Category: Blog

A practical guide below to getting most commonly used services and apps running. In many cases there are good alternatives to Google apps too (such as maps) and some methods include using with mobile site […]

Wearables capture a whole lot of data about us, far beyond heart rate graphs and activity estimates. Fitbit (soon to be owned by Google) thinks it might be able to use some of that data […]

Open source artificial intelligence projects don’t always get a lot of publicity, but they play a vital role in the development of artificial intelligence. Because these open source projects are often pursued as passion projects […]

This video shows how the FaceTrackNoIR software (uses the webcam to watch for your face looking left/right and up/down) makes for easier viewing while driving instead of trying to use keys to look left and […]

I still remember going to the Goodwood Drive-in by the show grounds in Cape Town back in the 1970’s and how we later managed to get better sound in the car using that tape head […]

EA is to open-source TiberianDawn.dll and RedAlert.dll under the GPLv3 license. EA isn’t providing the games as full open-source nor their assets but in this limited step they are aiming to help in allowing the […]

See We Had No Idea You Could Make An Audio Recording Just Using A Cup – Digg #technology #retro Apparently, this setup is reminiscent of the way phonograph cylinders work.

Last week Mount Everest was visible from Kathmandu for the first time in living memory. The picture above, taken from Chobar by Abhushan Gautam, of the world’s highest peak over 120-miles away, would not have […]

Because sometimes you do end up at a real terminal prompt and there is no graphical editor in sight. It’s a long time since this happened to me (thankfully Manjaro Linux is pretty unbreakable) but […]