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Category: Blog

Amazon finally has a colour Kindle, and it looks pretty good

2024-10-162024-10-16 Danie
A Kindle ereader showing a home page with colour thumbnails of books.

For years, Kindle users have asked Amazon to make a colour version of its e-reader. Now, the company is finally delivering: it’s launching the new Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition, a device that has a lot […]

Blogereaders, reading, technology

A Phone? A Ham Radio? Relax! It’s Both!

2024-10-162024-10-16 Danie
A hand holding a green coloured rectangle shaped circuit board, with a soldering iron tip poised over it.

A lot of hams like to carry a VHF radio. Of course, nearly everyone wants to carry a phone. Now, thanks to the kv4p HT, you don’t have to carry both. The open-source device connects […]

Blogamateurradio, hamradio, technology

How to Install ZRAM to Boost Ubuntu Performance

2024-10-162024-10-16 Danie
Shows cartoon outline of an integrated circuit chip with letters inside zRAM.

If you’re using Ubuntu and want to improve your system’s performance, especially on machines with limited RAM, ZRAM is a great solution, as it creates a compressed block device in RAM, which helps to manage […]

Bloglinux, opensource, technology, ZRAM

DC Releases New Range of Webcomics Formatted for Mobile Devices

2024-10-162024-10-16 Danie
Three different comic images showing tall narrow aspect ratios.

DC Comics has announced DC GO!, “a new frontier of webcomics” available exclusively on the DC Universe Infinite app—the company’s official digital subscription service for web, iOS, and Android. Comics have long been able to […]

Blogcomics, reading, technology

South African doctor building breakthrough apps – Real Innovation is needed for Change

2024-10-142024-10-14 Danie
Three young men, all wearing white open neck shirts, standing outside of what looks like a restaurant in the background.

A South African doctor hopes to transform the medical field by developing products and services that solve problems typically experienced by remote and underfunded state hospitals and clinics, reports Rapport. One of these projects solves […]

Bloghealth, southafrica, technology

The 30-year-old internet backdoor law that came back to bite

2024-10-102024-10-10 Danie
A few routers stacked on top of each other. Various Ether cables are plugged in, and green LED lights can be seen by each connector.

News broke this weekend that China-backed hackers have compromised the wiretap systems of several U.S. telecom and internet providers, likely in an effort to gather intelligence on Americans. The wiretap systems, as mandated under a […]

Blogbackdoors, security, technology

Open Source Android Find My Device app that works without any Google services

2024-10-102024-10-10 Danie
App screen full of detailed text describing how a remote picture can be taken with the app, or how to factory reset the device.

You can control FMD (and thus your phone) either via SMS or via FMD Server (server can be self-hosted too). You send a command to the phone (e.g. “fmd ring”) and the phone executes it. […]

Blogdegoogle, findmydevice, opensource, technology

Openvibe is a single iOS and Android app for Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr decentralised networks

2024-10-092024-10-09 Danie
Title that says openvibe town square for open social media Mastodon Bluesky Nostr Threads.

Often we have different friends on different social networks. This app allows you to have a single timeline to read across all these popular decentralised social networks, and to also cross post to all of […]

Blogdecentralisation, openvibe, socialnetworks, technology

Missing Thunderbirds footage found in British garden shed

2024-10-092024-10-09 Danie
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Previously unseen footage from the classic British TV show Thunderbirds has been found in a garden shed and restored – where possible – for viewing next year. The family of a recently deceased former editor […]

Blogtechnology, Thunderbirds, vintage

Will IPv6 ever replace IPv4? It’s like moving from Windows to Linux

2024-10-092024-10-09 Danie
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Yes, well over 10 years that IPv6 has been formally announced and in the process of being rolled out (and out, and out). Reading the linked article though regarding backwards compatibility, it does remind me […]

Blognetworking, technology

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