Category: App Updates
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Intel GPU Usage Now Displayed on Mission Center, Available as AppImage: A Closer Look
Intel GPU support has been added to the Linux system monitor app Mission Center. I’ve written about this GTK4/libadwaita app a few times in the past and, to paraphrase myself, the response to it has been overwhelmingly positive. The app is written in Rust and uses OpenGL to render the animation graphs, ensuring that it…
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Exciting Update: Calibre eBook App Now Features Audio ePubs and Custom Notes Support
If Calibre, the well-known open-source ebook manager, could be thought of as a book, it would undoubtedly continually top the bestseller lists due to its comprehensive array of features. The most recent release, Calibre 7, expands this array of features even further. This new update introduces a variety of novel functionalities to the pre-existing features…
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Celebrating 20 Years of Notepad++ with a Brand-New Release
The open-source text editor Notepad++ is marking its 20th anniversary with a new release packed with exciting new features. The 238th release since 2003, titled Notepad++ 8.6, introduces additions to its robust feature set with an enhanced multi-edit feature, specifically for its Windows-based code tool. While I’m not a developer myself, with my coding experience…
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Blue Recorder: The Linux Screencast App Now Ported to GTK4
GNOME Shell’s built-in screen recording feature is perfect at capturing short clips but when you need to record longer sessions you should use a dedicated screen recording app. Such tools give you greater control over video quality, output format, sound capture, frame rate, and so on — all vitally important if you’re looking to create…
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Musique Music Player Successfully Ported to Qt 6: A Refreshing UI Overhaul
Musique 1.12 running in Ubuntu 23.10 It’s been a while since I last wrote about Musique, an open-source desktop music player for Windows, macOS, and Linux (I first featured it in 2010, back when it was called MiniTunes). Amazingly, the app is still going, and it just received its first major update in almost 3…
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“Foliate Linux eBook App Upgraded to GTK4: Check Out the Exciting New Features”
Foliate, an excellent ebook reader for Linux, has recently launched a significant update. According to the software developer, the application was completely rewritten utilizing the latest platform libraries, GTK4, and Adwaita, resulting in a refreshed interface and improved performance. In addition to being ported to GTK4, Foliate 3.0 now employs its own library for parsing…
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“OBS Studio Incorporates Support for Intel QSV, HEVC and AV1 on Linux”
A new version of OBS Studio, version 30.0, has been released with a number of new features and improvements. OBS Studio is free, open-source live streaming and screen recording software that is popular with gamers, streamers, and even educators and businesses due to its powerful feature set, customisation options, and easy-to-use interface. For Linux users,…
