The latest flash plugin versions 11.2.202.228 and 11.2.202.235 have many problems with Nvidia cards. In a previous article I have shown you How to fix the Blue tint on videos with Flash and Nvidia. Another problem is the leaking overlay. This causes flash to "leak" into other pages or solid black backgrounds. This bug is caused due to incorrect colour key being used by flash plugin. Here is how to fix it.
Wikipedia Lens for Unity allows you to serch Wikipedia articles directly through Unity Dash. When you click on a result it will automatically open in Firefox, Chrome, Opera or whatever browser you have set as default. For the time being you can't filter the displayed results. To install it open a terminal and type:
Recently I came across Facebook Resource for Akonadi which makes events, contacts, notes and messages from Facebook available in KDE. In other words you are able to see your Facebook friends through KAddressbook and their birthdays as well as Facebook events in KOrganizer. Moreover events and birthdays are also shown in the Plasma clock calendar. All this data is available offline thanks to Akonadi. So let's take a look on Akonadi-Facebook.
Nowadays most high definition content is in MKV format. However a lot of devices don't support this container. Instead they support the MP4 format. In this guide I will show you how to convert your MKV video files to MP4 and hardcode subtitles. For this guide I will use VidCoder. VidCoder is a DVD/Blu-ray ripping and video transcoding freeware application for Windows. It uses HandBrake as its encoding engine. Therefore apart from MKV you can convert any AVI/DVD/Blu-ray files into MKV or MP4.
I am using Amarok as my mp3 player in KDE for many years now. I also have many playlists saved for various cases. In this guide I will describe you how you can use Amarok to sync your local collection with your Android mobile phone or tablet.
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