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Chromecast Extension For Firefox fx_cast 0.0.5 Adds Support For YouTube, Subtitles For Local Media

Logix January 28, 2020

fx_cast , a tool that enables Chromecast support for Firefox web browser, has been updated to version 0.0.5 with some new features and bug ...

scrcpy Now Available In Debian Testing / Sid And Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa

Logix January 27, 2020

scrcpy, a tool to display and control Android devices from your desktop, was added recently to the Debian testing (bullseye) and sid, and ...

4 Tools To Record Your Linux Desktop (Screencast) In 2020

Logix January 24, 2020

This article presents 4 tools for recording your Linux desktop. All work under X11, and there are also a couple of solutions for recording ...

s-tui CPU Monitoring And Stress Testing Tool Sees Its First Stable (1.0.0) Release

Logix January 22, 2020

s-tui , a terminal-based CPU monitoring and stress testing tool for Linux, has reached version 1.0.0 stable after being in development for a...

Wine 5.0 Stable Released With Vulkan 1.1 Support, Reimplemented XAudio2, Proper Multi-Monitor Support

Logix January 21, 2020

Wine 5.0 is available for download after being in development for a year. This release includes over 7400 changes, the main highlights bei...

bandwhich Shows What`s Taking Up Your Network Bandwidth On Linux And macOS

Logix January 21, 2020

bandwhich is a relatively new terminal bandwidth utilization tool for Linux, *BSD and macOS, written in Rust. It shows the current network...

broot Is An Interactive Treeview Directory Navigation Tool For The Command Line

Logix January 16, 2020

broot is an interactive command line tool written in Rust for navigating directories using a tree view and fuzzy search. It also incorpora...

New Folder Icons, Aubergine As Second Accent Color Currently In Testing For Ubuntu 20.04 Yaru Theme

Logix January 14, 2020

For the next Ubuntu release (20.04 LTS, to be released in April 2020), the Yaru maintainers are testing some important theme changes. On...

auto-cpufreq Is A New CPU Speed And Power Optimizer For Linux

Logix January 09, 2020

auto-cpufreq is a new automatic CPU speed and power optimization tool for Linux laptops using Intel CPUs, which aims to "improve batt...

FFmpeg: How To Crop Videos, With Examples

Logix January 07, 2020

This article explains how to crop videos using FFmpeg (with examples) from the command line. It's especially useful for batch cropping ...

Pixelorama 2D Sprite Editor v0.6 Adds Support For Color Palettes, Multiple Themes

Logix January 07, 2020

Pixelorama , a free and open source 2D sprite editor, has been updated to version 0.6. In this release, the application got support for col...

Release Roundup: Moonlight PC 1.2.0, Monolith 2.1.0, Flowblade 2.4 And Shotcut 19.12

Logix December 18, 2019

Quite a few applications received updates recently. I didn't have time to post articles about all of them, so this article covers (in sh...