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Category Archives: Kubuntu

HOWTO : KSquirrel is a better image viewer

Saturday, October 6, 2007

I’d heard mention of KSquirrel in other neighborhoods before (Gentoo and Debian systems mostly) and thought anything would be better than gwenview. I was right. It’s much faster and a major improvement. It was a little tricky to install, but I was able to do it. Here’s how:
Installing KSquirrel
From the above link, click on Downloads [...]

Filed in Desktop, Feisty Fawn, Graphics, GwenView, Image Viewer, KDE, Konqueror, Kubuntu, Multimedia, konsole, ksquirrel | Comments (0)

Converting a MPG to DVD Using ManDVD

Thursday, July 12, 2007

In my quest for the perfect program to use for burning DVD’s from AVI or MPG I found ManDVD. It’s very nice. It reliably creates quality output. Overall I am quite pleased with the application and I do find myself returning to use it, so I’ve spent some more time with it. Because of the [...]

Filed in Feisty Fawn, KDE, Konqueror, Kubuntu, Multimedia, Software Reviews, Video | Comments (1)

How to install a DEB in Kubuntu

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Having chosen to dedicate myself to Kubuntu, I needed a proper way of installing Debian packages. These files can be found across the .net as ending with a .DEB extension.
 KDE, Kubuntu, and Konqueror make this process easy. Simply right click on the downloaded file and then select Package Manager -> Install Package.

Filed in Feisty Fawn, File Management, KDE, Konqueror, Kubuntu, Tips & Tricks, Tutorial | Comments (2)