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.
Indomitable screenshot tool Shutter sees the releases of a new version today that sees it add a slew of welcome new features including: – Ability to “redo” screenshot New speech bubble shapes in the editor […]
Pino twitter application has updated itself with two very important fixes Spell check Fixes the missing cursor in entry field issue The Pino application website also has had a minimal makeover. Looking good! Install Pino […]
Shotwell is a photo management and editing application that is fast gaining popularity. Today Yorba, the team behind Shotwell, announced the release of version 0.5.0 which sees the application gain many new features including photo […]
Pinta is a simple GTK drawing and graphics editing programme modelled after Windows application Paint.NET. New Features Version 0.2 has just been released adding the following features to the tool-set: – 5 new tools – […]
Ubuntu Tweak 0.5.3 has been released today with improved metacity button switching options in response to Ubuntu 10.04 and its “controversial” window button placments. Switching the buttons from right to left now just takes one […]
Banshee will be releasing yet another version of itself very shortly (supposedly today) bringing some new features to the party. Gapless playback? Check. Wikipedia integration? Check. YouTube suggestions?! Check! Demo gnomeuser from the Ubuntu forums […]
Shutter will be gaining a new ‘redo last capture’ tool in its next major release. The feature, already available in the ‘experimental’ branch allows a user to takes exactly the same screenshot again and again […]
OpenShot – OMG! Ubuntu!’s favourite video editor for Linux – released a new version today. Version 1.1 brings with it a buffet of new features, speed improvements and general all round greatness that we’ve come […]
Earlier today we wrote about Twitter application Pino getting updated and today sees it joined by a new beta release of premier KDE twitter application ‘Choqok’. The main new features in this version are: – […]
Twitter application Pino has graced the world with yet another update. Version 0.2.1 of the every-improving microblogging client sees it gain user look-up and information tools as well as chucking in the ability to follow […]
Pino 0.2 was released was released a few hours ago, adding a slick roster of new features. Experimental Features The new features are: – Identi.ca support Multi account support Conversation view Single instance mode Option […]
Midori 0.2.3 has been released to the wilds and a jam-packed release it is too! Midori?! What the frell is that? It’s a GTK+ based Webkit browser that is extremely fast and extremely awesome. It […]
CoverGloobus – an awesome application for displaying cover art and lyrics on your desktop – quietly released version 1.6 at the beginning of this month. If you’ve been reading the blog for a while chances […]
A few weeks back we blogged about ‘GNOME VLC Player’, a native GTK+ spin of VLC with the mission to have a “simple” interface inside a gtk+ body. That project has since been re-named ‘GNOME Media Player’ and […]
The Ubuntu Manual project today released the first Alpha of the highly popular and eagerly anticipated “beginners guide”. We interviewed the Ubuntu Manual project leader Benjamin Humphrey a few weeks back (see here) so if […]
Pino Version: 0.1.5 Pino (a twitter application We’ve blogged about many times previously) has added URL shortening, options to specify how many statuses to display, fonts, start up mode and quite a bit more in […]
A quick heads up for fans of Docky, the super-slick, super-flexible desktop dock for Linux: the latest update adds ‘spacing’ between launchers and docklets when running in Panel Mode. The image below gives you a […]
GWibber 2.29.1 comes with an awesome new look – a reduced sidepane, a new accounts window and an input box on show by default! Install You can get the “new look” gwibber via the Gwibber […]