radio apps

Gradio 5.0 Released with Background Play, Improves Station Discovery

An new release of Linux radio app Gradio is now available to download, and from reading its change-log it sounds like an update that’s worth tuning in for. If you haven’t heard about the app before, you’re […]

27 December 2016

Essential Guide: 21 Must-Have Apps for Ubuntu Users

My list of the best Ubuntu apps showcases top Linux software, tools and utilities that will enhance your productivity and make your system more fun to use.

26 December 2016

Merry Christmas To All Our Readers

As I write this it’s still December 24. Thus, you don’t need me to tell you that it’s Christmas (and if you do: invest in a coffee maker, cos you really need to smell some!). Yup, tomorrow […]

24 December 2016
steam winter sale

Steam’s Winter Sale arrives with deals on Linux games

The Steam Winter sale 2016 is now live with plenty go gaming discounts, deals and price drops. In this post we share some of our favourite deals now the sale has started.

22 December 2016
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How to Install the Latest OpenShot Release on Ubuntu

Yesterday saw an all-new release of popular open-source video editor OpenShot, which touts support for 4K video editing, performance improvements of up to 10x the previous release, and some natty new title templates. Keen to try […]

22 December 2016

LibreOffice ‘Ribbon Interface’ Called MUFFIN, Gets Detailed

“Microsoft Ribbon UI Coming to LibreOffice” shouted we last week, as we told you about the (experimental) ‘Notebook Bar; interface in testing in the latest development builds of LibreOffice, the hugely popular open-source office suite. Today, The Document Foundation who […]

22 December 2016
openshot 2.0.6 beta

Openshot 2.2 Released With 4K Editing, Improved Performance

It’s been a few years since the OpenShot Kickstarter campaign end successfully, but progress on the ‘next generation’ version of OpenShot has been, for various practical reasons, a little slow. But this year the open-source non-linear video editor has (thankfully) […]

22 December 2016
apps

Recent Linux App Updates Round-Up, incl Temps and Vivaldi

A number of nifty Linux apps we’ve written about previously have shared some updates over the past few days. Rather than write about each of them individually we thought we’d round-up them up into one […]

19 December 2016

Bundle Stars Winter Sale Offers Big Discounts on Top Linux Games

It’s December, which means the Steam Holiday sale is now only a few days away. But y’know what? Forget about that! Thanks to Bundle Stars you can snag some seriously festive Steam deals on some […]

19 December 2016

12 Months, 12 Images: This Was Ubuntu in 2016

There were a number of big Ubuntu news stories in 2016, as you’re already aware. But a number of  smaller events and milestones throughout the year help to put the Linux distribution’s year into a broader context. […]

19 December 2016
gnome recipes

GNOME Recipes Serves Up Some Tasty New Designs

GNOME developer Matthias Clasen is back to share another slice of news on his GNOME Recipes application — and it’s starting to look really delicious! Since our last look at the open-source recipe app for Linux, […]

19 December 2016
Spotify Notify-OSD

Never Miss a Desktop Notification Again With This Indicator

Hate missing desktop notifications on Ubuntu? Well, with the Recent Notifications indicator you don’t need to. This handy tool collects and collates all desktop notifications you receive, regardless of whether you see them or not. Then, with […]

18 December 2016