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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Unity Tomboy Lens Makes Searching, Opening Your Notes Easy in Ubuntu

Tomboy is Ubuntu's default note-taking application - and a pretty good one at that. Developer Rémi Rérolle thinks so too, and wrote in to share word of his 'Tomboy' Lens for Ubuntu.

9 November 2011
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LibreOffice 3.4.4 Released With Numerous Bug Fixes

The Document Foundation have announced the release of LibreOffice 3.4.4 - an updated version of their popular open-source office suite.

9 November 2011
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Firefox 8 Officially Released

Firefox 8 might have been 'out in the wild' for a few days, but today marks its official release. Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10 will automatically upgrade to Firefox 8 at some point in the coming days - no PPAs or downloads necessary.

8 November 2011

Emesene Not Connecting? Here’s A Quick Fix

The developers of popular third-party MSN client 'emesene' have warned that some users may experience login issues with the stable version of the client. But fear not - there is a temporary fix available that should tide you over until the issue is sorted.

8 November 2011
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Banshee Adds DVD Playback

It might be getting the ol’ heave-ho from the default application set in Ubuntu 12.04, but Banshee still has a lot to give. For example, the most recent release of Banshee, version 2.3.1, added in […]

6 November 2011
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Unity Bliss: An Alternative Application Lens for Ubuntu

Unity's Application Lens is pretty much perfect: you can search apps by text, or by category. Simple stuff, right? Well it's not simple enough for those who prefer the more traditional approach to application-menu structure. To that end the maintainer of the Unity Application Lens, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen, has put together an GNOME Menu inspired alternative. A lens he's called 'Unity Bliss'.

5 November 2011
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GEdit Dash Plugin Released

Just a short update to those who helped Seif with Gedit stats earlier this week: his wdashboard overview start page for Gedit is available to download.

3 November 2011

Word Game ‘Tanglet’ Gets Refreshed Visuals, Difficulty Settings

If it seems like it was only last week that I mentioned Boggle-style word game Tanglet - and that's largely because it was. But my timing in highlighting the app was ripe: Tanglet has just been updated with improved graphics and new game-play feature.

2 November 2011
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Mumbo Jumbo Games Land in Ubuntu Software Centre

A selection of game titles from software publisher MumboJumbo have landed in the Ubuntu Software Center.

31 October 2011
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‘Scratch’ Text Editor Sees First Release

The first stable version of the elementary project's text editor 'Scratch' has been released - and you don't need to be running elementary OS to use it. Scratch, written in Vala and Gtk+3, is similar to other text editors such as Gedit, but adds in additional user-friendly features that elementary project's apps are known for.

31 October 2011
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Linux YouTube App ‘Minitube’ Updates, Adds Social Features

A new version of flash-free desktop YouTube app ‘Minitube’ has been released. The bulk of the changes concern Mac OS X Lion users (as the app is cross-platform) but there are few goodies that Ubuntu […]

30 October 2011
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Remind Yourself of Anything: Nifty Timer Applet for Unity

Kettle's on! Pizza's in the oven! Only 23 minutes until a new episode of Inspector Spacetime - all are situations where keeping an eye on the time is important. Now hopefully you're not like me (i.e. useless at doing so) but, should you be, then TeaTime is a neat Unity-launcher based alarm applet that works wonders.

28 October 2011