I just happened upon an interesting little bonus feature in Kubuntu 22.04 with KDE Plasma 5.24.7 that I thought I’d share since it’s so nifty. It’s possible to add a…
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Continue readingI just happened upon an interesting little bonus feature in Kubuntu 22.04 with KDE Plasma 5.24.7 that I thought I’d share since it’s so nifty. It’s possible to add a…
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Continue readingMy son recently went on a field trip. The teachers who went with him took hundreds of photos… on their iPhones. Since I want the photos of him, I downloaded…
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Continue readingIn the 22.04 version of Ubuntu/Kubuntu, Firefox was switched from a repository to a snap. I don’t know enough about the technical reasons for that, but it does mean that…
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Continue readingI don’t do this very often, but occasionally I need to write a letter or something of that sort and I want to use an image as a background to…
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Continue readingI regularly collaborate with scholars around the world. One problem that arises from that, however, is that we have to coordinate time zones. As a result, I have picked up…
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Continue readingI have email going back to 2003. There have been times when I have actually benefited from my email archive. Several times, I have gone back 5 or more years…
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Continue readingI don’t always review products on Amazon. I don’t have the time. But there have been two instances over the past year when I have been contacted by someone because…
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Continue readingI’ve had a Ring doorbell (and security system) for quite a while. I never bought the chime that goes with the doorbell because it has always worked through my Amazon…
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Continue readingThanks to the fine folks at VLC and Ubuntu, watching DVDs on Linux is generally pretty straightforward. Install “libdvd-pkg” and follow the prompts and you’re generally good to go. That…
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Continue readingI run a network attached storage (NAS) device at home to manage all my media (e.g., music, videos, photos, etc.). I have used various programs over the years to manage…
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