I've changed channel and tuned in to a different video player: mpv. The fork of a fork of player is a surprisingly nimble alternative to VLC.
If you regularly work in a dark room, and find your dimmed screen is still too bright, you may want to this open-source screen dimmer app a try.
Ubuntu OTA 15 has been released, and is being rolled out to all supported Ubuntu Touch devices. As we previously reported, Ubuntu OTA-15 is primarily bug fix and security update, and addresses issues with loading […]
Looking for parallax wallpaper, animated wallpapers, or a cute clock wallpaper app for Ubuntu — why not combine them all in one stunning background?
Last week brought word that a DiRT Rally Linux port will launch next month — but you might have been stalling, wondering what the system requirements for the racing game might be? Well, we’ve some more information. Or, […]
A new version of the immensely popular GNOME extension ‘Dash to Dock’ is now available. The extension moves the GNOME Shell application launcher bar (known as the ‘dash’) from the overview window and places it on the […]
The view from the top of Glastonbury Tor is breathtaking. You can see for miles and miles across multiple counties in a stunning 360-degree panorama. When I visited I (naturally) couldn’t resist trying to capture the impressive view. Wanting […]
Microsoft says older versions of the Skype desktop client will stop working from March 1, as the VoIP service 'transitions' from P2P to cloud technology.
Busy weekend? Us too, but you can get up to speed with what's happened in our roundup of recent Linux app updates, including Skype and WINE.
The world's first official Ubuntu Tablet was announced a year ago today. But are buyers of the Bq Aquaris M10 still using it, and what support can they expect going forward?
LibreOffice 5.3 was released recently, and among its features is an experimental Microsoft Office style Ribbon toolbar layout. And you may be wondering how to enable it. Well, we’ll show you how to enable the notebookbar […]
Want to install LibreOffice 5.3 on Ubuntu? We're gonna show you how to download and install it using a single Snap command — no PPA required!
Competitive rally racing game DiRT RALLY is officially headed to Linux, the games porting supremos Feral Interactive has announced.
KDE Plasma 5.9 is now available in KDE Neon User Edition. The latest stable release of the popular desktop environment, Plasma 5.9 was released at the beginning of February. It brings a number of new […]
If you’re looking for a simple way to quickly capture desktops and add a few annotations, we’ve found an app that you’ll want to try. Shots (stylised as –shots, but we’ll drop the dashes for this […]
I’ve recently started using KDE Plasma again after several years of only poking around in GNOME-based desktops, e.g. Unity, Budgie, Cinnamon, etc. While I wouldn’t say I’m fully orientated in K Desktop Environment land just yet I […]
LibreOffice 5.3 is now available to download, and The Document Foundation is calling it 'one of the most feature-rich releases in the history of the application'!
Snappy, Canonical's new app distribution and package management system, is now available to users running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.