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WoeUSB is a Linux tool for creating bootable Windows USB sticks for installing Windows, from an ISO or DVD image.

WoeUSB 3.3.0 was released a few days ago with only one, but very important feature. The WoeUSB GUI now features an option that allows the user to select the target filesystem type (FAT or NTFS, with FAT being default), fixing a very common error users were previously encountering.

This article presents the new features and improvements in the latest Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo). This Ubuntu version is supported until January 2020. For a longer supported release, use Ubuntu 18.04 LTS instead, which is supported until April 2023.

As many of you already know, GNOME 3.32 includes experimental HiDPI fractional scaling for Wayland, but what you might now be aware of is that thanks to Marco Trevisan, it's also possible to use fractional scaling with the X11 session on Ubuntu 19.04 Disco Dingo. This article explains how to enable fractional scaling on Ubuntu 19.04 with GNOME 3.32 using both Wayland and X11 (default) sessions.

GNOME Files (or Nautilus) has a batch file rename feature (introduced in version 3.22) which allows finding and replacing text in multiple filenames, as well as adding automatic numbers, or renaming files based on metadata. Batch file renaming based on image and music metadata doesn't work by default in Ubuntu though, inserting only the metadata name instead of the actual metadata.

Yaru Colors is a fork of the Yaru theme (default Ubuntu Gtk, icon and Gnome Shell themes) in 11 colors, with each Gtk theme being available in regular and dark versions, great for those who like Yaru, but would like to to use different accent / folder colors. Only the Gnome desktop is supported (not only on Ubuntu, but other Linux distributions as well).

How to remove old revisions of snaps, and how to set the snap retain value to minimum, to free up disk space.

Blackmagic Design has released DaVinci Resolve 16 beta yesterday with new exciting features like neural engine with face recognition, new cut page, and more.

A new GIMP version is out after 5 months of development. Unlike previous major versions of GIMP, the 2.10 branch allows some new features and enhancements to be added to the stable releases, and the latest GIMP 2.10.10 includes quite a few, including some notable Bucket Fill tool improvements, parametric brushes now support 32-bit floats, and more.

If you want to automatically mount USB drives on a server running Debian or Ubuntu (including Raspbian or Ubuntu MATE for Raspberry Pi) you can use a simple, but very effective tool called USBmount.

Master PDF Editor is a proprietary application to edit PDF documents on Linux, Windows and macOS. It can create, edit (insert text or images), annotate, view, encrypt, and sign PDF documents.

scrcpy is an application that allows displaying and controlling Android devices connected via USB or or wireless, from a macOS, Windows or Linux desktop. The application focuses on performance and quality, offering 30~60 FPS with a resolution of 1920x1080 or more, and low latency.

Ksnip, a free and open source Qt5 screenshot tool has seen a new major release recently, which adds important enhancements like experimental Wayland support for KDE and GNOME, option to scale the image, and new annotation tools like blur, double arrow, marker rectangle and ellipse. What's more, with this release the application is no longer Linux-only, adding macOS and Windows support.

Mailnag, an email notification daemon that integrates with Gnome Shell through an extension, has seen a new release over the week-end. Mailnag is an email notification daemon for POP3 and IMAP servers. It comes with predefined settings for Gmail, GMX, Web.de, and Yahoo email services, and it offers features ranging from triggering popup or sound notifications on new email arrival, a spam filter, or running an user defined script when receiving new emails.

Oracle released Java 12 last week, and the new release can now be installed in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and Debian from the Linux Uprising Java PPA. The new version will receive a minimum of 2 updates, and it will followed by Oracle JDK 13 in September 2019.

After its regular 6-month development cycle, GNOME 3.32 will be released today. If you want to find out what new features and improvements are included with this release, read on.

scrcpy is a free and open source application to display and control Android devices connected via USB (or wirelessly, but with lower performance) from a Linux, Windows or macOS desktop.

TLP 1.2 was released today after being in development for more than a year, and it brings support for NVMe, and removable drives like USB and IEEE1394 devices, support for multi queue I/O schedulers (blk-mq), and other significant enhancements.

Sometimes Gnome Software doesn't load, getting stuck in the "Software catalog is being loaded" phase. Here is how to fix it.

This article explains how to convert the pages of a PDF document to image files (PNG, JPEG, and others).

When you create a regular Linux live USB, you can install software, download files, make changes to the system, and so on, but all of these changes are lost after a reboot. A persistent live USB allows saving any changes you make to the live system, so the they are still present the next time you boot to it.