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  • PDF Editors For Linux

    This post is brought to you by the new Blogger interface Google has forced on everyone! Which is dreadful! The only way I keep my sanity editing posts on Blogger is to create the post in a separate editor (LibreOffice Writer in this case) and then paste the completed article into Blogger. There is much…

  • Firefox Multi Account Containers vs User Profiles [3]

    After a bit of playing with a few settings I am returning to my expectation of multiple FF profiles to handle container isolation-like capabilities. The problem with containers is when you do need tracking information to be exchanged between Facebook and another site. With my WordPress blogs they are set to auto publish to a…

  • Firefox Multi Account Containers and Equivalents [2]

    OK I have managed to simplify this from yesterday. I now expect to have just single user profile in FF and do the following: Window 1 will be the one on the main screen of my PC and it will be the one that mainly I am using MACs. The MACs will be geared around…

  • Firefox Multi Account Containers and Equivalents

    Since these days I now use Firefox as my main browser (partly to give the finger to Google for the data thieving Chrome browser), I need to have a look at how to access all my Gmail accounts in the same browser without having to log in and out of whichever account I am using…

  • OpenSong, Video editing, Computing resources optimisation [2E]

    OpenSong is a FOSS open source worship presentation package that is produced for Linux, Windows and macOS platforms. It was first released quite a few years ago, and is a bit out of date, with presumably no regular maintenance at present. Obviously my interest will stem from it being both FOSS and Linux capable. I…

  • Free Linux video editors [2]

    I have written a few times about video editing, in May this year I talked about a few free packages I had tried out that didn’t work. As mediapc now has more memory and a better hardware spec, I am planning to install Blender, Handbrake, Lightworks and ShotCut on it and see if those packages…

  • Optimising Gimp’s temporary and swap storage

    Whilst Gimp is a great piece of software, its default behaviour is to put temporary files into the home drive. If for some reason it needs to cache to disk it can become very slow. For me, I thought that creating my swap partition on the SSD would address this. However Gimp doesn’t make use…

  • Best open source software

    Here’s my picks: Debian GNU/Linux. One of the oldest distros around and definitely among the best, many others are derived from it. First released 24 years ago. I now use Debian on my desktops daily, generally with XFCE desktop environment. Xubuntu Linux. After trying a few variants of Linux and Ubuntu this was the one…

  • More useful Linux software

    Obviously one thing you need with an operating system platform is software that will run on it. Every platform has stuff that is produced cross-platform and stuff that is only for its platform, and we constantly have the issue that something we want to run is not available on the platform we use most of…

  • Inkscape Vector Graphics Editing Software

    Inkscape stands out as a very good vector graphics editing software package with a breathtaking array of features and functions. Simply finding your way around the user interface is somewhat daunting but gives a clue as to the scope of the development of the project to date and the lengths to which the project has…