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Category: Blog

Amazon’s $340 10.2″ 300 ppi Kindle Scribe is its first e-reader with handwriting and pen support

2022-09-282022-09-28 Danie
Kindle Scribe

Yes, it seems expensive, but it is in fact cheaper than some competing 10″ eReaders which have a way lower pixel density. These larger format readers with pens are just more expensive, and there is […]

Blogannotate, eink, ereader, kindle, technology

Microsoft’s discontinuing SwiftKey keyboard on iOS next week, but it will continue to work unless you uninstall it or get a new device

2022-09-282022-09-28 Danie
keyboard

Microsoft confirmed that it’s removing SwiftKey from the Apple App Store and ending support for the iOS version of the keyboard app on October 5th. It will still be available if you’ve already downloaded SwiftKey […]

Blogios, microsoft, swiftkey, technology

The Q1 was most likely the first commercially available desktop microcomputer dating back to December 1972

2022-09-282022-09-28 Danie
Q1

According to The Byte Attic, the first commercially available microcomputer was the Q1, based on the Intel 8008 processor. The first Q1 microcomputer was delivered in December of 1972, making it the first, as far […]

Blog#q1, microcomputer, retro, technology, vintage

‘Transparent OLED for Subway Trains’ windows will likely happen whether we like it or not

2022-09-272022-09-27 Danie
TransparentOLED

Advertising has a habit of grabbing any available space where we look, and if train windows are available, I’ll bet it’s going to happen any time soon. No, I’d expect it would not happen on […]

Blog#transparentoled, advertising, technology, trains

Duplicati for Windows, Linux and macOS securely backs up directly to Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, WebDAV or many other locations

2022-09-272022-09-27 Danie
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Open source Duplicati allows you to set your own encryption and compression before efficiently backing up to many remote services. But good candidate targets too are a second drive, or even FTP to a remote […]

Blog#duplicati, backups, linux, opensource, technology

Android 13 custom ROMs are now available for the ancient 10-year-old Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II

2022-09-262022-09-26 Danie
Samsung Galaxy S III next to And

Shows again it is really worth buying an Android phone that has LineageOS support. Once your phone no longer gets OEM updates it is time to think about flashing it with a custom ROM like […]

Blog#galaxysiii, android, lineageos, technology

Beehaw is a Reddit alternative Lemmy site that pledges to be friendly, well moderated, and has disabled downvoting

2022-09-262022-09-26 Danie
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“We’re a collective of individuals upset with the way social media has been traditionally governed. A severe lack of moderation has led to major platforms like Facebook to turn into political machinery focused on disinformation […]

Blog#alternatives, lemmy, reddit, socialnetworks, technology

WoAD brings Winlink e-mail functionality to Android devices using either a VHF/UHF packet or internet connection

2022-09-262022-09-26 Danie
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WoAD brings the functionality of the Winlink Global Radio E-mail® system to your Android device. Using WoAD you can send and receive e-mail messages through a Winlink Common Message Server (CMS), using either a VHF/UHF […]

Blogamateurradio, hamradio, technology, winlink, woad

Penpot is the first Open Source design and prototyping platform meant for cross-domain teams

2022-09-252022-09-25 Danie
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Non dependent on operating systems, Penpot is web based and works with open standards (SVG). Penpot invites designers all over the world to fall in love with open source while getting developers excited about the […]

Blog#prototyping, #svg, design, opensource, technology

Whisper is an open source automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data collected from the web

2022-09-232022-09-23 Danie
whisper

Should you wish to try high-quality voice recognition without buying something, good luck. Sure, you can borrow the speech recognition on your phone or coerce some virtual assistants on a Raspberry Pi to handle the […]

Blog#speechrecognition, AI, opensource, technology

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