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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to IBM SPSS Modeler

2022-01-262022-01-26 Danie
Data Mining

IBM SPSS Modeler is a data mining and text analytics software application. The program is used to build predictive models and conduct other analytic tasks. While SPSS Modeler is available for Linux, it’s proprietary software. […]

Blogalternativeto, analytics, datamining, opensource, technology

Disney+ launching in South Africa and 41 other countries

2022-01-262022-01-26 Danie
Disney

More options are always good, but this likely comes at a cost because you’ll probably find Disney titles disappearing off other services in these markets, forcing users to decide or pay for an additional service… […]

Blogsouthafrica, streaming, technology

Google has a new plan for replacing browser cookies with ‘Topics API’ – Fact is you have to choose between adverts, donors or subscription payments for anything online

2022-01-252022-01-25 Danie
Google Chrome

Browser cookies, especially cross-domain cookies, make it easy to track people across the internet and collect data for targeted advertisements. That’s why many browsers now block third-party cookies, from Firefox to Vivaldi, and Google has […]

Bloggoogle, technology, tracking

Remembering Flock Social Browser – Why do no browsers today have integrated social media?

2022-01-252022-01-25 Danie
Flock

Flock was based on Chromium a good 10+ years ago. It fully integrated various social media sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, YouTube, Digg, and a few more, along with RSS, and even had a […]

Blogbrowser, retro, socialnetworks, technology

Employers in denial over success of digital skills training, say exasperated staffers in 4 First World Countries

2022-01-252022-01-25 Danie
useless seminar

The report is the result of two surveys taking in over 2,000 managers and more than 4,000 employees across the US, UK, France, and Germany. It found that 59 per cent of employers state that […]

Blog#digitaltransformation, #training, skills, technology

Mastercard rolls out ‘Tap on Phone’ that allows a customer contactless card to tap and pay via a phone (no hardware terminal required)

2022-01-252022-01-25 Danie
tapping mastercard on phone

This cuts out the existing separate hardware terminal that has until now been issued to merchants. This system requires only a phone with NFC (and of course the Mastercard merchant app). Tap on Phone allows […]

Blogbanking, mobile, NFC, SMME, technology

Where to start with: Agatha Christie (The Original Queen of Crime)

2022-01-232022-01-23 Danie
agatha

I have every one of Agatha Christie’s around 113 novels and play adaptations (paper editions), and have enjoyed reading most of them more than once. Her books are way better than watching a condensed film […]

Blog#crime, books, reading

The making of the Equinox Grillmeister Barbecue app

2022-01-232022-01-23 Danie
making of en

This was an app that probably impressed me the most many years back, and the one app that I really missed when I moved from an iPhone to an Android phone (although it technically could […]

Blogiphone, mobile, technology

Square Kilometre Array vs James Webb Space Telescope: It’s not just about the frequency spectrum differences

2022-01-222022-01-22 Danie
ska

So why do we still need the SKA? This article aims to clear the cosmic air and give some context as to why newer isn’t necessarily better – just different. Both telescopes operate outside the […]

Blog#telescopes, space, technology

Wolfing down ebooks during lockdown? You might want to check out free, open source, and cross-platform Calibre, the Swiss Army ebook tool

2022-01-222022-01-22 Danie
ebook

Calibre converts almost any file type into almost any other file type, so you can read whatever you want, wherever you want, no matter what format it’s in. It’s free and runs on Windows, Linux […]

Blogebooks, opensource, reading, technology

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