recorder tools that […]

6 August 2017

Firefox May Be Getting a New Logo

Firefox 57 is shaping up to be one of the browser's biggest and most important releases in its history — but might it also bring an update logo?

6 August 2017

Random Wallpaper GNOME Extension

A week or so ago we mentioned a neat Bing Wallpaper changer extension for GNOME — and boy did you make it known that Bing isn’t your preferred source of desktop wallpapers! And so we’re back for another […]

6 August 2017
dock

Phew, Ubuntu 17.10 Will Have a Desktop Dock (Of Sorts)

If you were worried Ubuntu 17.10 would use a vanilla GNOME Shell desktop, you can relax. Ubuntu says the release will have a desktop dock.

4 August 2017
pretty ping graph

Gping is like regular ping, but shows a graph too

The ping command is a useful way to troubleshooting network issues — but its output does look a little dull by default. Enter Gping, a cross-platform ping tool that prints a pretty graph inside the […]

4 August 2017