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[HOWTO] QuickTip: Specify where CUPS prints PDF files in LMDE
Most Linux distributions come with CUPS PDF, a virtual printer that lets you print any document as a PDF file, either already installed or an easy install away. Ubuntu generally stores the documents in...
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The unofficial Linux Mint Debian Edition KDE respin gets updated to UP5
Updated 29 September 2:00 pm: Problems have arisen with the ISO for LMDE KDE UP5. As a result we’re asked to NOT get the ISO until it’s been fixed. As soon as I see the problem is resolved I’ll post an...
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[HOWTO] Quick Tip: Watch videos without your browser with Minitube for LMDE
Back in 2009 I wrote about an app called Minitube that lets you watch YouTube videos without using a tab in your web browser and last year I wrote about yet another a change from YouTube that broke...
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[HOWTO] Webshots is now Smile, and it seems to work on Linux
Updated 8 October 4:00 pm to explain what the Auto Update option in the Smile settings panel is for. When I was a Windows user I found Webshots, a great app for getting new desktop wallpaper images....
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[HOWTO] Quick Tip: Closing the Smile Desktop on Linux
Last week I wrote about getting the Smile Desktop working on Linux and I said that you had to go to your task manager to close it. Since I wrote that I found an easy way to close it without resorting...
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Run Linux or the MacOS and need to run Windows apps? Get a FREE copy of...
In the past I used CodeWeavers’ software to run Windows apps on my Linux system thanks to a giveaway they did a few years ago but unfortunately my free year of support ran out a while back. Lucky for...
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[HOWTO] Does your Linux install has laryngitis? I found a fix for you.
The software sources on my Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) KDE install includes deb-multimedia.org (dmo), and one of the packages I get updates for is ffmpeg. I get updates from dmo more often than I...
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Peng’s Chrismukkuh 2012 desktop screenshots
With Christmas a few days away I realized I hadn’t made screenshots of my desktop for the Chrismukkuh season this year. Here’s what my laptop’s desktop looks like this year. As always, click on the...
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LMDE KDE is dead. Long live SolydK!
This morning Linux Mint’s Clem Lefebvre closed the latest LMDE KDE thread over in the Linux Mint Forums as he posted an update that started with this quote from Schoelje, the person who put together...
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The mintCast talks about SolydXK
Thursday I wrote an article about the new SolydXK Linux distribution and I was thrilled to be able to (finally) listen to this week’s mintCast podcast where I heard talking about SolydXK for the second...
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