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“A package manager is a little bit like an app store, but it is both more fundamental and more versatile. Unlike app stores, which primarily deal with distributing first and third-party applications, package managers can […]
Number 5 interested me specifically as I recently installed Zenarmor to monitor my network from the inside using packet inspection. It demonstrated point 5 quite well in showing what the apps on mobile phones actually […]
SmokePing can measure, store and display latency, latency distribution and packet loss. SmokePing uses RRDtool to maintain a long term data-store and to draw pretty graphs, giving up-to-the-minute information on the state of each network […]
Recently, when I was changing banks, I applied for a credit card, and was surprised to hear after a week’s delay that it was declined due to financial misconduct. This is after decades of paying […]
I picked up on this today after noticing ZenArmor blocking masses of attempts on my network from a mobile device trying to phone home for an app called Appsflyer. It seems it is embedded into […]
“But when I wanted to actually study the content, make notes, or review everything without distractions, I realized how limiting YouTube really was. There is no easy way to extract the content, structure it, and […]
I do love my 3D TV, so this looks quite interesting. But lots of information not really given, so it is difficult to tell whether there is processing in the display too, or is it […]
This looks quite interesting, as I was saying just this week, I’d love to see proper lens attachments for Android phones. Ideally, though, I was wanting more standardisation on the lens positioning and a provision […]
So many of us just use an editor for basic document or text file editing, but this editor does go way past that, and is also a very user-friendly graphical user interface too. The editor […]
“Starting today, Bluesky is rolling out a new verification system, complete with the familiar blue check marks popularized by Twitter. The highest-priority accounts right now are government officials, news organizations and journalists, and celebrities.” This […]
