Reporting on the latest Linux software releases, app updates and command-line tooling – new features, performance improvements and critical bug fixes for scores of popular Linux applications you can run on Ubuntu.
The latest stable release of Ubuntu Tweak is now available, adding to its already impressive roster of features a new desktop and application recovery options. In the announcement on the release the Tweak-team say: – “Desktop […]
With so many competing IM and chat services you end up using by accident or intention – from GTalk when you log into GMail to Facebook when you login to Facebook – it’s by no means unusual […]
The battle of the super-light launchers rocks on as the latest release of Alawalk 0.4 struts out into download land. Alawalk is an incredibly useful tool – see here for our comprehensive rundown of what […]
With so many visually important Ubuntu updates landing today it was nice to find something else non-Ubuntu related amongst them. Users of the Chromium Daily Builds may (or may not have depending on level of observation!) […]
Y’know, detractors aside, it has been a wee while since I last (t)wittered on about a Twitter app. So what’s new with Turpial, one of my favourite clients that is both light and feature-filled? I […]
The latest version of TinyGrab inspired screenshot tool ‘Lookit’ has hit beta status and is on the look out for the brave and the bold amongst you to do some testing… New features There are plenty of […]
Customizers rejoice: the latest experimental build of Dropbox now respects your installed icon set. This means users no longer need to manually replace them with theme-akin replacements. “We have changed the names of our tray icons […]
Ever the hard worker F-Spot maintainer Ruben Vermeersch announced on IRC that he intends to continue the 0.8 branch of F-Spot as an LTS series. Furthermore as of yet unannounced major changes are coming in […]
Where would we be without Ubuntu Tweak? Arguably one of the most popular applications for end-users it just keeps on giving. A new backup feature will be showing up in the next stable release and […]
The latest version of open-source flash player ‘Gnash’ boasts that ‘100% of all YouTube videos’ should now work using it. Gnash can be run as a standalone application or as a plugin for most popular […]
The latest version of photo manager Shotwell has developed into something pretty with plenty of new features and enhancements, including: – Migration support for F-Spot users: Shotwell can now import photos directly from F-Spot, including […]
The latest development version of Wine 1.3.x has been released. Wine 1.3.1 sees everyone’s favourite none-an-emulator add: – Support for drag & drop between X11 and OLE. Support for favorites in builtin Internet Explorer. Beginnings of a […]
The latest version of GTK webkit based web browser Midori has clawed its way out of the barn and into release land. New Features In keeping with other popular browsers Midori now has support for […]
A great many of us have to keep Windows knocking around for gaming, work or through the ball and chain of some proprietary software we were learned in. A media player doesn’t exactly fit this […]
A new version of super-slick image utility ‘Rapid Photo Downloader‘ developed into release-land a few days back. The update sees a new netbook-friendly main window, improved translations, and now shows the amount of free space […]
The second Alpha release of open-source on-line file storage (and a lot more besides) SparkleShare has been made available for testing. This release sees many previously reported bugs resolved and plenty more unreported bugs also […]
The first part of the headline above is stolen from Alex Launi’s brilliant surmise on the latest Banshee merge that brings with it improved device detection and (get stoked) iPhone and iPod Touch hardware support out of the box! […]
Official development and support for music-player Songbird on Linux was culled several months back but thanks to dedicated community support Linux users can still keep up with the Joneses and benefit from all the latest fixes n’ […]