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Category: Blog

Steam is hosting a festival for ‘digital tabletop’ games next month

2020-09-30 Danie

Valve and tabletop company Auroch Digital will host an online festival next month for “games that cross between physical and digital.” Called the Steam Digital Tabletop Fest, the event will be streamed live from October […]

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It’s Official — Consumer Reports Confirms EV Owners Spend Half As Much On Maintenance Over A 200,000 Mile Service Life

2020-09-30 Danie

Data is king, and when it comes to information on the frequency of repairs on automobiles, Consumer Reports has more data than anyone. For its latest report, it did a deep dive into the data […]

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How to play Wolfenstein: the new order (and many other Windows games) on Linux

2020-09-30 Danie

The method described using Steam Games and Proton has worked for me with many high-end games on Linux. See How to play Wolfenstein: the new order on Linux #technology #gaming #Linux Wolfenstein: the new order […]

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Unlike proprietary what3words, Google’s Plus Code is open source and freely re-usable for addresses anywhere on Earth

2020-09-30 Danie

According to Google, billions of people don’t have an address, or if they do, it’s not very accurate. To remedy the problem, the company created a digital address-making system called Plus Codes. To get a […]

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Access Dots: Here’s How To Get iOS 14 ‘Orange Dot’ Privacy For Android Phones

2020-09-29 Danie

Android 11 will prevent apps from accessing either without restriction, so permanent permission to use the camera will be a thing of the past. Background usage notifications are all well and good, but are often […]

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Since Discontinuing Google Analytics and Disqus Comments on my website I’ve ditched over 30 trackers and 3rd party cookies, and seeing more visits as many users block Google and trackers

2020-09-28 Danie

At first, I thought something was wrong as I saw so many more visits than I saw with Google Analytics… After digging deeper though I realised its because so many, like myself, block all 3rd […]

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South African non-profit organisation Code for Change has launched a free-to-use coding and front-end web development training platform for South African high school learners

2020-09-28 Danie

The platform is available on both desktop and mobile devices and makes it easy for learners to access the organisation’s CodeJIKA programme. CodeJIKA was launched in 2017 and has reached over 250 schools, 26,500 learners, […]

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Watch this Space as we need freedom of choice: Google says Android 12 will make using third-party app stores easier

2020-09-28 Danie

The announcement addresses recent concerns around Android app development, including a fight over alternate in-app payment systems and difficulties for businesses moving online because of COVID-19. Android users can already install apps through third-party stores […]

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Highly sensitive information about South Africans from Experian breach now freely available online (21,263,393 unique records)

2020-09-27 Danie

This is actually pretty detailed information about over 21 million "people", assuming a unique record represents people as even ID numbers are included. Given that the POPI Act has been a time coming and has […]

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Calibre 5 Released with eBook Highlighting and Page Count Estimates, Switches to Python 3

2020-09-27 Danie

Calibre is a popular piece of cross-platform eBook management, reading, and editing software — and this weekend it saw a new release. Calibre 5.0 is the first version of the app to use Python 3 […]

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