No phone signal? LastBar will find the nearest place that has it.
“LastBar is a map of where mobile phones have signal and where they do not, made by the phones of the people who use it. When you are stuck with no bars, it gives you […]
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You can now tell telemarkers to get lost officially in South Africa
“South Africans can register blocks against direct marketers on the government’s new National Opt-Out Registry now – not from May 2027, as the National Consumer Commission’s (NCC’s) own launch statement indicated – the commission has […]
Someone Vibe Coded a Free and Open Source Knockoff of Adobe Creative Suite
“Using Claude Opus 5.5 and the programming language Rust, the creator of these apps, Atlanta-based Brandon Thomas, says he recreated Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, Acrobat Pro, After Effects, and InDesign, and made them free to […]
Best Rolling Release Linux Distros for Every Kind of User
“Every Ubuntu or Fedora user eventually hits the same wall. The six-month update cycle stops feeling exciting and starts feeling like a chore, or worse, a two-year LTS jump breaks half your configuration in one […]
Dutch tax office ditches Microsoft 365 cloud for on-premises alternative
“The Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration has abandoned its planned Microsoft 365 cloud migration in favour of services hosted on infrastructure it controls, alongside European open source alternatives. Email and calendars will move on-premises in […]
Voicebox can clone your voice from a few seconds of audio on your own PC
“Voicebox is an open-source and free-to-use voice studio created by Jamie Pine, who is the founder of Spacedrive Technology Inc. It is distributed under the MIT license, pitched as a local replacement for two paid […]
Map Animator makes animated route maps for travel and adventure videos, right in your browser
“It’s made for people who film their trips: motorcycle tours, cycling, hiking, road trips and sailing. Draw the route or use your GPX recording, give it a look, and get a video clip that shows […]
Honor’s Magic 9 Pro Max Has a Shotgun Mic and a 500mm Lens Mount
“The Honor Magic 9 Pro Max launches in China on September 28 with a directional “shotgun” microphone, ARRI cinema color, and a lens mount that takes a 500mm teleconverter. If you shoot video on your […]
Veilamp is an open source music player that also streams your music to friends
You really have to see this cross-platform player to believe everything it does. Apart from all sorts of technical music listening tweaks, it can act as a headless music server on your own network, or […]
First for South Africa as robotic exoskeleton aids Table Mountain rescue
I can really sympathise with this situation as it happened to me as well a few years ago. We hiked up the mountain and planned to come down with the cable car. But many hours […]