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Audacious Music App Now Defaults to GTK3, Adds New Plugins

A new version of the Audacious music player popped out a few weeks back, but I totally missed hearing about until today (when sifting through my GitHub stars to make sure no other apps I like have joined the FOSS graveyard). Audacious 4.4 is a sizeable…

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Tiling Shell’s Latest Update Adds Blur Effect & Edge Tiling

Does it seem like I’m a bit obsessed with Tiling Shell, the super-charged window snapping extension for GNOME Shell, which works beautifully on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and above? It might do since this is my 3rd article about the extension in less than …

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SoftMaker FreeOffice 2024 Released, This is What’s New

A new version of FreeOffice has been released. FreeOffice 2024 is a free (as in beer) version based on SoftMaker Office 2024, a commercial, cross-platform office suite. Any users of SoftMaker Office reading this needn’t feel short-changed: the fr…

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Open-Source Video Editor Gets ‘Game-Changer’ Update

A new version of open-source video editor OpenShot is available to download. OpenShot 3.2 is the first update to the app since early last year, and the editor’s chief developer, Jonathan Thomas, describes this release as a “game-c…

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Celluloid, the GTK Media Player, Gets First Update This Year

A new version of Celluloid, an open-source media player for Linux, has been released. Celluloid (originally called GNOME MPV, albeit many moons ago) is an MPV-based media player able to leverage many of MPV’s ‘powerful playback capabilities…

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Tiling Shell Update Adds New Keyboard Shortcuts + More

Tiling Shell, the Windows 11-esque window snapping extension I spotlighted last week received an update at the weekend, adding enhancements I feel are worthy of mention. This includes a request to support snapping windows in the active tiling layout us…

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ONLYOFFICE 8.1 Released with Enhanced PDF Editor + More

A new version of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source, and cross-platform office suite, is now available to download. If you’ve not yet found a reason to try this productivity powerhouse out, this latest update could well change that. …

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Vivaldi 6.8 Released with Mail Client Improvements + More

A new version of Vivaldi, the power-user’s preferred browser (right?) is out with a symphony—don’t groan—of improvements. While most people use the Vivaldi web browser for browsing the web, and it offers plenty of buffs to improve that expe…

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Firefox 127 Released with Improved Screenshot Tool, Security Boost

“It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me and I’m feeling…“ like I ought to stop singing and crack on with writing a post to say Mozilla Firefox 127 has been released — because it has! Yes, it’s been a month…

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Linux System Monitor App ‘Mission Center’ is Now Even More Useful

A new version of Mission Center, the super-slick system monitor for Linux, has been released. I’ve written about this utility a number of times before, so if you read this blog regularly you—aside from being awesome—may be familiar with it. And i…

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HandBrake 1.8 Released with GTK4 UI, FFV1 Encoder + More

The popular, powerful, and cross-platform video converter HandBrake recently put out a new version with a notable improvement. HandBrake 1.8.0 now uses GTK 4 for the user interface, dropping GTK 3 entirely. This toolkit uplift (facelift?) has been in t…

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VLC Adds AMD VQ Enhancer Filter, Improved Opus Ambisonic + More

A new version of VLC, the perennially popular open-source media player, is out with an assortment of improvements and new features. VLC 3.0.21 is the first maintenance release to be issued year, following on from last autumn’s 3.0.20 release. Mai…

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Mozilla Firefox 126.0.1 Fixes Drag and Drop Quirk on Linux

This month’s Firefox 126 release brought with it a modest set of improvements for Linux users — as well as an annoying bug which temporarily breaks drag and drop actions in the browser. And that bug was easy to trigger: select some text or an ima…

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Rufus Fixes Creation of Persistent Ubuntu 24.04 USBs

Rufus, a popular open-source tool for making bootable USB drives on Windows, just released an update that includes a ‘fix’ for working with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ISOs. A truly versatile tool, Rufus is able to create bootable Windows installers f…

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Mozilla Firefox 126 is Now Available to Download

Mozilla Firefox 126 is now available download, and in-app updates beginning to roll out to existing users on Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. As Firefox updates go the 126 release is rather light on user-facing goodies, especially versus last month&…

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Amarok 3.0 Released, Ported to Qt5/KDE Frameworks 5

A new version of the open-source music player Amarok has been released, the first major update to the Qt-based media app since 2018. Amarok 3.0 is the first stable release to use Qt 5 and KDE Frameworks 5, and work to port the music player to the the n…

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Clapper Video Player for Linux Gets First Update in 2 Years

A new version of Clapper, a GTK4-based video player for Linux desktop has been released — the first major update in nearly 2 years. I first wrote about Clapper back in 2021 having been seduced over by its slick user interface (a superficial reason to l…

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Audacity 3.5 Released with Cloud Saves, Beat Detection + More

A new version of Audacity, a popular open-source audio workstation, is available to download. Audacity 3.5 introduces major new features and improvements, fixes a number of issues in earlier builds, and removes a number of older, less-used options. The…

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GNOME Podcasts 7.0 Released with iTunes & fyyd Search

If you love podcasts and you love the look of GTK4/libadwaita apps then you’ll be pleased to hear a new version of the GNOME Podcasts app has been released. If…

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Mozilla Firefox 125 Released with Added Conveniences

You know the drill by now: a new month rolls around, and a new version of the inimitable Mozilla Firefox rolls off the release server for us all to enjoy. And bang on cue, Firefox 125 has arrived. The big-ticket new feature in this update is URL paste …

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