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.
Pinta, the open-source drawing/editing program modelled after Paint.NET, has hit version 0.3. I must’ve been busy in the potting shed or hand-gliding when they pushed it out as this release totally slipped me by! With […]
Clementine music player — which we previously dubbed the Ghost of Amarok 1.4 — slipped out a new release a few days back, adding a veritable punnet of new features, bug fixes and translations. New […]
If like many you’ve been looking for the perfect lightweight desktop twitter client then you may have come across Turpial. It’s fast, lightweight and has many of the features users look for in a twitter […]
Users of desktop feed-reading application Liferea can be alerted to new RSS updates via the Ubuntu Messaging Menu thanks to a patch by the very cool Maia Kozheva. Download The patch is due to go […]
The latest testing version of popular cloud storage service Dropbox has introduced indicator applet support and, what will surely be music to icon-set makers ears’ everywhere — the ability to finally customize the dropbox tray […]
Lucid users missing their fix of desktop album are and slick file previews need miss no-more – CoverGloobus & Gloobus-Preview are now available for Lucid via the relevant PPA’s. Cover Gloobus We’ve mentioned/loved/raved/enteradjectivehere about Gover-Gloobus […]
Minitube — the flashless desktop YouTube player — has hit version 1.0. Fixes n’ features include: – Ability to play Full HD (1080p) videos Ability to copy the YouTube link and the video stream URL […]
Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.4 has been released to the wild bringing with it a few Lucid-friendly features and tweaks. Login settings One great new feature is the option to choose which background and which logo appears […]
The latest release — very nearly stable as of writing – of AdSense Earnings Monitor has been released with notable new improvements — including a nicer interface, new options, sound support and an ‘About’ dialog […]
Instant messengering application Emesene has added indicator applet support for its’ tray icon. This will help Ubuntu 10.04 users and Emesene benefit from a consistent panel experience. Ahhh! The sweet smell of consistency! Article originally […]
Twitter application Pino pushed out another release today, adding improved indicator applet support and support for custom tray icons. As always you can install/update Pino by adding the following PPA’s: – sudo add-apt-repository ppa:vala-team/ppa sudo […]
The latest — and arguably greatest — version of desktop dock application AWN has been released. This version sees a massive array of new features and improvements — largely down to the complete re-write this […]
The latest, and likely last, version of MSN messaging ‘clone’ Emesene 1.x has been released. We’ve raved on and on and on and on about Emesene in the past and for good reason. If you’re […]
It seems that a week can’t go by without the superhuman development team behind desktop Twitter app Pino releasing yet another update. And we’re certainly not complaining! This weeks’ update sees the awesome twitter application gain a […]
The beta of Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 (aka ‘The Ubuntu Manual’) was released earlier today at exactly 0000 UTC on the 31st. Over the last two weeks the Manual team have been working absolutely […]
The latest stable release of media player Banshee was released today. Although users of Banshee 1.5.6 (the most recent release) won’t see that many changes by updating, users of the last stable release – 1.4 […]
Version 1.0 of lightweight image viewer Viewnior – which reached number 5 on our 12 top applications of 2009 – was released yesterday. It’s still easy to see why. Not only is Viewnior lightening fast […]
The first stable release of GNOME Media Player – formally GNOME VLC – is now available. This release sees the fresh-faced newcomer gain support for 3 engines (VLC, Xine and GStreamer) for playing media, with […]