Something to do with open source software
Blast from the Past: How is it doing that?
This post was originally published on December 15, 2009. The original can be found here. Just about everything that I’ve ever read about media playback […]
Open Source Software
Enjoy some free audiobooks with LibriVox!
LibriVox is a really neat project that takes volunteer readers who record themselves reading public domain works aloud and packages up the results as completely free […]
Blast from the Past: A lengthy, detailed meta-analysis of studies of GNOME Do
This post was originally published on November 23, 2009. The original can be found here. GNOME Do is a fantastic little program that makes Linux […]
Blast from the Past: Open formats are… the best formats?
This post was originally published on January 17, 2016. The original can be found here. Over the past few years there has been a big […]
Alternative software: Vocal Podcast Client
In my never-ending quest to seek out the hidden gems amongst the Linux alternative software pile I decided to take a look into what was […]
Alternative software: Midori Browser
In my previous post I spoke about how the Linux platform has an incredible amount of alternative software and wrote a bit about my experiences using […]
Alternative software: Konqueror Browser
The Linux platform has an absolute wealth of what I would call alternative software. Many of these applications were built simply to fill in a […]
Trying out KeePassX
KeePassX is an independent implementation of the popular password manager that supports the KeePass (kdb) and KeePass2 (kdbx) database formats. Like the official KeePass application, […]
How To Set Up An OpenVPN Client On Linux
Getting a VPN set up right on your Linux machine has a number of advantages, especially today when online privacy is a must and files […]
KWLUG: Personal Information Manager Synchronization (2016-07)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Personal Information Manager Synchronization published on July 5th 2016. […]
RetroPie – turning your Raspberry Pi into a retro-gaming console!
Recently I decided to pick up a new Raspberry Pi 3 B from BuyaPi.ca. I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to do with […]
KWLUG: Raspberry Pi Projects (2016-06)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Raspberry Pi Projects published on June 7th 2016. You […]
KWLUG: Sound in Linux, Part 2 (2016-05)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Sound in Linux, Part 2 published on May 3rd […]
Fix: trying to overwrite ‘/usr/share/accounts/services/google-im.service’ installing kubuntu-desktop
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 desktop installation with Unity and wanted to try KDE, so I ran sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop. apt failed with the […]
Extract album art from MP3 files
Recently I needed to extract the album art from an MP3 file and came across a really easy to use command line utility called eyeD3 […]
KWLUG: Docker Tutorial (2016-04)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Docker published on April 5th 2016. You can find […]
KWLUG: Mastering Photo DVDs, KDEnlive (2016-03)
This is a podcast presentation from the Kitchener Waterloo Linux Users Group on the topic of Mastering Photo DVDs, KDEnlive published on March 8th 2016. […]
Murdering misbehaving applications with xkill
Have you ever had a window in Linux freeze on you and no matter how many times you tried to close it, it just wouldn’t […]
Setting up Syncthing to share files on Linux
Syncthing is a file sharing application that lets you easily, and securely, share files between computers without having to store them on a third party […]
CoreGTK 3.10.2 Released!
The next version of CoreGTK, version 3.10.2, has been tagged for release today. Highlights for this release: This is a bug fix release. Corrected issue […]