Section: Apps

Here you can discover the latest Linux apps, software and system utilities to use on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and related distributions, from office suites and music players to dev tools and CLI scripts for getting things done.

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Opera 11.10 “barracuda” Beta released

The first beta release of Opera 11.10 'Barracuda' is now available for download with an improved speed-dial page, automatic Flash installation and few other odds and ends.

18 March 2011
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Never miss a birthday again with Birthday-Aware for Ubuntu

Trying to keep tabs on everybody's birthdays is a pain if, like me, your brain tends to shelve dates away in a dusty box rarely to be accessed... Hallelujah then for Birthday-Aware - a small python application that uses Ubuntu's Notification bubbles to remind you of approaching birthdays.

16 March 2011
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Picapy: Desktop ‘Picasa Web’ file browser for Ubuntu

Managing your Picasa Web photos without opening a browser or installing Google's Wine-friendly Picasa Photo editor is possible using Picapy - a python based file browser for Picasa Web albums.

15 March 2011
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Contractor brings seamless file sharing between apps to the Linux desktop

Contractor is new 'sharing service' developed by Allen Lowe for the elementary project. It allows applications to push data and/or files to other applications without the applications needing to be hard-coded to do so. Think of it as a middle man that relieves both applications of having to work with each other - they just need to work with Contractor.

14 March 2011
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Multi-touch app ‘Touchégg’ hits version 0.2, adds more gestures, actions & GUI

The latest version of 'Touchégg' - the multi-touch gesture creator for Linux - has added in further gesture and action support along with a nifty GUI gesture manager.

14 March 2011
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Free AutoCAD clone ‘DraftSight’ hits Linux Beta

A beta release of professional 2D CAD application 'DraftSight' is now available for Linux users to download.

11 March 2011
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Receive Ubuntu Desktop Notifications on your iPhone with Pronto

iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch owners need never miss an Ubuntu desktop notification again with Pronto: an Ubuntu notification forwarding system for iOS.

11 March 2011
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Scrivener for Linux gets official beta release

An official Linux beta release of popular writing application Scrivener is now available for users to try. What is Scrivener? Scrivener is popular word processing application designed for writers and, until recently, exclusive to Mac […]

2 March 2011
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Easily upload photos to Facebook in Ubuntu with ‘Starry hope Uploader’

Starry Hope Uploader makes uploading photos to your Facebook profile easy. Once open, just drag and drop your images onto the uploader, choose or create an album for them to be part of and hit upload. Further info, download instructions and more are inside.

28 February 2011
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Badschemer .deb for Ubuntu

Further to our post calling for help in creating an Ambiance theme for Gedit in Ubuntu 11.04, developer Shnatsel has packaged Badschemer - a GtkSourceViewer 'style' editor - into a .deb installer for easy-as-pie installation in Ubuntu.

26 February 2011
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Postler – elementary’s e-mail application released

The first release of the long awaited e-mail client from the elementary project is now available.

26 February 2011
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How to add a detailed battery indicator to Ubuntu

For as long as I am able to remember the Battery indicator in Ubuntu has, for me, been just shy of useless. Whilst it pictorially displays my battery charge it hasn't been able to provide me with anything more: all I get for enquiring further is a never-changing 'estimating...' menu entry. Thankfully an alternative indicator-shaped solution is available...

25 February 2011