Moon “mode” photo taken on my Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra
The phone uses AI to recognise it as a moon photo, and opens an aiming square (top left of the screenshot) which helps find the moon at full 100x digital zoom. It uses AI to […]
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OBS Studio Movable Pointer Overlay For Superimposed Images Or Videos
Having a mouse pointer captured as part of a desktop being streamed, is quite easy. But I wanted to have various images and videos superimposed over that desktop view in OBS Studio, and the mouse […]
Audible and Beyond: A Guide to the Best Audiobook Services
There’s more than one way to enjoy a good book. You can read it in the form of an eBook on a Kindle, or take it in the good old-fashioned way as a physical book. […]
LastPass’ breach could’ve been stopped with a 3-year-old Plex update: Demonstrates danger of remote users not updating their systems
We learned more details about the second LastPass hacking incident last week — a malicious party installed a keylogger onto a senior engineer’s home computer through an exploit in Plex, the personal cloud service for […]
Inspect the RF realm with augmented reality (AR) and a tinySA pocket-sized spectrum analyser
Intellectually, we all know that we exist in a complex soup of RF energy. Cellular, WiFi, TV, public service radio, radar, ISM-band transmissions from everything from thermometers to garage door openers — it’s all around […]
Nextcloud announces it has a SharePoint replacement ready for production use, and that Deutsche Telekom has made Nextcloud Office available to their users of MagentaCLOUD
This announcement is noteworthy for a variety of reasons, starting with the obvious: it offers an alternative to Microsoft’s (and to a lesser degree Google’s) near monopoly when it comes to enterprise ready collaboration software. […]
Simon’s Town historic 9-inch rifled muzzle loading cannon (RML) will fire 5 times during 2023 in Cape Town
A historic 9-inch rifled muzzle loading cannon (RML) is one of the South African Naval Museum’s premier exhibits and its firing is proving a major attraction for the Simon’s Town-based museum. Permission was granted and […]
I’m using the PowerToYou widget to show battery levels across iOS as well as Android devices
I did a post back on 7th March 2022 (nearly exactly a year ago I see…) when I compared this app to Cloud Battery on iOS, and I ended up using the PowerToYou app from […]
Proton VPN now has an official browser extension (Chromium and Firefox) without requiring desktop app installation
Proton has released a Proton VPN browser extension compatible with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Opera, and most other popular browsers except for Safari. The company said in a support document that Safari “doesn’t support […]
Google Drive PDF Annotations is Live, and Magic Eraser feature for all Google One Subscribers
The annotations feature for PDFs on Google Drive is available to all users, and is something that was sorely needed, as if you ever needed to sign or fill in a PDF form on Google […]