The same way you can use the GNU/Linux command line to troubleshoot the brightness of your laptop backlight, it is also possible to discover a lot about your audio card from a text terminal. This can come in handy when trying to figure out the cause of problems with the sound system.
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You can adjust the brightness of your laptop’s screen from the command line to make sure it is working properly. Keep reading to find out how.
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Marginalia are to the sides of a document what headers and footers are to its top and bottom. Marginalia allow you to make your texts more interesting and clearer for the reader. Let’s see how to create them in LibreOffice.
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The Kdenlive video editor is simple for beginners, but also powerful enough for those that need to go that extra mile. Distributed under a Free Software license, it is available for GNU/Linux, MacOS X, and as a live DVD for Windows users.
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Say you work for Mashley Faddison, an online dating site which handles sensitive user information. Say you suspect somebody is fiddling with files that should best be left alone. Say you want to catch said somebody in the act…
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To many users, security begins and ends with anti-virus and malware protection and regular software updates. But there is much more to security, and the more you understand the reasoning behind it, the more you can make intelligent choices when applying system security measures.
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Creating watermarks in LibreOffice is not hard and they can help you enhance your documents significantly, allowing you to include your companies logo or the status of your documents right into the text.
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Brushes are a central concept in Krita. Unfortunately, Krita’s documentation is incomplete and outdated, so here is a summary of how they work.
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Screen edges are one of the simple yet powerful options introduced in the KDE fourth release series. Screen Edges refer to hotspots on the edge of the screen, each of which is programmable with one of sixteen options and activated by moving the cursor or a window towards them.
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Krita, KDE’s answer to Photoshop and GIMP, comes with over 120 brushes. These brushes imitate media ranging from pens and pencils to water colors and acrylics, and textures from bristly to wet. However, if these are not enough, you can find dozens of additional brushes online, including ones designed for GIMP and some basic ones…
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Ardour brings sophistication, stability and a metric ton load of cool features to the Open Source audio editing world.
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More than any other single feature, Page styles elevate Writer from the status of run of the mill Word Processor to that of capable Publishing Program. However, for years I thought that page styles had a major flaw: unlike many publishing program, I could see no practical way of repeating an image automatically each time…
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