Kid3, the free and open-source Qt app for editing audio tags, now is 20 years old! It was January 12, 2003, exactly 20 years ago, when the first version 0.1 of Kid3 was released. And, it’s the first app that I used to edit music tags in Ubuntu when in 2008. To celebrate it, the […]
KeePass password manager released new 2.53 version a few days ago. Here are the new features as well as PPA packages for Ubuntu users. The new release enhanced the History tab in Edit Entry. When editing an entry, the History tab contains the ‘Dialog (unsaved)’ to represent all data entered in the current dialog, and […]
Converseen image converter announced 0.9.10.0 release few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu via PPA. Converseen is a free and open-source tool for converting or resizing a large quantity of photo images to another format with a few mouse clicks. The new 0.9.10.0 release redesigned the Images Settings dialog. Previously, it automatically […]
Liferea, Linux Feed Reader, finally announced the new stable 1.14 release series! Here’s how to install it via PPA in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 22.10. Liferea is a news aggregator that brings together all of the content from your favorite subscriptions into a simple interface for easy organizing and browsing. It features offline […]
Gnome, the default desktop environment in Ubuntu & Fedora Workstation, is going to replace the app menu with a new window animation, for indicating window focus. Meaning it will remove the app menu for current window, in the top-bar beside ‘Activities’ button. Because, it’s always confusing users who are new to GNOME. Instead, when switching […]
OBS Studio, the popular free and open-source video recording and live streaming software, announced a new major 29.0 today. The new release came with great improvements for Windows users, including AMD AV1 Encoder for the RX7000 series GPUs, Intel AV1 Encoder for Arc GPUs, and Intel HEVC Encoder. It also introduced native HEVC and ProRes […]
Krita graphics editor 5.1.5 released few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04 and/or Ubuntu 22.10 via PPA repository. Krita 5.1 was released months ago with improved Webp, photoshop files support, extended fill tools, and configurable touch controls. The 5.1.5 is a new point release with following bug-fixes: Fixed issue with banding […]
For Pinta users who do NOT like the Snap and Flatpak packages that run in sandbox. Here’s how to build the 2.1 release from source tarball in Ubuntu 22.04 & 22.10. Pinta has switch to .NET 6.0 framework since version 2.0. Which however needs internet connection to fetch something for the first time during the […]
The free and open-source Paint.Net 3.0 clone, Pinta image editor got a new major release after 1 year of development. The new Pinta 2.1 came with some exciting new features, including WebP image support via webp-pixbuf-loader library, and updated icons with improved support for dark theme and HiDPI displays. The Gradient tool now has a […]
Ubuntu by default play a short alert sound when you plug in/out USB drive, power supply, or hit tab function key in terminal. This is useful for indicating certain type of system messages and events, but it’s easy to mute these type of sounds in case you don’t like them. And, here’s the quick tutorial […]
For Chinese users or those who have friends or business in China, native QQ app is finally working well in Linux by releasing the 3.0 version! QQ is one of the top popular instant messaging apps in China. It has an official Linux client since 2019, which was however old, crash often, and not suitable […]
Want to display audio/music visualizer on the desktop? This extension can do the job for Ubuntu 22.10, Fedora 37, Arch/Manjaro Linux with GNOME. It’s “Sound Visualizer” extension for Gnome Shell based on Gstreamer specially for Wayland. And, it’s working good in my case in Ubuntu 22.04, though it’s said for Gnome v43. Besides for music […]
HandBrake video transcoder and DVD ripper announced new major 1.6.0 release today. Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu Linux users. HandBrake 1.6.0 is a big release with new AV1 video encoding support. They are SVT-AV1 (software) and Intel QSV AV1 (hardware) video encoders. This release as well introduced high […]
Got photo images but not clear enough? Or you want to convert them into 4K resolution without losing quality? This app can help! It’s upscayl, a free and open-source app for Linux, Windows, and macOS. It uses AI modules to upscale single or batch of photo images into 7680×5120 (or double resolution 15360×10240). Supported AI […]
Happy Christmas and happy new year to my dear readers! Kodi, the popular home media center software, release 19.5 version to celebrate the holidays. It’s the last point release for the 19.x release, while Kodi 20 now is in RC2 stage. And, this release mainly include bug-fixes and improvements backport from dev release. They are: […]
Got wireless mouse, keyboard, or controller connect to your PC? You can have a glance at the battery level of them in top-bar of Ubuntu 22.04|22.10, Fedora 36/37, Arch/Manjaro with GNOME desktop! This can be done via a Gnome Shell extension based on upower power management daemon. Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 22.10 user can get […]
For those who would like to run Windows apps on Linux, the new major Wine 8.0 now is in RC release stage. As usual, there will be 6 RC releases until final stable version. The latest so far is rc2 that features 50 bug-fixes for applications, including ICU64 for VICE, UT99, Warframe, MyPhoneExplorer, Silent Hill […]
Darkable, the popular free open-source photography app and raw developer, released new 4.2.0 release a day ago. Darktable 4.2.0 is a big release with following changes: New Sigmoid display transform module Two new algorithms in the highlight reconstruction module: “inpaint opposed” and “segmentation based”. Possible to preview the effect of a user-generated style on an […]
The first point release of Linux Mint 21 is out! Code-name ‘Vera’, Kernel 5.15, Ubuntu 22.04 package base, and Cinnamon 5.6, MATE 1.26, XFCE 4.16 for each desktop edition. The default theme for mouse pointer in Linux Mint 21.1 now is Bibata-Modern-Classic, a modern black and rounded edge bibata cursors. Though, user can easily choose […]
Free and open-source music notation software MuseScore 4 is out after more than 2 year since the last major release. MuseScore 4 now have a modern look UI with both light and dark mode, as well as 7 accent colors. It provides a setup dialog to choose between them on first launch, though user can […]