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Tomorrow is Software Freedom Day (SFD), a time of celebration around the world for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).

For over 20 years the graphical GNOME desktop environment included an application called Document Viewer or Evince that was capable of displaying common document file formats such as a PDF or TIFF.

In the process of trying to provide the best transparency and attribution for material produced by others I’ve made an oversight.

There are often many ways to achieve a certain task, but what is not always obvious is the more productive way to accomplish them.

When I first started trying to formulate this blog series I didn’t quite understand what exactly I was trying to achieve.

While researching various topics for blog posts and browsing the Internet I often find myself trying to locate hyperlinks or links on a web page to explore additional information.

I’ve been busy for almost two months filled with life challenges that makes me feel like it never seems to end.

If one works with spreadsheets eventually there will come a time when the information needs to be processed and converted to the plain text data format called Comma Separated Values (CSV).

I came across an intriguing blog post by Antonio Santos, Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You and then a reply to the blog post by Kev Quirk.

June felt like a very active time more than it usually has been.

Quite sometime ago I wrote about how to find the operating system install date or age for GNU/Linux and Windows for the curious minds at heart.

When doing maintenance for this static generated website I found myself in a situation where I wanted to find a YAML (YAML Ain’t Markup Language) key within the front matter of all published Markdown based posts that is undefined or has a value of null.

A few days ago I was doing the usual browsing of Mastodon posts and started noticing a lot of bloggers referring to “Junited”.

Modern operating systems today mostly focus on the current and latest hardware available in the market.

Over the course of time using a GNU/Linux or Unix operating system there will come a time when the default associated application needs to be changed.

One of the oldest media aggregator and podcast client for GNU/Linux, macOS, Unix and Windows is gPodder.

Another month and another new issue of all the unearthed little gems of the Internet that I’ve found in the month of May.

There is nothing more frustrating and annoying than having your computing workflow interrupted with unnecessary application notifications when using the graphical desktop environment GNOME Shell.

I was surprised to learn that there was no easily found way to customize the font inside Mozilla Firefox’s Reader View.

Several weeks ago I was fed up with how my room was a mess and incomplete.

So I did a dumb mistake.

I was playing around this weekend on improving the way the chat overlay looks on my Owncast stream.

On April 8th, 2026 the freedesktop.org’s xdg-user-dirs (XDG User Directories) project releases version 0.20 and as a result closes an outstanding issue that has existed for more than eleven years.

Let’s be real, there are endless online services and software applications that one can choose from to track and log the books you’ve read, are in progress of reading or are going to read.

Each and every month I get the privilege and joy to create and publish this wonderful link dump blog series to the world.

In word processing page numbers (page number, page count, page count in range) can be easily added to any document, but surprisingly many often do not include them.

There are some that think or even voice their opinion that the web (Internet) is dead, and it is nothing more than a dumpster fire of trash.

I come to realize that I like to savour the time I have alone.

Any graphic design project requires a certain amount of assets to achieve depth and interest that draws attention from the viewer.

The GNOME desktop environment introduced a new free and open source graphical application to their Core Applications suite called Loupe.

The one thing that has been lingering in my mind to the point of serious concern for myself and others, is the threat of potentially loosing our right to freedom on mobile devices such as phones and tablets.

It is without a doubt a frustrating and perplexing experience when one tries to run a software application to find out that it no longer loads.

It is unfortunate that I sit here now typing away about reviewing the year of 2025 and almost a quarter of 2026 has past by.

Gaining graphic design skills can be challenging, but with the use of Inkscape, a feature rich free and open source vector graphics editor one is able to learn and explore any time one desires.

I have to admit I almost forgot to make a post about a special day that is dear to my heart and comes each year on February 14th called I Love Free Software Day.

The past month and almost a half has been a busy one for me.

Having a well maintained electronic mailbox is what helps to reduce stress and allow one to quickly conduct tasks with ease and without complications.

One day I walked over to my Danby Designer chest freezer to take something out of it and I discovered that most of the items were covered in a thin amount of moisture that formed into ice crystals.

Christmas festivities of 2025 this year broken up over three days of celebration.

On January 13, 2026 the Mozilla team has released a new version of the Firefox web browser bring new features, improvements and fixes.

December for a lot of people is a busy time a year as one prepares for festive activities, celebration and gift giving.

Dolphin is the default free and open source file manager application for the desktop environment KDE Plasma that allows the user to navigate and conduct file management tasks.

With the release of GNOME Shell version 49 (a.k.a.

After many years of development and published releases still to this day there is one question that continues to be asked, how to change the hyperlink or link default colour appearance in the email client application Mozilla Thunderbird.

Dear reader, the passage of time is an inevitable one, but it doesn’t make it any less unbelievable we are on day 359 of 2025 with only 6 more days to go until the new year.

Turn a dull GNOME Shell graphical environment on GNU/Linux or Unix operating system into an exciting one with Gnomelets by unleashing the charming, yet retro styled 2D animated pixel characters.

With LibreOffice having the feature of themes it has made the user experience a better one.

Well it’s about time I get this new issue of Little Bits dusted off and released to the world.

Buying gifts for someone can be challenging at times and some of those people you are buying for may not have a gift list to help point you in the right direction.

I’m not one to really get excited about the sales going on for Black Friday or Cyber Monday because the trend seems to be for several years now that most items that are on sale are mostly cheap quality products or the sale price is not much of a savings to