Monday, July 7, 2025

How to install Converseen on Ubuntu 24.04

 Converseen is a free  cross-platform batch image processor for Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and other  operating systems. It allows you to convert, resize, rotate, and flip an infinite number of images with a single mouse click. Moreover, Converseen can convert an entire PDF document into a set of images with your preferred characteristics. You can choose from over 100+ formats, set the size, resolution, and the filename.

 


What can I do with Converseen?

  • Carry out a single or a multiple conversion.
  • Resize one or multiple images.
  • Compress images for your web pages.
  • Rotate and flip images.

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

How to install GIMP Image Editor 3.0.4 is Available via PPA on Ubunto 24.04

    GIMP 3.0.4, the second update for the major 3.0 release series of this popular image editor, is out!

 


There was a bug with pasting selections from GIMP into other programs, where the pasted section was padded to the original image size. This is now fixed thanks to work from Anders Jonsson, Aruius, and Alx Sa. If you notice any regressions or other issues after this fix, please let us know!

 
GIMP 3.0.4 Changelog: 

 Since GIMP 3.0.2, in the main GIMP repository:

  • 90 reports were closed as FIXED.
  • 59 merge requests were merged.

How to Install GnuCash 5.12 the financial-accounting on Ubuntu 24.04

    GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
 


     GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows.
 

How to install Krita 5.2.9 released on Ubuntu 24.04

     Krita is a free and open source cross-platform application that offers an end-to-end solution for creating digital art files from scratch. Krita is optimized for frequent, prolonged and focused use. Explicitly supported fields of painting are illustrations, concept art, matte painting, textures, comics and animations. Developed together with users, Krita is an application that supports their actual needs and workflow. Krita supports open standards and interoperates with other applications.

 

   Krita 5.2.9! This is a bug fix release, containing all bugfixes of our bug hunt efforts back in November. Major bug-fixes include fixes to clone-layers, fixes to opacity handling, in particular for file formats like Exr, a number of crash fixes and much more! 

 

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

How To Install OpenShot Video Editor 3.3.0 released On Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

 OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.
 

Saturday, March 6, 2021

Install HP Print Drivers HPLIP 3.21.2 on Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10

    HPLIP is a free, open-source HP-developed solution for printing, scanning, and faxing with HP inkjet and laser based printers in Linux.


Drivers HPLIP 3.21.2 Changelog: 

Added support for following new Distro's:

  • Fedora 33
  • Manjaro 20.2
  • Debian 10.7
  • RHEL 8.3
  • RHEL 7.7
  • RHEL 7.8
  • RHEL 7.9

How to install Blender 2.92 released on Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10 via PPA

 Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.


Blender 2.92  highlights:

  • Multithreaded export of geometry, to improves performance in scene synchronization when there are many mesh, hair and volume objects.
  • GPU devices can now take over tiles that are currently being rendered by CPU threads to improve hybrid rendering performance.
  • NVIDIA OptiX
    • Hybrid rendering with CPU and GPU devices is now supported.
    • AO and Bevel shader nodes are now supported.
    • NVIDIA driver version must be 450 or newer, due to an upgrade to OptiX 7.1. This makes it possible to render more object instances.
  • Intel Iris and Xe GPUs can now be enabled for OpenCL rendering