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uWriter is a Basic Word Processor for Ubuntu Phone

If you own an Ubuntu Phone or Tablet and miss having access to a basic offline word processor, you'll want to check out uWriter.

30 October 2016
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Keep An Eye On Your Disks With SpaceView for Ubuntu

This site seems to have a thing for disk space menu bar apps of late. Joe even misquoted a well-known saying in a recent post, noting that “you wait ages for one disk usage indicator to arrive, and then […]

28 October 2016
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Linux Mint 18.1 To Offer a More Useful Screensaver

Linux Mint is making it lock-screen a little more useful, adding music and volume controls and MPRIS track data.

28 October 2016
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Papirus Icon Theme Scores Big October Update

The Papirus Icon pack has been updated with new icons for 0ad, Sound Juicer, Harmony music player, and Skype for Linux Alpha and many, many…

27 October 2016
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Deezer, Hype Machine Plugins Added to Harmony Music Player

Like a Spice Girls' solo career, I'll keep this post wonderfully short: a new version of the Harmony music player is available to download.

27 October 2016

OverGrive is a Google Drive Desktop Client for Linux

If you’re looking for a way to sync your Google Drive to your Linux desktop, the following app may be worth a look. It’s called OverGrive and it’s a closed-source, paid application. But don’t let that […]

27 October 2016
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Linux Marketshare Is Above 2-Percent For Third Month in a Row

The latest stats from analytics companies show Linux is maintaining a marketshare of over 2% — but is it what it seems?

27 October 2016
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New Video Shows Changes Headed to Unity 8

A new YouTube video claims to show an ‘quick overview of what’s to come to Unity 8’ in a future update. Uploaded by Kugi Javacookies (not sure if that’s his real name), the clip is described as offering a […]

27 October 2016

Awwh, This Linux Wallpaper is Adorable

It's a desktop wallpaper. With a penguin. Using a terminal. In the dark. And it's adorable.

26 October 2016
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Video Call Improvements Land in Skype for Linux Alpha 1.11

Skype has released a new update to the Skype for Linux Alpha client. Skype for Linux Alpha 1.11 includes “many new features and improvement”, with support for setting an avatar in group chats; performance improvements during video call and […]

26 October 2016
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‘GNOME To Do’ App Picks Up New Features

GNOME To Do is one of those apps you’ve probably heard of, but do not use. And with a bunch of rivals task managers and to-do list apps available on Linux — from Simplenote to Remember the Milk — and online, the […]

26 October 2016

Desktop Gmail App WMail Scores a Sizeable Update

There's a new stable release of WMail, the app that describes itself as "the missing desktop client for Gmail".

26 October 2016