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Easy Spreadsheet Calendars with khal

A short time ago I needed to make a calendar in a spreadsheet in which all the months are situated vertically one after the other on the same sheet. There are two possible solutions here:  Find a calendar for 2026 and then laboriously type in numbers. (And then laboriously go back and proofread the entire …read more…

Make Your Cursor (i.e., Mouse Pointer) Disappear in Linux (when you’re typing, that is)

Image of a mouse cursor

One of the most annoying things I run into when using a computer is that I click in a box to start typing, and the cursor is blocking what I’m typing, so I can’t see it. (This also happens at work when I’m Windows 11.) It’s annoying, because sometimes I make a typo and I …read more…

Extract Audio from Video using ffmpeg

The great thing about using Linux is that you have a number of command line tools that can accomplish tasks and are generally faster than GUI-based alternatives. The Linux tool for manipulating video files is ffmpeg. Its official documentation is here and one version of the man file is here.  General Use The format for …read more…