One of these things that work without being noticed, is your system tray, or in short ‘systray’. It is the small area on the taskbar (aka ‘menu bar’ on Mac or ‘notification area’ on Windows) where active processes or programmes
Een boek scannen
Soms is dat nodig: de inhoud van een boek digitaliseren. Er zijn bedrijven die dat voor je doen, maar je kunt het ook zelf. Kost even wat tijd en moeite, maar Linux heeft er de nodige software voor. De procedure
Stille e-mail
Ik ben een fan van Vivaldi. Het is inmiddels mijn enige webbrowser. Maar er moet uiteraard iets zijn om je te pesten. In het geval van Vivaldi de onmogelijkheid, of de onwil, om ‘mailto:‘-links netjes af te handelen. Uitleg: als
Migrating KMail
Upgrading a computer also includes migrating your email. In my case that means migrating KMail, the email client embedded in KDE’s PIM suite Kontact. I have done that before and it was pretty straightforward: just copy the mailbox backup to
Migrating to KDE neon
About every fifth year the daily worker on Linux will need a major system upgrade. That is not a minor thing. After many happy years on LinuxMint with a KDE desktop environment I had to make a decision. Starting with
Extracting sound from video
For various reasons people may want to extract the sound from a video file. To have that wondrous movie theme on your music player, or add it to your own video project. To use famous conversation lines elsewhere. To save
Multimedia on Linux
To play CD’s, DVD’s, mediastreams, downloaded movies or anything like it, it is said to use VLC, de VideoLAN media player. Because ‘it will play virtually anything you throw at it’. And it is also very much cross-platform. That is
Display stress
Until now I am still with LinuxMint 17.3, based on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (‘Trusty’). Although this platform will be supported until 2019, increasingly applications start to get stuck, since newer versions require a newer Ubuntu version. But… upgrading was a
O, wacht… mijn wachtwoord…
De wereld is overvol van wachtwoorden, pincodes, inloggegevens, bsn-nummers, klantnummers en weet ik wat niet al. Ik droomde dat ik bij Sint Pieter kwam – en mijn pincode was vergeten… Ik moest natuurlijk eerst weer terug. Gelukkig zijn er handige
PDF editing revisited
In the past I have posted about PDF tools and handling PDF forms. On Linux you can do a lot without expensive proprietary software, but that may be a bit of a cumbersome job, also requiring commandline actions. Now I