The easiest way to do it is to right-click the app's icon on the Dock, then click the "Quit" button. The Santa hat should be ...

During a recent talk at the FOSDEM conference, VLC‘s lead developer gave us a sneak peek at changes coming to the open source, cross-platform media player in the coming year. Under the hood VLC 4.0 ...

We learned recently that VLC was getting a significant update, with an all-new and more modern VLC 4 user interface. But a sneak peek at the Linux version unfortunately doesn’t look good. It does ...

VLC's interface is ugly and dated and overcomplicated for the vast majority of use cases. The new player looks excellent and more like a modern media player while still retaining all of the core VLC ...

The awesome open source and free VideoLAN media player (aka VLC) has reached version 2.0 (codenamed "Twoflower") with a new major update. Visually the biggest difference will be noticed for Mac OS X ...

VLC just hit the 2.0 milestone, with it bringing a ton of behind-the scenes improvements to video playback on systems with multiple cores and fast GPUs, plus a number of new supported formats. Mac ...

Windows/Mac/Linux: VLC 0.9.3, the bug-fixed, updated version of our favorite cross-platform, hardly-ever-fails media player, is available for download. New to this version are a revamped interface and ...

Rita was a Managing Editor at Android Police. Once upon a time, she was a pharmacist as well. Her love story with Android started in 2009 and has been going stronger with every update, device, tip, ...

The VLC media player is an amazing piece of software. In its most basic form it is a lightweight media player that can play almost any audio or video format you throw at it. VLC is also multiplatform ...

And while this is a pretty egregious example, VLC 4.0 is hardly the only interface taking this general design direction. I'd really like to at least understand why so much of modern UI design seems so ...