Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
This video takes you through my decision-making process and reasons for ditching my Samsung Galaxy Watch 7 (and other smartwatches) for a modern, retro-styled Casio ABL-100WE watch. The video starts with the straw that broke […]
“Elon Musk’s social media echo chamber X-formerly-Twitter introduced a new feature over the weekend that shows the location where its users have been tweeting from — a move that has exposed an embarrassing problem for […]
Finamp is really beautifully designed and dedicated music player that connects to your existing Jellyfin music library. There are a number of improvement sin the beta version already, so I’d recommend you aim to use […]
“If you’ve ever wanted to keep an eye on your surroundings without sending data to third-party servers, you’ve probably heard of Frigate. The open-source is a popular choice as an NVR that runs locally and […]
“FreeDV is a suite of digital voice modes for HF radio. Our flagship mode is the Radio Autoencoder (RADE). You can run RADE using a free GUI application for Windows, Linux and OSX that allows […]
“Microsoft has moved away from its legacy ClearType fonts. This includes familiar names like Calibri, Candida, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel, and Segoe for Western languages. Microsoft is now using Aptos as the new default font […]
“As Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses continue to turn your face into a computer, with a camera and speaker, Even Realities is doubling down on a design that eschews those components. Instead, it’s focusing on extending […]
Both AFFiNE and Joplin Notes are intended for creating and editing notes, with a view to building up your searchable personal knowledge base. My video does an in-depth dive comparison between AFFiNE and Joplin Notes […]
No, not I, as I had replaced Microsoft Office many years ago. But nevertheless an interesting read and a good reminder that most folks don’t really NEED Microsoft Word, with all the great alternatives around […]
This may have happened to you if you use the normal standalone Portainer under OpenMediaVault 7 (instead of OMV 7’s built-in container management). Typically, you’d see Portainer complaining it failed to connect to the local […]
