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Category: Blog

How to Transfer Any eBook to Kindle Using Calibre – Because Kindle Still Cannot Read ePub

2020-03-08 Danie

The Kindle is a bit crippled when it comes to supporting formats outside of Amazon’s own formats so Calibre helps you do this, as well as organising all your side loaded eBooks. With one of […]

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Classic Old Time Wet Shave by the Guardian Angel of Route 66 in Seligman AZ – Over 7 million views of this video!

2020-03-07 Danie

The Route 66 Wet Shave: HairCut Harry experiences a shave from the yesteryears in Seligman, Arizona by the guardian of U.S. Route 66, Angel Delgadillo. Filmed at Angel and Vilma’s Route 66 Gift Shop and […]

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Brave deemed most private browser in terms of ‘phoning home’ – the new Microsoft Edge and the Yandex Browser deemed the most data greedy

2020-03-07 Danie

New academic research published last month looked at the phone-home features of six of today’s most popular browsers and found that the Brave browser sent the smallest amount of data about its users back to […]

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How to create a Twitter List (and join others) – An easy way to clean up your Twitter feed

2020-03-07 Danie

Many Twitter users follow thousands of other accounts, and seeing all of those accounts in one chaotic timeline can be overwhelming. If you’ve ever wished you could see a limited Twitter timeline made up of […]

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The grandfather of distributed computing projects, SETI@home, shuts down – one of the first efforts that successfully convinced home users to donate some of their free computing time to help

2020-03-07 Danie

Over the weekend, the people who manage the SETI@home distributed-computing project announced it would be going on hiatus at the end of March. The project was one of the first efforts that successfully convinced home […]

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Iran’s Answer to the Virus Outbreak: Cut the Internet – We know there is misinformation caused deliberately by humans but will we see more of this?

2020-03-06 Danie

Moments after Iran announced that a top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader had died as a result of the coronavirus, the government blocked access to the Persian version of Wikipedia. Netblocks, a digital rights advocacy […]

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My summary of the most secure cross-platform instant messengers – there are 5 very good one’s but it depends on your finer criteria – not one was 100%

2020-03-052024-01-03 Danie

This is not an exhaustive list but I took the most commonly mentioned one’s and threw in WhatsApp and Telegram for benchmarking. The criteria I was looking at included what type of hosting (and whether […]

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What is Linux and Why There are 100’s of Linux Distributions? Explained in a simple analogy

2020-03-05 Danie

Before embarking on a Linux journey its always good to understand the context of the kernel, the desktop environment and package (applications) management. The kernel is the same (apart from different versions decided on my […]

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Chocolatey – an open source package manager to manage your Windows program installations and updates

2020-03-05 Danie

Linux and MacOS have long had package managers to install and help manage updates for applications. Windows users have usually had to resort to individual installs and updates reliant on the app itself. Chocolatey is […]

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Raising the Titanic’s Radio Room – How Radio Nearly Did, And Then Did, Change The Course Of A Disaster

2020-03-05 Danie

During her brief life, Titanic was not only the most elegant ship afloat but also the most technologically advanced. She boasted the latest in propulsion and navigation technology and an innovation that had only recently […]

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