Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
Ah, the 1990’s saw computing advancing in massive leaps and bounds. Going from beeps to sound, and from Hercules graphics to EGA before we even got to VGA… In the 1990’s I was enjoying my […]
Advertisers have long been used to paying a central service (whether Facebook, Twitter or even a newspaper) to push adverts into a reader’s feed which they have no choice but to see. Facebook and Twitter […]
Extraverts are naturally inclined to engage in the kinds of personal interactions that build rapport with other people. In normal circumstances, this gives them a distinct edge when it comes to succeeding in school or […]
So, you finally deleted your Facebook account. The misinformation, the scams, the data privacy issues, the odd company decisions (like the one giving politicians a pass to lie) — it all just became too much. […]
In a groundbreaking decision on Wednesday, a UK court ruled that polluted air was a contributing factor to the 9-year-old Ella Kissi-Debrah’s untimely, tragic passing in 2013. She is the first person in the world […]
While a Raspberry Pi thermostat isn’t exactly novel, this particular project was designed with extensibility in mind, so you can easily build any service to communicate with your heating thermostat. The API is exceedingly simple […]
Although I’ve used KDE for many years now I usually default to using Kate as my GUI editor and nano for command line editing, but now I heard about KWrite so took a look at […]
In South Africa we really struggle to get a good range of traditional shaving supplies. Yes we have one or two artisan stores (BunduBeard is one), and we have River Valley Trading, Mantality, and Sharp […]
Yes Google Notes has not changed much over time apart from gaining location alarms, and its tags are a bit cumbersome to work with. These younger developers working on their own come up with far […]
The small form factor of the Raspberry Pi Zero W enables a new range of projects. In fact, a lot of people use the Pi Zero in the final version of the project after prototyping […]
