How To Fill In PDF Forms Using Okular 0.10.5 & Kubuntu 10.04.4 & KDE 4.4.5

Modern PDF files can have forms for the user to fill out. In some cases, the user wants to fill them out, and hand them in, with the option for somebody else to modify them. I do not know of any ways to do this with actual PDF files. The rest of my post tells you how to fill them in, and then submit them in a way that cannot be modified.

Kubuntu Problems With MS Core Fonts Solved

It is a shame that we still have to struggle with fonts in this day and age. It turns out that Kubuntu 10.04 users need install ttf-mscorefonts-installer-3.2, as opposed to ttf-mscorefonts-installer-3.2ubuntu0.1.

Acer Aspire 5100 Web Cam With Kubuntu 10.04

I tried it out just the other day. Without any configuration, I managed to record a YouTube video. Without any configuration, I was able to use Kubuntu software, to capture the stream, but for some strange reason, it would not record. I tried following instructions on the web, but I do not know how to solve this problem.

If you have any questions or suggestions, then please comment below.

Using iPad With Kubuntu

I wanted to start using my iPad, which I won back in September [or perhaps another month], but I unpleasantly discovered that Apple requires us to install iTunes. Of course, with Linux, this is impossible, as of the time of writing this. Read the remainder of the blog entry on how to get Kubuntu to work with you Apple mobile device.

How To Middle-Click In Hotmail's To-Field

For me, Hotmail's email composer does not seem to work very well, when I use Opera. I have not tried it with the other web browsers. Even though the text field appears very large, I cannot use Linux's middle-click to paste in an email address, as I should be able to.

I found out, by chance, that there is a small part of the field that is available for middle clicking. To make it easier to find, I recommend that you disable any styling of forms.

• View Menu -> Style -> Manage Modes
• Deselect "Enable Styling of Forms".

Opera's Kubuntu Font Problem Partially Solved

I have been experiencing font problems lately. I know that others have. Install metapackage ubuntu-restricted-extras and 10.62 Release Candidate

Wonderful Howto [tutorial] For Playing DVDs On Kubuntu [also Ubuntu and Xubuntu]

I am so happy to finally be able to play DVDs on my Kubuntu 10.04 desktop computer thanks to the Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto. It was made for Ubuntu, but it has a good amount of information for Kubuntu.

This is the holy grail that we've been searching for. The DVD that I tried plays wonderfully.

True Type Fonts Available For Kubuntu

The web seems to classify fonts into 5 categories: serif, sans-serif, mono, cursive, and fantasy. Read the remainder of the blog entry for my recommendations to Kubuntu users. Other Linux users should be able to get them as well.

Use FujiPlay To Connect Fuji MX-700 With Linux

I discovered that Fujiplay does a great job of connecting my Fuji MX-700 to my Kubuntu computer, while digiKam & gphoto2 fail miserably. Fujiplay is not KDE or Kubuntu specific, or specific to any desktop, so it should work fine with all Linux computers.

• Fujiplay
• ubuntu hardy fujiplay binaries
• ubuntu hardy fujiplay man pages

In the remainder of the blog entry, I give the details of why I tried Fujiplay, and then rant a little.

Customized Version Of OpenOffice.org

I found this web site by mistake: Go-oo. It seems that this project is making a better OpenOffice.org version. It also seems that Ubuntu offers it by default. Interesting. As a Kubuntu user, I didn't even know that I was using it.

Fixing gnustep-devel In Kubuntu 10.04, And Building My First Objective-C Program

Update: I moved the text that was here to GNUstep to XCode. I will keep all of my information there, so that everything will be in 1 place. Watch this journal for updates.

Keep reading this blog entry for the highlights of the walk through that used to be here.

Programming iPhone & iPod Applications With Kubuntu

Lately, I've been trying to get involved in programming iPhone applications, but it has been quite difficult. My dad paid for tutorial videos, but it's been difficult to follow along because of the accent and slang of the speaker. To make it even more challenging, I'm trying to get started, using Kubuntu 10.04, instead of Apple products.

This is the information that I found so far.

• Wikipedia Entry On Objective-C
• Objective-C Beginner's Guide [teaches us how to set up the environment for Linux & BSD] 
• Apple's Introduction to The Objective-C Programming Language