I really have too many tray icons. You know the ones. They sit on your taskbar, perhaps doing something in the background or, ...

Kiwix, the desktop application for browsing offline archives of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and other resources, just got an ...

Got time for a final blast through smaller Linux app updates to round out 2025? There will be plenty of big new releases to ...

Dinky is GUI-like with tabs and themes; Ne is keyboard-forward. Replace Nano with a modern alternative.

For instance, we use Jeena's TextEd instead of Apple's text editor. For browsers, email, chat, productivity, writing, and so on, we use FOSS and freeware apps, and wherever possible, ones that also ...

LocalSend is an open-source app that provides device-to-device transfers between Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, and Linux.

The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates them. It's not going to turn the distro world upside down, but it's fun, ...

Make searching for files easier with these GUI tools. Each of these apps will work on most distributions. You can install these tools for free. In the early days of ...

A large-scale randomized trial of texting therapy concluded that its outcomes were as good as video sessions in treating depression. By Ellen Barry One of the most popular mental health innovations of ...

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Google’s file manager for Android is working on integrating a viewer for text files. Evidence first appeared in Files by Google version 1.8436.793259964.0-release but the tool is not yet active. When ...