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  • GNOME 46: The Best New Features

    Mon 12:55pm By Joey Sneddon
    GNOME 46 is released on March 20 and the update will be at the heart of the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 release — so are you wondering what sort of improvements it brings? Well, I gotcha’ covered, innit. In this post I run-through the best GNOME 46 features,…
  • Mozilla Axes its Privacy-Friendly Location Service

    Fri 11:29am By Joey Sneddon
    Mozilla has announced it is ending access to Mozilla Location Service (MLS), which provides accurate, privacy-respecting, and crowdsourced geolocation data. Developers and 3rd-party projects that use MLS to detect a users’ location, such as the…
  • Proton Mail’s New Desktop App is Available for Linux

    Thu 11:59am By Joey Sneddon
    Proton Mail has released a brand new desktop app for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The app means subscribers to the privacy-focused mail service no longer need to use a web browser to read, send, and manage their mail. For privacy-conscious folks, Proton needs…
  • VLC Media Player Hits 5 Billion Downloads – Big Changes Ahead

    Wed 2:40pm By Joey Sneddon
    VLC media player has now been downloaded over 5 billion times across desktop and mobile devices, with the most recent release clocking up 335 million downloads on its own! Jean-Baptiste Kempf, president of VideoLAN, the non-profit organisation who develop VLC…
  • KDE Plasma 6.0.2 Update Delivers More Fixes

    Tue 4:35pm By Joey Sneddon
    The second bug-fix update to KDE Plasma 6 is now available, arriving just over a week after the first one rolled out. KDE Plasma 6.0.2 brings a bunch of band-aids to resolves crashes, quirks, and other odd-ball behaviours reported by users since the KDE Plasma…
  • Linux Kernel 6.8 Released, This is What’s New

    Mar 10, 2024, 5:24 pm By Joey Sneddon
    After several solid months of development the Linux 6.8 kernel has been officially released. This kernel is of particular note to Ubuntu users as it’s the version chosen to ship in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS – i.e., as the GA kernel and thereby supported for the…
  • Run any App in Picture in Picture Mode on Ubuntu

    Mar 8, 2024, 10:53 am By Joey Sneddon
    A new GNOME Shell extension lets you turn any app in to a picture-in-picture window on Ubuntu. You’re probably familiar with picture-in-picture mode (PiP) in web browsers as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome both let you to “pop-out” videos from websites…
  • Zorin OS 17.1 Released with Better Windows App Support + More

    Mar 7, 2024, 12:00 pm By Joey Sneddon
    A new version of Zorin OS is available for download. Zorin OS 17.1 is the follow up to Zorin OS 17, which was released in December. It is based on Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS and ships with the latest HWE stack pulled from Ubuntu 23.10, meaning users get a newer Linux…
  • Linux Mint is Building a New Desktop Chat App

    Mar 5, 2024, 9:05 pm By Joey Sneddon
    A new IRC client (but don’t call it an IRC client) is being developed by Linux Mint. The Ubuntu-based distro currently includes Hexchat in its default software set. IRC isn’t as trendy as Discord or Telegram but it is a free, open standard that no single…
  • Silverfox is a Classic Chrome Theme for Firefox ESR

    Mar 4, 2024, 5:46 pm By Joey Sneddon
    A new open-source nostalgia project lets you turn back the clock on web browser aesthetics. Silverfox is a custom theme for Mozilla Firefox ESR — a long-term support version of the famed browser — that recreates the classic look of Google Chrome from 2012.…
  • Varia Download Manager Now Has Official Browser Extensions

    Mar 3, 2024, 1:52 pm By Joey Sneddon
    Avid users of Varia, a modern download manager for Linux desktops, should check out the app’s official browser extensions. Installing the Varia Integrator browser extension in Google Chrome/Chromium or Mozilla Firefox means you no longer need to copy a…
  • How to Mirror Your iPhone/iPad on Ubuntu Desktop

    Mar 2, 2024, 6:59 pm By Joey Sneddon
    Do you want to mirror your iPhone screen on your Ubuntu desktop? There’s a free, open-source app in the Ubuntu repos that lets you do it. If you’re looking to mirror your iPhone or iPad to Ubuntu UxPlay is the easy way to do it — and it’s free,…