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Fotoxx 16.08 Photo Editor released

<li class="bbli"> Slide Show: <ul> <li> The last image remains displayed until Escape is pressed </li> <li> Transition preferences: fix large dialog that can overflow a small monitor. </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Select Hairy: <ul> <li> Show the tones currently being selected or deselected. </li> <li> Select and deselect thresholds were adjusted for finer selectivity. </li> </ul> </li> <li class="bbli"> Select Area: <ul> <li> Area edit: edge blending appearance was made smoother.

LibreOffice 5.2.0 released with new features

<li class="bbli"> Calc: <ul> <li> New functions have been added, along with extensive tooltips that describe what a function does as you type it. </li> <li> Multiple status bar functions can be active at the same time, to provide a quick overview of your data. </li> <li> The currency toolbar icon now includes a drop-down menu to quickly choose the currency you want to use. </li> <li> When removing the border from selected cells, you can also choose to remove the border from adjacent cells as well.

cURL 7.50.1 released with cmake fix

<pre>wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.50.1.tar.gz tar -xvf curl-7.50.1.tar.gz cd curl-7.50.1/ ./configure make sudo make install

Install Anatine “Pristine Twitter app” on Ubuntu 16.04

Anatine is an opensource Pristine Twitter like app developed for OS X, Linux, and Windows OS. Anatine offers you some nice features which includes a lovely Dark mode theme and it also runs at the background when you close the app. Highlights of Features Dark mode You can toggle dark mode in the Anatine menu or with Cmd Shift D / Ctrl Shift D. {#user-content-background-behavior}Background behavior When closing the window, the app will continue running in the background, in the dock on macOS and the tray on Linux/Windows.