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.

Find Creative Commons Music Easily With The Jamendo Scope for Unity

Looking for some new Creative Commons music? Before you fire up your browser to search the Jamendo website you might want to try out the following new Unity Scope.

25 November 2013
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Linux Audio App ‘DeaDBeef’ Updates With Interactive Layout Designer

The lightweight Linux audio player DeaDBeeF has been updated, with an interactive new design mode being one of several new features included in the 0.6.0 release.

25 November 2013

Twitter App Turpial 3 Coming Soon With Multi-Account, Tweet Filtering

The Desktop Linux Twitter app Turpial is undergoing something of a regeneration for its upcoming 'Version 3' release.

23 November 2013

Lightworks Linux Build Updated With DVD, YouTube Export Options

The Linux beta builds of professional non-linear video editing software Lightworks has been updated with a wider set of export formats and improved overall performance.

17 November 2013

Maxthon Web Browser For Linux Hits Alpha

Just a couple of months after announcing it was heading to Linux, the popular freeware web-rbwoser 'Maxthon' is now in alpha testing.

17 November 2013

Linux E-Mail App ‘Geary’ Updated With IMAP Fixes

In the first update to popular linux e-mail client Geary - the first since October's major release - a number of issues have been corrected.

12 November 2013

‘Budgie’ Media Player Hatches on GNOME

Budgie is a new lightweight media player for GNOME, using client side decorations to present an attractive front to its nimble core.

7 November 2013
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Why This Unofficial Spotify App Marks Start of Ubuntu Touch ‘Windows Phone’ Moment

A new, third-party app brings the popular music-streaming service Spotify to Ubuntu for Phones.

3 November 2013

Save, Access And Quickly Paste Text Snippets With This Nifty Unity Launcher Tool

Repeatedly typing out certain information - like verbose terminal commands - can be a chore. Thankfully there are tools out there to help.

31 October 2013

Power Up Your App Launching on Xubuntu With ‘Whisker Menu’

Xubuntu offers a great desktop experience, but its stock application launcher is basic. The good news is that more featured alternatives are available, such as ‘Whisker Menu‘ – a third-party app that powers up app launching with a […]

30 October 2013

Linux Twitter App Polly Updated With Minor Fixes

Tweet, tweet: a new update to the popular multi-column desktop Twitter app 'Polly' has been released to the wild.

28 October 2013

‘Polari’ – An Awesome New IRC App for GNOME

You have to hand it to the GNOME designers and developers: their work in creating a coherent, integrated set of apps for the desktop is showing true promise.  In fact, they’ve barely sat still over […]

15 October 2013