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.
The latest update to the YouTube Unity Lens adds Flash-free playback of videos in VLC (if it's installed) when clicking on a video result. Dapper.
The Kazam Screen-recording tool is currently undergoing a through refit - and adding some awesome new features along the way.
The fantastic folks over at Spanish blog ‘Ataraeo‘ have put together a nifty a lens for browsing YouTube’s library of videos straight from the Dash. The package, a YouTube ‘Scope’ (the search engine bit) and […]
As previously announced Spotify on Linux now supports free accounts but the current stable release of the Linux client does not yet offer the newer features such as Spotify Apps. Spotify recently released a beta version […]
Kazam Screen recorder is a useful tool for all kinds of activities, so we were sad to hear that it had issues running in Ubuntu 11.10. Thankfully developer David 'Big Whale' Klasinc has picked the application up, dealt with its dependency issues and parked it inside a PPA for easy installation in Ubuntu 11.10.
A new stable release of 'Nuvola' music player - formerly known as Google Music Frame - is now available for download. Nuvola 1.0 adds a number of additional features and improvements to the desktop-integrated player, including support for Grooveshark, 8Track and Hypemachine.
A large portion of you reading this post will be doing so in the Linux RSS reader app 'Liferea'. The good news for you folks, as well as anyone else looking to read their RSS feeds through a desktop client, is that a new version of the application was recently released.
A new version of Ubuntu tweak - the popular third party app for customising Ubuntu - is available for download. Ubuntu Tweak 0.6, which has been 2 years in the making, sports a new look and plenty of new features.
With the browser market dominated by Firefox, Chrome and Internet Explorer you could be forgiven for thinking that small browsers have little to offer. But Qupzilla, a multi-platform Qt-based web-browser, is worth taking for a spin. It boasts features comparable to Chrome and Firefox, yet uses less resources than either.
We take a look at the Linux Deepin Software Centre - an application that is as user-friendly as it is beautiful.
Firefox 9 is now ready for download. The latest update to the flagship open-source browser from Mozilla adds: – Improved JavaScript performance Support for querying Do Not Track status via JavaScript Support for font-stretch and text-overflow Improved standards support […]
Accessing your virtual Windows desktop has just gotten easier in Ubuntu with the launch of VMWare View Client for Linux. The application allows easy connection to remotely-hosted servers running Windows. Although it's unlikely that Joe User will have much need for the tool its availability on Linux is nevertheless a welcome one.