Get Gmail Notifications in the GNOME notification centre

Looking for an easy way to get Gmail notifications on the GNOME desktop? Well, you needn’t look any further. The Gmail Message Tray GNOME Extension does exactly what you want: shows you notifications of emails in the GNOME message tray (aka ‘notification centre’ aka ‘date/time indicator’). One of the main reasons I use a desktop email client […]

Install MKVToolNix 12.0.0 on Ubuntu

MKVToolNix 12.0.0 brings not too many changes, but at least one rather important bug fix in the HEVC/h.265 code that can result in invalid files. New features and enhancements MKVToolNix GUI: the key combination Ctrl+Shift+Space will now toggle the selection of the current item in all tree views where multiple selections are allowed. Implements #1983. […]

How to Install YouTube-DL GUI in Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04 

How to Install YouTube-DL GUI in Ubuntu 16.04, 17.04 Looking for a graphical front-end of youtube-dl, the popular cross-platform command-line YouTube downloading tool? Well, youtube-dlG is an open-source front-end GUI written in wxPython. The tool is quite simple, all you need to do is simply paste the video URLs (one URL per line) in the […]

Google Chrome is a Greedy RAM Hog. Here’s How to Fix It.

Google Chrome may be most people’s favorite browser, but it’s far from perfect. One of its biggest flaws is how much of your computer’s RAM it eats up. Most laptops don’t come with a huge amount of RAM; once the allotted memory is full, the computer can’t process any more actions. Each new tab that […]

How to Install Etcher, the open-source USB writer tool, on Ubuntu 

Etcher, a popular open-source USB image writer tool for Windows, macOS and Linux, has just issued a new stable release. Version 1.0 arrives almost one year to the day since we first introduced you to the easy-to-use image writer tool on this site. The stable release sees the app pick up a boat load of improvements that, its developers say, help make it “a much […]

How to Install f.lux in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10

F.lux changes your computer display’s color temperature according to location and time of day. It was designed to reduce eye strain during night-time use and disruption of sleep patterns. The f.lux for Linux is a command line daemon and the GUI is an indicator applet created by Kilian Valkhof. Though Kilian’s repository does not update […]