KDE bouncing ball

The KDE Ball Widget Bounces Back to Life

What's that boinging sound? Why, it's the sound of AWESOMENESS returning to the Plasma desktop.

14 March 2017

Indicator Bulletin is a Searchable Clipboard Manager for Ubuntu

Clipboard managers are ten a penny on Linux, and you likely have your favourites. But if you’ve been looking for a searchable clipboard manager, check out Indicator Bulletin. Indicator Bulletin is a simple clipboard manager written in Python […]

13 March 2017
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Pidgin 2.12 Released, Drops Yahoo, Facebook Messaging Support

Pidgin 2.12 has been released, and removes several messaging protocols that are no longer being maintained, including Yahoo! and Facebook.

13 March 2017
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Peek Screen Recorder Hits 1.0, Adds Stacks of New Features

Open source animated screen recorder app Peek has hit version 1.0 — and added major new features to celebrate. Screen captures can be exported as animated GIFs, but Peek 1.0 adds WebM and MP4 exporting to the mix, making it […]

13 March 2017

How To Make Ubuntu Look Like Mac (In 5 Steps)

A step-by-step guide for making Ubuntu look like a mac, covering everything from GTK theme and icon set to fonts and desktop docks.

12 March 2017

How To Move GNOME Shell Notifications

The default GNOME notification area is slap-bang centre top of the screen, a position that makes it hard to miss notifications and alerts. But sometimes it’s not ideal. If you’re running an app that sends […]

12 March 2017
feed the monkey rss reader

Feed the Monkey is an Open-Source TinyTinyRSS Desktop Client

FeedTheMonkey is an open-source desktop feed reader for the open-source TinyTinyRSS service.

12 March 2017

Do You Remember the KDE Bouncy Ball Widget?

Laughing as I threw a small red ball around my desktop — that's my earliest memory of using KDE. But what happened to the bouncy ball widget?

10 March 2017
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These are the New Themes Shipping in Firefox 53

Firefox 53 includes two brand new 'compact themes', designed to take up fewer pixels on the screen and give web content more room to show.

10 March 2017
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Kdenlive 16.12.3 Out, Promises to Crash Less Often

A new bug fix release of the open-source, non-linear video editor Kdenlive is now available to download. Kdenlive 16.12.3 is the last release in the 16.12.x series. It brings a handful of important improvements to the […]

10 March 2017

How To Re-Enable NPAPI Plugin Support (i.e. Java) in Firefox 52

Firefox 52 began its roll out yesterday, bringing a bunch of small iterative improvements to the fore. Among the most significant change in the release is the decision to disable support for all NPAPI plugins bar Adobe Flash […]

9 March 2017
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Lockscreen Media Controls, Improved Touch Experience coming in KDE Plasma 5.10

Lock screen media controls are one of several productivity improvements in Plasma 5.10, which is due for release at the end of May.

9 March 2017