Looking for app to convert your photo images into other formats? Try Switcheroo. For batch image processing, I’d recommend to use Converseen. However, stupid simple applications are always good choices for beginners. And, Switcheroo is one stupid simple app for converting photo images, while having modern look and feel in today’s Linux desktop. With it, […]
Have 2 or more PCs connected to a single external monitor? If you run Ubuntu (or other Linux) on one of the PCs, then here’s how to add a keyboard shortcut to switch video source on the monitor. Most external monitors today have more than one video input ports, e.g., HDMI1, HDMI2, DP1, allowing to […]
Fedora workstation displays Fedora logo on the desktop for the default wallpaper, now there’s an extension that can do the similar job in Ubuntu 23.10, Arch, and Manjaro Linux with GNOME 45. It’s “Logo Widget”, which allows to add any user selected image into desktop as background logo, resize and place it in top-left, top-center, […]
Mozilla announced Firefox 120.0 a day ago as the latest stable release of the popular web browser. The new release continue adding new security improvements. In the right-click menu of web links, there’s now “Copy Link Without Site Tracking” to ensure that copied links no longer contain tracking information. The ‘Privacy & Security’ setting page […]
For Ubuntu 23.10, Fedora 39, Arch and other Linux with GNOME Desktop 45, there’s now new system tray applet to monitor system resource utilization. There are quite a few tools for monitoring system resource utilization. While, Gnome-Stats-Plus is a new one that adds real-time graphs in right-corner of top-panel, allowing users to keep a close eye […]
Microsoft announced .NET 8 a few days ago. Here’s a step by step guide shows how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. .NET 8 is a new LTS release with 3 years support. It features new code generator “Dynamic Profile-Guided Optimization” (PGO), AVX-512 instruction set, out-of-the-box AI features, first preview of .NET Aspire, native […]
For HandBrake users who prefer the classic .deb package, there’s now new PPA for all current Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, Ubuntu 23.10, and their based systems, such as Linux Mint 20/21, Pop! OS, Zorin OS 17. HandBrake announced the new major 1.7.0 release a few days ago. The release features new AMD VCN […]
Shotwell photo viewer and organizer released new 0.32.3 version a day ago with minor updates. The release came with some bug-fixes and minor changes, they include: Fix asking twice on closing viewer with modified image Do not try to reload photo on shutdown Do not abort if new thumbnail size does not exist Open fullscreen […]
For LUbuntu 22.04 users, the latest LXQt desktop 1.4.0 is available to upgrade now through the official PPA. LXQt, the lightweight Qt desktop environment, announced the release of 1.4.0 more than a week ago. Changes in the new desktop release include: lxqt-menu-data is released to replace lxmenu-data anywhere needed. In file manager, user can add […]
In Ubuntu 23.10 with default GNOME 45 desktop, there’s no longer app menu indicator in top-panel next to workspace indicator (previously ‘Activities’). It’s an indicator menu for current running app window in focus, which has few basic options such as “New Window” and “Quite”. GNOME has proposed to replace the app menu with a new […]
FFmpeg multi-media library updated to version 6.1, code-name “Heaviside”, few days ago! According to the FFmpeg release page, the new 6.1 release features new libaribcaption decoder, RivaTuner video decoder, Playdate video decoder and demuxer, vMix video decoder, OSQ demuxer and decoder, as well as Microsoft RLE video encoder and VAAPI AV1 encoder. The release also […]
For those who want to install the most recent Kernel 6.6 with new hardware support or compatibility fixes, it’s now available in the zabbly repository for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Debian 12. Linux 6.6 was released few weeks ago as the latest Kernel series. It features PSR power saving for Intel 4th/5th CPU, initial […]
OBS Studio, the popular live streaming software, announced new 30.0 release yesterday. Here are the new features and how to install guide for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04/23.10, and Linux Mint 21. OBS-Studio 30.0 is a big release with many new features. They include WHIP/WebRTC output, support for Intel QSV H264, HEVC, AV1 on Linux, “Safe […]
Hugin, the free open-source panorama photo stitching and HDR merging software, finally released the new stable 2023 release! Changes in the new release include: PTBatcherGUI can now also queue user defined assistant and user defined output sequences. PTBatcherGUI: Added option to generate panorama sequences from an existing pto template. Assistant: Added option to select different […]
Tilix terminal emulator released version 1.9.6 few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. Tilix is a tiling terminal emulator, which uses the VTE GTK+ 3 widget for various features, such as split horizontally or vertically, transparent background, background images, quake mode support, custom hyperlinks, experimental trigger […]
GIMP image editor announced a new stable release for the 2.10 series one days ago. Here’s how you can install it in Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10. First of all, GIMP 2.10.36 includes a few security fixes. So, users are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Besides many bug-fixes and security updates. […]
GNU Octave released version 8.4.0 this Sunday. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 23.10 via PPA. GNU Octave, a high-level interpreted language for numerical computations, release new 8.4.0 few days ago. The release came with mainly bug-fixes and improvements. The official announcement is not ready yet. But, according to […]
Have multiple monitors connected to your Ubuntu 22.04 machine? There’s now an indicator to dim all or individual monitor screen brightness with sliders. You can dim external monitor brightness with either physical buttons or ddcutil utility. However, an indicator applet in system tray can be more effective, and here’s one for Ubuntu 22.04 with default […]
This simple tutorial shows how to display live earth as desktop wallpaper in Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 23.10. Ubuntu has Wallch wallpaper changer in system repository, which has option to show live earth as wallpaper. However, the app is no longer updated and the feature is broken for all current Ubuntu releases. If you’re interested […]
This simple tutorial shows how to do stress test on your CPU in Ubuntu or Debian Linux, either Desktop or Server. Got a new CPU /CPU cooler, or changed your computer environment? You can perform a stress test to find out if it’s working good! And, here’s how to do the trick in Debian, Ubuntu, […]