Category: App Updates
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Open-Source Video Editor Launches Revolutionary New 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-changer with new themes, improved features, and enhanced performance.” Among the change and new features in OpenShot 3.2:…
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Latest Tiling Shell Update Introduces New Keyboard Shortcuts and Exciting Features
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 using the keyboard only. Because although that slide-in drop-over Snap Assistant widget makes using Tiling Shell…
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ONLYOFFICE 8.1 Launch: Enhanced PDF Editor and Additional Features
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. Last autumn’s ONLYOFFICE 7.5 release added a new PDF application to the suite. This could open/view…
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Mission Center”: The Linux System Monitor App That Just Got Even More Useful
The latest iteration of Mission Center, a highly efficient system monitor for Linux, has just been launched. On numerous occasions, I have discussed this utility (both here and on OMG! Linux), so regular readers of these blogs—clearly a discerning crowd—might already recognize it. For those who haven’t discovered it yet, prepare to be impressed. Among…
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HandBrake 1.8 Launches: Featuring New GTK4 UI, FFV1 Encoder, and More Enhancements
The widely utilized and robust video conversion tool HandBrake has launched a significant update in its latest version. HandBrake 1.8.0 has transitioned to using GTK 4 for its user interface, moving away from GTK 3. This update, which has been in development for a year or two, might not drastically alter the application’s appearance or…
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VLC Media Player Update: Introducing AMD VQ Enhancer, Enhanced Opus Ambisonic, and More Features
The updated release of VLC, the widely acclaimed open-source media player, brings several enhancements and additions. The version 3.0.21, marking the first update of the year, continues from the earlier 3.0.20 version released last autumn. Ongoing maintenance of the VLC 3.0.x series progresses concurrently with the development of the upcoming major release, VLC 4.0. This…
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Mozilla Firefox 126.0.1 Resolves Drag and Drop Issue on Linux: Update Details
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 image on a web page, then ‘drag’ it out but…
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Rufus Successfully Resolves Persistent Ubuntu 24.04 USB Creation Issue
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 from ISO files and disk images as well as Linux installers and, more pertinent to this…
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Download Now: Mozilla Firefox 126 Available for Users
Mozilla Firefox 126 in action 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’s release which intro’d clipboard paste suggestions in the address bar,…
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The Release of Amarok 3.0: Now 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 newest Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 is,…
