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Category: Blog

Chumby gets a new kernel… soon

2022-12-222022-12-22 Danie
Photo of a Chumby device showing word 'Chumby' on its front touch screen

They were relatively inexpensive Linux appliances, with a touch screen, that acted as a clock, Internet radio, and feed reader. They launched in the mid-2000’s before we all had smartphones, and was meant as a […]

Blog#chumby, #chumbylives, gadget, technology

Make your noisy recording sound like pro audio with Adobe’s free Enhance Speech AI tool – Up to one hour long or 1 GB in size

2022-12-212022-12-21 Danie
Image of a microphone with sound proof walls behind it

Using Enhance Speech is free, but it requires creating an Adobe account and works best with a desktop web browser. Once registered, users can upload an MP3 or WAV file up to one hour long […]

Blog#adobe, #enhancespeech, AI, audio, technology

URLCheck open source app for Android acts as an amazingly customizable and powerful intermediary when opening url links

2022-12-202022-12-20 Danie
Screenshot of app's welcome screen

This application acts as an intermediary when opening URL links. When you do so, a window containing information about the URL is displayed, allowing you to make changes to it as well. Specially useful when […]

Blogandroid, opensource, technology, URL

Mouse whisperer – a physical USB dongle that fakes your presence at your computer, but ‘should you’ just because you can?

2022-12-202022-12-20 Danie
Photo of a laptop with dongle plugged into the USB port

To be fair, Andrey Malyshenko] does list other plausible use cases for what amounts to an automatic mouse wiggler. Like many of us, Andrey isn’t a fan of logging back in from screen locks, and […]

Blog#mousewhisperer, #presence, login, security, technology

How to measure your body composition on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 5 series

2022-12-192022-12-19 Danie
Photo of a wrist wearing a Samsung Galaxy smartwatch

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 and its predecessor are among the best Android smartwatches on the market. Besides their excellent performance and features, these wearables can track all your key health metrics. The BIA (Bioelectrical […]

Blog#bmr, health, samsung, smartwatch, technology

XDA Developers have tested almost every smartphone that hit the market in 2022, and these are our picks for the best of the year

2022-12-172022-12-17 Danie
Title image for article show three phones layered on each other with text saying XDA Best of 2022

I generally find XDA Developers a very hand-on type publication, and I’ve long been using their forums too for Android custom ROM assistance, so I usually enjoy reading their particular “best of” articles. Too many […]

Blog#bestof, mobilephones, technology, xdadevelopers

Google introduces a beta version end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web (body and attachments), but not yet for personal accounts

2022-12-172022-12-17 Danie
Screenshot showing encryption settings for Gmail

Google announced on Friday that it’s adding end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to Gmail on the web, allowing enrolled Google Workspace users to send and receive encrypted emails within and outside their domain. Once enabled, Gmail client-side […]

Blogemail, encryption, gmail, privacy, technology

Some of Google’s biggest rivals are coming together with the hopes of creating new open source services to knock Google Maps from its mapping throne

2022-12-162022-12-16 Danie
Screenshot of a mapping app with 3D buildings

On Thursday, the nonprofit Linux Foundation announced its own open project that’s meant to collate new map projects through available datasets. And several other major companies have come out of the woodwork to support it […]

Blog#overturemapsfoundation, googlemaps, mapping, opensource, technology

Samsung strips out the Settings shortcut widget, but you can achieve the same shortcut results with the QuickShortcutMaker app

2022-12-152022-12-15 Danie
Screenshot of app showing list of apps and a search box

Many Android smartphones come with a Setting widget built-in which can be used to add direct shortcut to desired settings on Home Screen but many mobile phone manufacturers such as Samsung remove the preinstalled Setting […]

Blog#settings, android, shortcuts, technology, tips

Lessons learnt building and maintaining South African Government National Treasury’s open source open budget data viz portal

2022-12-152022-12-15 Danie
Screenshot from video showing title slide of presentation saying Lessons learnt building an accessible budget data portal

Wonderful to see not only open source tools being used for a taxpayer funded project, but that the code is also published on Github, with the issues being logged and managed there too. This is […]

Blog#vulekamali, nationaltreasury, opensource, southafrica, technology

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