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TV-Browser, a free and open-source digital TV guide software, has reached the 4.0 release a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Linux Mint 18.x and derivatives. TV-Browser is a Java program that gets the daily TV program (more than 1000 channels) from the internet and shows it clearly aranged – like a printed ...

MKVToolNix 13.0.0 was released a few days ago with a few small enhancements and bug-fixes. All users are recommended to upgrade to the new release. New features & enhancements in MKVToolNix 13.0.0: mkvmerge: MPEG TS reader: information about multiple programs will be output as container properties during verbose/JSON identification. MKVToolNix GUI: multiplex tool: added a column “program” to the tracks ...

KeePassXC (KeePass Cross-Platform Community Edition) is a community fork of KeePassX, the cross-platform port of KeePass for Windows. The goal is to extend and improve it to provide a feature-rich, fully cross-platform and modern open-source password manager. The database is encrypted with the industry-standard AES (alias Rijndael) encryption algorithm using a 256 bit key. And it is compatible with KeePass ...

The Opera web browser has reached the new stable 46 release days ago with stability improvements, new features and various fixes. Today’s stable release is stage two of the Reborn project. Opera 46 improves the quality of Opera Reborn by introducing more user interface changes, reducing crashes, fixing issues for built-in browser VPN, and adding support for animated PNG files ...

Stellarium, a free, open-source and cross-platform planetarium software, has reached the new major 0.16.0 release one day ago. Features ability to run multiple software instances. Stellarium 0.16.0 is a stable version based on Qt5.6 (can still be built with Qt5.4) that introduces some new features, 38 bug-fixes, and a huge list of other changes. New features in Stellarium 0.16.0: RemoteSync ...

Vivaldi web browser reached the new stable 1.10 release a few days ago. The new release features customizable start page and docked developer tools. Customizable Start Page With Vivaldi 1.10, you can add multiple Speed Dials to your start page. Thumbnails and Speed Dial folders can be replaced with custom images or even animated GIFs. At the core of Vivaldi’s ...

Shotwell, the Gnome photo management software, has reached the new major 0.27.0 release with many new features, bug-fixes, performance improvements and translation updates. What’s New in Shotwell 0.27.0: Remove F-Spot import support A command line utility to test image transformations Speed up color transformations a bit. Bump GTK+ requirement to 3.18 and remove deprecated functions Clean-up histogram drawing code Run ...

A new update of the Kingsoft office suite, WPS 2016 for Linux, was released a few days ago with several new features, performance improvements and various fixes. Why WPS office suite? WPS Office is made up of three primary components: WPS Writer, WPS Presentation, and WPS Spreadsheet. It looks terribly similar to Microsoft Office! And it offers complete compatibility with ...

PyCharm 2017.1.4, a new update of the Python IDE developed by JetBrains, was released a few days ago. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17,04. PyCharm 2017.1.4 features a total of 27 bug-fixes, one new feature, and a few performance improvements. fixed debugger bugs related to IPython and Qt CPU/Memory usage improvements when editing Django ...

Kid3, the popular open-source audio tag editor, has reached the 3.5.0 release an hour ago. Here’s what’s new and how to install it in Ubuntu via PPA. Besides bug fixes and performance improvements, Kid3 3.5.0 brings new features like marking violations of the ID3v2 standard. It is now possible to assign keyboard shortcuts to user actions. The command line version ...