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There are quite a few color picker applications for Ubuntu Linux. Colorpicker is another one written with Electron, and works in Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. The colorpicker tool features: pin app window to the foreground. A picker opens an ...

Krita 4.2.9, free digital painting application, hits the first beta release a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, Ubuntu 20.04. Krita 4.2.9 beta is not announced in its website at the moment. According ...

OpenShot video editor 2.5.1 was released a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and derivatives via PPA. OpenShot 2.5.1 features faster performance, huge optimizations with effects, and improved UTF-8 character support. Release ...

Glimpse, an open source image editor based on GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP in short), released version 0.1.2 today. Due to the problematic word “gimp”, Glimpse forked the well known image editor so there are no potential barriers to using ...

Delta Chat is a free open-source Telegram or Whatsapp like messenger that works on Linux, Mac, Windows, iOS, and Android. Delta Chat doesn’t have its own servers but uses the most massive and diverse open messaging system ever: the existing ...

Kodi Media Center 18.6 now is available to install via its official PPA in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and their derivatives. Kodi 18.6 is a maintenance release contains mainly bug-fixes and stability improvements. It’s not officially announced at ...

Wine 5.3 was released one days ago as the latest development release of the compatibility layer allows to run Windows apps on Linux and Mac OS. The official apt repository has made the packages for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu ...

HPLIP 3.20.2, HP developed open source Linux driver for HP printers and scanners, was released today with many new devices and Linux Mint 19.3 support. HLIP 3.20.2 added support for Linux Mint 19.3 and the following new printers: HP Neverstop ...

Opera web browser 67 was released a few days ago with tab organization redefined via a new tool called ‘Workspaces’. Often have your browser with too many tabs open? With Opera 67, opened tabs can be grouped into different workspaces. ...

GIMP image editor 2.10.18 was released a day ago with new features and usability improvements. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu. Due to a critical bug, v2.10.16 was skipped and GIMP 2.10.18 was released with following release highlights: Tools ...

LightZone, professional-level digital darkroom and photo editor, released version 4.2.0 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04. LightZone is a free, open-source digital photo editor software application runs in Linux, ...

Notable is an open-source Markdown-based note-taking application that works in Linux, Mac OS, and Windows. Notes are written and rendered in GitHub Flavored Markdown, no WYSIWYG, no account required, no proprietary formats, and the app isn’t bloated. Notable has a ...

Remote Touchpad is an open-source utility allows to remote control the mouse and keyboard connected to your computer from the web browser of a smartphone or any other device with a touchscreen. Remote Touchpad supports Flatpak’s RemoteDesktop portal (experimental), Windows ...

This simple tutorial shows how to install the Ksnip screenshot tool in Ubuntu and receive future software updates via PPA repository. Ksnip is a Qt-based screenshot tool runs in Windows, Mac OS, and Linux (X11, KDE, and Gnome Wayland). Similar ...

Oracle Virtualbox released a new maintenance update for the 6.1 series a day ago. The new release features Linux guest with Kernel 5.5 support, and a shared folder fix for loopback mounting of images. Other changes in the VirtualBox 6.1.4 ...