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Here’s a little-known iPhone trick that you’ll definitely want to remember, to close (and auto close) tabs on Safari browser

2021-05-29 Danie

I thought this may be of no use but when I long pressed on that icon I was surprised to see I had 74 tabs open in Safari browser on my iPhone. A normal press […]

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Devs of open source Freenode IRC (Internet Relay Chat) have quit and launched Libera Chat – Thousands of users and channels have already migrated

2021-05-28 Danie

Developers of the open source organization Freenode are quitting en masse after Andrew Lee, a tech entrepreneur and the Crown Prince of Korea, has taken control of the network in what developers are describing as […]

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A new study from the University of California shows further evidence that pollution raises the risk of dementia

2021-05-28 Danie

A new study from the University of California, Davis adds to the growing body of evidence demonstrating a link between traffic-related air pollution and an increased risk of age-related dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease. "Much […]

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Facebook Tracks Your iPhone Location Via Photo Uploads Even When EXIF Info Is Stripped Off by Facebook — This Is How To Stop It

2021-05-28 Danie

The nitty gritty is that using the Facebook app itself to post photos to Facebook does the removal of the location data (because only shares from Apple Photos itself strips out the location data) but […]

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Meet CutefishOS: A New Manjaro Community Spin That Looks Like macOS – But You Could Adapt Your Existing Linux Distro Too

2021-05-28 Danie

CutefishOS is based on Manjaro Linux fueled by its in-house desktop environment called Cutefish Desktop Environment (CDE). It looks similar to JingOS made for tablets and computers with touch input and JingPad A1. Design-wise, the […]

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MightyScape: One Inkscape Plugin Collection To Rule Them All – There are 194 extension folders with 335 .inx files inside

2021-05-27 Danie

Inkscape is an amazing piece of open source software, a vector graphics application that’s a million times more lightweight than comparable commercial offerings while coming in at the low, low price of free. The software […]

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Hack: Adding Wifi to a non-WiFi Weather Station (and in theory anything else with radio)

2021-05-27 Danie

The article below is quite a detailed breakdown of the approach followed to capture the initial radio signals from the outdoor weather sensor (a SDL dongle is very effective for this) and the rest deals […]

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New Touchscreen Technology Improves Contrast of E Ink Screens – Will Be Especially Good For Colour E Ink Screens

2021-05-27 Danie

Yesterday E Ink announced the launch of a new touchscreen technology for ereaders and e-notes that improves contrast of E Ink screens by 40% for color Kaleido screens and 30% for black and white Carta […]

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Unreal Engine 5 Hits Early Access, Linux Still Supported – Games Resolution Will Be Looking Really Realistic

2021-05-26 Danie

Epic Games today pushed Unreal Engine 5 out to early access. Like with UE4, Unreal Engine 5 continues offering native Linux support and allowing use of the Vulkan API. Unreal Engine 5 is not yet […]

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How to install Sqlite Browser on Linux – The Sqlite Browser is a GUI editor for SQLite databases

2021-05-26 Danie

It is an excellent tool for any workstation that is used for heavy SQLite database manipulation, editing, etc. In this guide, they go over how to set up the Sqlite Browser on Linux. SQLite is […]

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