Mozilla Firefox web browser 77.0 was released today with some new features and various security fixes. Firefox 77.0 features: Pocket’s article recommendations in new tab. If you don’t see them, follow these steps. WebRender available by default on Windows 10 ...

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Kernel 5.7 a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in 64-bit Ubuntu and Linux Mint. New features in Linux 5.7 include: Support Intel Tiger Lake “Gen12” graphics out-of-the-box. AMD Ryzen 4000 “Renoir” ...

Need an indicator applet to display internet download and upload speed in the top panel of Ubuntu 20.04 Gnome Shell? NetSpeed used to be an old Gnome applet, then an indicator for Unity desktop. Now it’s a Gnome Shell extension ...

Looking for a desktop weather application for Ubuntu desktop? My Weather Indicator is one of the great choices. My Weather Indicator is an application especially designed for Ubuntu. It’s written in Python 3 and works on Plasma, GNOME, MATE, Xfce, ...

Modern GTK3 eBook reader Foliate 2.2.0 was released today with many great new features. Here’s how to install it via PPA in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04. Foliate 2.2.0 is a new major release that features: New library ...

The default nautilus file browser allows to compress files into Zip, Tar.xz, 7z archive with no other options. What if you want to compress your data into other formats (e.g., rar, epub, jar, and more) with password protection, and change ...

Android Studio 4.0 was released a day ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, Ubuntu 20.04. Android Studio 4.0 features a new Motion Editor, improved Layout Inspector, Clangd support for C++, smart editor features, enhancements to ...

This quick tip shows how to enable Secure Shell (SSH) service in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, both desktop and server, to allow secure remote login and other network communications. Ubuntu includes OpenSSH, a suite of secure networking utilities based on the ...

Folder Color is a file browser extension allows to change the color and add emblem for selected folder. Folder Color is available in Ubuntu universe repositories. However, it does not work very well in Ubuntu 20.04 with the default Yaru ...

Small and highly customizable twin-panel Sunflower file manager released version 0.4 after many years of development. Sunflower 0.4 brings new interface based on GTK3. The code is ported to Python3. As a result of this rewrite performance has gone up ...

There are quite a few ways to transfer files over home network. One of the easiest ways is to run a single python command in terminal. Python contains a script that sets up simple http server. No need to install ...

Need to do some work in the black & white command line console? You can press Ctrl+Alt+F3 on keyboard to switch from the current session to tty3 text console, and switch back via Ctrl+Alt+F2. From the startup grub boot-loader menu ...

Transmission, Ubuntu’s default BitTorrent Client, released new major 3.00 version a days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 19.10, Ubuntu 18.04. Transmission 3.00 features: Allow RPC server to listen on IPv6. Limit incorrect authentication attempts to ...

Audacity audio editor 2.4.0 was released a few days ago. The release was paused due to a critical bug. Now version 2.4.1 arrived with quick fixes. What’s new in Audacity 2.4.1: Works on Mac Catalina. New Time Toolbar. Presets for ...

Kodi media center 18.7 was released today. Now it’s available to install via PPA in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04. Kodi 18.7 is a bug-fix release that contains following changes: Add more PVR context menu support. ...