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Figure out where your money is going with this LibreOffice Calc budget template – Good example of not needing to use paid MS Office

2020-03-02 Danie

In this article the author steps through a sample budget by explaining the logic behind important money decisions as well as the formulas you need to automate the process. Fortunately, LibreOffice makes it easy for […]

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Top Economists Study What Happens When You Stop Using Facebook – Spoiler it’s all positive apart from not being up to date on ‘news’

2020-03-01 Danie

In the most recent issue of the prestigious American Economic Review, a group of well-known economists published a paper titled “The Welfare Effects of Social Media.” It presents the results of one of the largest […]

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Electric vehicles in South Africa – Government is a big problem with 7% higher import duty than on regular cars – under 500 sales since 2013

2020-03-01 Danie

This is a really dismal picture and no wonder the sales are so few – what country imposes a higher tax on electric vehicles? That combined with grid load shedding and way fewer charge points […]

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Following Brave Browser’s built-in functionality there is now an extension for Chrome and Firefox to view deleted webpages using the Wayback Machine

2020-03-01 Danie

If you ever browsed the web and were disappointed when a page you were looking for no longer existed, you can use a Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox browser extension to automatically retrieve the deleted […]

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The IoT Shutdown Trap – I could reflash my Sonoff switches and hack my weather station to redirect – What’s your plan with IoT?

2020-02-29 Danie

Many devices today are managed / enabled by a cloud service and without it (or the access goes down) you have a paperweight. I’ve seen it happen with the Chumby and the Pebble watch too, […]

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For traditional wet shaving which do you prefer and why: Shaving Soap or Shaving Cream?

2020-02-29 Danie

One of the most important elements of a wet shave is a good lather. A thick, dense, rich, frothy, smooth, . . . ahem, sorry, lost my train of thought. A drool worthy lather makes […]

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How to check your commute in Google Maps – With finer control over Commute to/from Work settings too

2020-02-29 Danie

And of course Google just changed the UI about a week back to confuse everyone… Google has long had work/home places but now you can state specifically what days you commute to work, and when […]

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When AI Can’t Replace a Worker, It Watches (Assists) Them Instead

2020-02-29 Danie

Whether software that digitizes manual labor makes workers frowny or smiley will come down to how employers choose to use it. So it will boil down to ethics. But you can also look at it […]

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Tulsa, Oklahoma is actively attracting remote workers to settle in their town – maybe this is a future for small rural towns with good Internet connectivity

2020-02-28 Danie

Many small rural towns are struggling for survival as job seekers departed for large cities to find work. What workers found in large cities often was traffic jams, crime, little contact with neighbours, and more […]

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Collabora Office Brings Power of LibreOffice to Android & iOS for editing .doc .docx .pptx, .xlsx, .dotx, .xltx, .ppsx .odt and many more documents

2020-02-28 Danie

Collabora Office is a free and open source office suite for Android and iOS. It is powered by LibreOffice and developed (in part) by open-source consultancy firm Collabora. But unlike previous ‘LibreOffice for Android’ style […]

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