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.

11 Useful Utilities To Supercharge Your Ubuntu Experience

Whether you're a relative novice or a seasoned pro, we all want to get the most from our operating system. Ubuntu, like most modern OSes, has more to offer than what is presented at first blush.

26 November 2014

Firefox Switches to Yahoo! for Search, Ubuntu Builds Not Affected

After 10 years of using Google as the default search engine in Firefox, Mozilla has announced that Yahoo! will replace it from December.

20 November 2014

Native Linux Twitter App ‘Corebird’ Impresses With Latest Release

In just a few short years native Twitter clients for the Linux desktop have become an endangered species.

18 November 2014

LibreOffice 4.3.4 Released With 60 Bug Fixes, v4.4 Shaping Up Nicely

Two weeks on from the last update, The Document Foundation is back with yet another minor release of its open-source LibreOffice productivity suite.

14 November 2014
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Intel Graphics Installer Updated, No Longer Makes Xorg Go Kaboom

The Intel Graphics Installer for Linux no longer performs major xserver-xorg upgrades. Ubuntu 14.10 support is due to arrive in December.

12 November 2014
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Tomahawk Music Player Returns With New Look, Features

After a quiet year Tomahawk, the Swiss Army knife of music players, is back with a brand new release to sing about.

5 November 2014

Mozilla to Launch Brand New Developer Web Browser Next Week

When you woke up this morning you probably didn't expect to see the words 'New' 'Mozilla' and 'Web Browser' writ large online.

3 November 2014

Pitivi 0.94 Switches to GTK HeaderBar, Squashes Bugs Galore

Open-source NLE video editor 'Pitivi' has switched to using a space-saving GTK HeaderBar and app menu button in its latest beta release.

3 November 2014

Russia’s ‘Yandex Browser’ Launches First Linux Beta, Is No Chrome Clone

You don't need to be Russian to have heard of Yandex, the country's leading search engine, but you will need to speak the language to use its branded web browser, which has just launched in beta on Linux.

31 October 2014

How to Install and Setup ‘My Weather Indicator’ in Ubuntu 15.10

There's no drought of ways to be kept abreast of the weather on the Ubuntu desktop and My Weather Indicator is one of the best.

28 October 2014
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Firefox 33 Stable Rolls Out With Search Suggestions, OpenH264 Support

Mozilla Firefox 33, the latest stable update to the widely popular open-source web browser, is now rolling out on Ubuntu.

14 October 2014

How To Use Steam Music Player on Ubuntu Desktop

'Music makes the people come together' Madonna once sang. But can Steam's new music player feature mix the bourgeoisie and the rebel as well?

2 October 2014