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LibreOffice 5.3.3 Released, Works Better with Microsoft Office Documents

LibreOffice 5.3.3 is now available to download. This point update to the LibreOffice 5.3.x series is aimed at early adopters and includes many bug fixes.

11 May 2017
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OpenShot 2.3.2 Released with Various Bug Fixes

A new release of the open-source video editor OpenShot is available to download. The update fixes 'a few big issues', according to its developer.

11 May 2017

The WordPress Desktop App Is Blazingly Fast, But It’s Not For Me

Are you a blogger? If so you may be interested to know that the open-source WordPress desktop app is now available as a Snap app. Released on Linux, Windows and macOS late last year, the WordPress desktop app is […]

11 May 2017
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Official Ubuntu T-Shirt for ‘Zesty Zapus’ Is Now Available to Buy

The official Ubuntu 17.04 ‘Zesty Zapus’ t-shirt is now available to buy from the Canonical store. Canonical release a new mascot tee twice a year. Each shirt bears the animal motif of the latest release on the front, […]

10 May 2017
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Open-Source Video Trimmer App VidCutter Sees Big Update

A big update to VidCutter, an open-source video trim, split and merge app, is available to download. VidCutter is a cross-platform Qt5 app for quick video trimming/splitting and merging video clips without the need to re-encode. The app is powered […]

10 May 2017
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Corebird Twitter Client Is Now Available as a Snap App

Tweet, tweet: Corebird, a popular GTK Twitter client for Linux, is now available to install as a Snap app. At the time of writing this is not the latest Corebird 1.5, released last week, but the older […]

10 May 2017
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Thunderbird Email Client Finally Has a New Home

The future of Thunderbird is looking a little more certain. It's been announced that the Mozilla Foundation will serve as Thunderbird's "future home".

10 May 2017
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How To Upload Photos to Instagram from Your Ubuntu PC

If you want to upload photos to Instagram from Ubuntu, you can! The photo sharing site now lets you upload photos without using the official Instagram app.

9 May 2017
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Ubuntu’s Default GTK Theme Now Looks Better with GNOME Shell

Ubuntu is working to improve the appearance of the Ubuntu Ambiance theme on GNOME Shell, adding window shadows, round corners and more.

9 May 2017
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Cinnamon 3.4 Released, Here’s How To Install it on Ubuntu

Linux Mint’s Clement Lefebvre has announced the release of Cinnamon 3.4, the latest stable update to the rather popular Linux desktop environment.  Better yet you can already upgrade to or install Cinnamon 3.4 on Ubuntu using a PPA […]

9 May 2017
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Mark Shuttleworth Says Ubuntu Desktop “Remains Really Important”

Mark Shuttleworth has reiterated that the Ubuntu desktop "remains really important" to Canonical in an interview with The Cube at the OpenStack Summit 2017.

8 May 2017
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My Current Ubuntu Desktop (And How You Can Recreate It)

As you may have heard me mention in the latest episode of the Ubuntu Podcast, I’ve been ankle deep in GNOME extensions these past few weeks. Why? Well, like many of you I have made a preëmptive switch to GNOME Shell now that Unity is […]

8 May 2017