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Category: Blog

Apple Tested Blood Sugar App for Preventing Type 2 Diabetes

2024-10-252024-10-25 Danie
Square object with rounded corners. It is divided into layers with white at the top, cyan in the middle layer, and blue at the bottom later. In tyhe centre of the top white later, is a red heart symbol.

Select employees with prediabetes were invited to test the app, which offered assistance with food selection and lifestyle changes. Employees who participated confirmed that they had prediabetes with a blood test, and then actively monitored […]

Blogdiabetes, health, technology

How to Turn Any Website Into an Android App (and Why You Should)

2024-10-252024-10-25 Danie
Phone screen with a window open stating "Create a Lite App". It prompts for a name for the link, and the URL.

Imagine accessing your favourite web-only tools as native apps on your Android smartphone. Or, better yet, having separate instances of the same app logged in from two or three different accounts. That’s just scratching the […]

Blogprivacy, technology

Passkey portability is what the password-less future needs: FIDO Alliance standard coming

2024-10-252024-10-25 Danie
Smartphone show bold blue, red, yellow and green diagonal bars across the screen. In the centre is a pop-up window stating "You can now use your passkeys to sign in". Below it is a graphic showing a yellow key on a keyring, and a blue tick symbol.

Just like your house key, passkeys are unique to the lock they go in, at whatever service they were set up to unlock. That could be your bank, your social media account, your email provider, […]

Blogpasskeys, security, technology

BoxBuddy – graphical manager for Distrobox

2024-10-242024-10-24 Danie
Window with title BoxBuddy. On the left is a list of various Linux distros installed such as arch, ubuntu, etc. In the centre are options listed for Open terminal, Upgrade box, View applications, Clone box, and delete box.

Distrobox is software which creates and manages container-based development environments without root privileges. It lets you run a wide range of Linux distributions on a single host system. It’s not reinventing the wheel. Distrobox is […]

Bloglinux, opensource, technology

OpenSnitch is a comprehensive open source Linux application firewall

2024-10-232024-10-23 Danie
Two open windows. One on the left is a popup titles Firefox ESR and stating that Firefox ESR is connecting to lwn.net on TCP port 443, and has button optiosn for Allow, Deny, for this session, and from this command line. The right window is titled OpenSnitch Network Statistics, and is a long list of connections showing for each one the time, node, action, destination, protocol, and the process.

This is not a simple firewall to get started with as it can be a bit of an uphill battle to get all the outgoing connections vetted (if you want to filter those), but I’d […]

Blogfirewalls, opensource, security, technology

Flyby11 is a Rufus-like app is here to help you dodge Windows 11’s system requirements

2024-10-222024-10-22 Danie
must have apps on windows 11

Microsoft has been clamping down on the methods people use to dodge Windows 11’s system requirements, but some third-party apps have kept fighting to dodge anything thrown at them. For instance, Rufus has been a […]

Blogtechnology, windows11

Happy 20th Anniversary, Ubuntu!

2024-10-222024-10-22 Danie
Orange background with Ubuntu logo and words Happy 20 Anniversary Ubuntu

Exactly 20 years ago today, on October 20, 2004, the 4.10 “Warty Warthog” release of the Linux distribution with the strange and unfamiliar name Ubuntu debuted under the company’s slogan “Linux for human beings.” For […]

Bloglinux, opensource, technology

Good password manager comparison table

2024-10-212024-10-21 Danie
A spreadsheet comparing various password managers. It has all the compared features in the left most column, whilst along the top the names of each service appear. For each service, there is then a yes or a no, in the column for that service next to each feature.

This spreadsheet was compiled by Reddit user r/Passwords summarising the key features per password manager. Just don’t read too much into the numeric scores, as you need to first decide for yourself which are your […]

Blogpasswords, security, technology

Streamyfin is an open source mobile app for Jellyfin with some extra features

2024-10-212024-10-21 Danie
Smartphone showing a movie summary on the screen for The Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring with date 2001.

This is designed to work with an existing Jellyfin server, so you should be able to even install and use this alongside any existing Jellyfin mobile apps you have installed. It lists the following additional […]

BlogJellyfin, opensource, streaming, technology

Winamp Open Source Story Is Over: A lesson in what open source actually is

2024-10-21 Danie
Winamp's lightning logo with words WINAMP END OF STORY

In the last five months, Winamp, the iconic music player from the recent past, has been on quite a journey. It started with exciting news, which caused great enthusiasm, but sadly, things didn’t turn out […]

Blogmusic, opensource, technology

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