Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
There is a large contingent of unpaid volunteers writing Wikipedia entries in South African languages. Wikipedia is the only non-commercial and mostly volunteer-driven platform in the world’s top 10 most visited websites. To help contribute […]
I rediscovered this weather app again (for Android and iOS) and am quite amazed that it now has a 4.9 out of 5 rating on the Google app store, and 5m+ downloads just on Android. […]
LibreTranslate is a machine translation API which is entirely self-hosted. This software lets you use open source machine translation in your projects. It uses Argos Translate for its translation engine. It supports quite a few […]
Bridgy Fed turns your web site into its own Fediverse account, visible in Mastodon and beyond. You can post, reply, like, repost, and follow Fediverse accounts by posting on your site with microformats2 and sending […]
Whether you use AMD, Intel, or Nvidia GPUs, your graphics card comes with an application that offers additional settings to tweak your GPU. Owners of Nvidia cards have access to the Nvidia Control Panel and […]
Many install custom ROMs on their Android phones to escape Google, but there are also many using custom ROMs on, for example, Huawei phones that don’t come with Google pre-installed. But as Android users you […]
DuckDuckGo is primarily known for its focus on privacy. But the search engine (and now browser) offers several helpful features, many of which aren’t even available on Google or Bing. So if you are new […]
I’m busy looking into xdotool to automate various actions on Linux with the Elgato Stream Deck (well because Elgato only provides apps for Windows and MacOS). There is a good Linux alternative app to work […]
If you’ve been an Android enthusiast lurking in the modding scene, or an app developer for any length of time, sooner or later, you will stumble upon a neat tool called the Android Debug Bridge, […]
This is a Github collection of lists that link to numerous “awesome” sites on various technology related topics. The topics often cascade down into sub-topics too, so there are real rabbit holes to fall down […]
