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.
Pino – the desktop twitter application and not the random anime character – is oft cited (by us, admittedly) as one of the best designed desktop twitter clients presently available. With such a popular look […]
If applications were movie genres then Docky would most certainly be a gore film. The rate at which it haemorrhages new features is bloody impressive. (See what I did there? No… Moving on…) So what […]
Popular music player Banshee has bumped itself up to version1.7.3 today, rolling out with it a fantastic new in-app Amazon MP3 store, Miro podcast directory integration “allowing users to discover, stream, and subscribe to podcasts […]
Avid GNOME Do enthusiasts, fans and fanatical followers may have noticed that the project hasn’t been up to much of late. The last major update we heard from the Do guys was back in March […]
The latest version of open-source flash player alternative Lightspark has been released. This version brings several new features to users including Chrome/ium support, improved sound synchronization and better compatibility with YouTube. Support for Firefox’s ‘out […]
Wine 1.2 stable has finally been released today after more than two years of development. The release sees support for 64bit applications, new Tango-based icons (props to Joel Holdsworth who helped lead the work on […]
Spotify Unlimited subscribers are now able to use the Spotify for Linux preview. Prior to now the preview was only available to Premium subscribers – Spotify’s highest tier package – but in an update today […]
Emesene2, the successor to the popular Windows Live Network-based Instant Messaging application ‘Emesene’, recently launched a testing PPA for foolhardy users to install and test the current pre-alpha builds. Emesene2 has been rewritten completely from […]
Banshee developer Aaron Bockover has announced that even greater Amazon MP3 integration is coming to the Banshee media player. A new extension will embed the Amazon MP3 store directly within Banshee itself. Users will then […]
It’s been a while since we last mentioned the very awesome wallpaper-slideshow generator ‘CREBS‘ (CREate Background Slideshow). “Crebs is a small Python/GTK application that allows you to quickly create wallpaper slideshows with many user-configurable settings. […]
Image | cmyrland Chromium’s new ‘unified menu’ is now enabled by default in the Chromium Daily build. The ‘single menu’ approach to listing options and features is something a lot of browser are currently in the […]
The first beta of Mozilla’s Firefox browser is now available for the bleeding-edge insatiable to get their teeth into. Many of the new features and enhancements we’ve mentioned over the last few months finally make […]