Section: Download

Numix Square icon set on Ubuntu desktop

Ubuntu Desktop Looking Dull? Try Numix Square Icons

Numix Square icons give your Linux desktop a soft, streamlined and modern appearance. We show you how to install Numix Square icon set on Ubuntu.

22 August 2017
dual shock 4 battery level extension

PS4 Controller Battery Level Extension for the GNOME Desktop

Using a DualShock 4 controller on Ubuntu? If so, you may find the following GNOME Shell extension a handy thing to have to hand. It’s called ‘Dual Shock 4 battery percentage’ and in an unexpected […]

21 August 2017

A Linux File Manager Built Using Electron

We’ve written about plenty of Electron apps, from music players to e-mail clients, code editors and chat tools — but the following tool the first Electron file manager we’ve come across! It’s called JumpFM and it’s described as a ‘minimalistic […]

20 August 2017
musixmatch desktop app on ubuntu

The MusixMatch Desktop Lyrics App Is Available for Linux

This weekend I learnt that the Musixmatch desktop app is available for Linux!  Not that Linux users are short of desktop lyrics apps, mind. We’ve written about several before, including ‘Instant Lyrics’ and ‘Lyricfier’, and […]

15 August 2017
latte dock

Latte Dock 0.7 Released with Wayland Tech Preview

A new version of Latte Dock is available to download. The popular desktop dock is designed for, but not exclusive to, the KDE Plasma desktop. The official release announcement lists many of the salient changes, […]

14 August 2017
the atom text editor snap app on ubuntu 17.04

Atom, Visual Studio Code Updates Available to Download

Github's Atom text editor and Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) both have updated versions available to download.

14 August 2017
qmmp audio player screenshot

How to Install Winamp inspired Qmmp on Ubuntu

In this post we will show you how to install Qmmp on Ubuntu. Qmmp (which stands for Qt Multi Media Player) is an open-source audio player built using C++ and Qt. It’s not the kind […]

11 August 2017

Firefox 55 Released with Big Performance Improvements

Firefox 55 features a number of welcome improvements in memory usage and startup time, and offers 'search suggestions' in the URL bar.

8 August 2017

Firefox Nightly — How To Go Hands on with the Newer, Faster Firefox

The hype around Firefox 57 is building fast. In this post we show you how to get an advance hands-on with it using Firefox Nightly.

7 August 2017

Random Wallpaper GNOME Extension

A week or so ago we mentioned a neat Bing Wallpaper changer extension for GNOME — and boy did you make it known that Bing isn’t your preferred source of desktop wallpapers! And so we’re back for another […]

6 August 2017
hyper terminal star wars theme stormtrooper

Star Wars Themes for Hyper Terminal

Star Wars fans can use the The Force to assist them with apt upgrades and exiting vim thanks to a new set of terminal themes from a Github far, far away… Designed for Hyper, the terminal emulator […]

31 July 2017
libreoffice app icons

LibreOffice 5.4 Released with ‘Significant New Features’

A major new release of the hugely popular open-source office software LibreOffice is now available to download. LibreOffice 5.4 serves as the final major release in the LibreOffice 5.x series (meaning LibreOffice 6.x will be next). […]

28 July 2017