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Category: Blog

Review: South Africa’s Clicks branded Double Edge Razor Blades for R13 for 5 Blades

2024-09-012024-09-01 Danie
A pack of razor blades that are branded with the name Clicks. It states it is German Technology, and they are double edge blades, with 5 blades in the pack.

I just spotted these blades a week ago at Clicks in South Africa, and thought I’d better buy them to try out, seeing we have a really dismal selection of blades in retail stores in […]

Blograzorblades, southafrica, traditionalwetshaving, wetshaving

Free Your Music from the Cloud with Open-Source Volumio Pi

2024-08-312024-08-31 Danie
An open laptop with a blue colour body. On the screen is a picture from behind a person who is wearing headphones and working on a laptop. To the right of the laptop is a small cloud with a cable leading to the laptop, but the cable has been broken. Above are a pair of headphones and a blue speaker with two black speaker cones. To the left is a smartphone showing a music player on its screen.

Volumio is a free, open-source music player designed to unify all your music in one convenient place. In addition to offering its range of streaming boxes for purchase, Volumio also supports a variety of third-party […]

Blogmusic, opensource, raspberrypi, technology

Putting a Raspberry Pi inside a Docker Container

2024-08-312024-08-31 Danie
Docker logo, which is a whale underwater with some of it protruding above the surface. Stacked on top are a couple of squares which represent containers. At the bottom is the word docker.

The Pi container emulates an entire Raspberry Pi from the ground up, allowing anyone that wants to deploy software on one to test it out without needing to do so on actual hardware. All of […]

Blogdocker, raspberrypi, technology

Alaska man busted with 10,000+ child sex abuse images despite his many encrypted apps

2024-08-302024-08-30 Danie
Blue background with neon coloured light blue lines criss-crossing like a circuit board. In the foreground is a locked padlock also all made from neon coloured light blue lines.

Privacy is not about protecting criminals. It is a default that all folks should be able to enjoy, just the same as having the freedom to walk down any public road (well OK, pavement or […]

Blogcrime, privacy, security, technology

Bluesky adds ‘anti-toxicity’ tools and aims to integrate ‘a Community Notes-like’ feature in the future

2024-08-292024-08-29 Danie
Blue sky background with the white outline of a butterfly. To the right is a woman standing with her arms folded, and smiling at the camera.

Dunk tweets originated on Twitter as a form of abuse that involves someone using the quote-tweet feature to add their own commentary that mocks, disparages or refutes the original post in such a way that […]

Blogsocialnetworks, technology

South Africa’s Gauteng e-Panic button app tested — with impressive results

2024-08-282024-08-28 Danie
Brick wall background with a hand holding a smartphone. On the screen is a Crime Prevention badge with a big blue button in the centre marked Emergency Assist.

MyBroadband tested the Gauteng provincial government’s e-Panic button and was impressed with its user experience and overall performance. Upon its launch alongside a physical panic button fob in May 2024, the province described it as […]

BlogSOS, southafrica, technology

Starlink by SpaceX to offer free emergency SOS on ALL phones worldwide

2024-08-282024-08-28 Danie
A post on X by Elon Musk stating: After thinking it through, SpaceX Starlink will provide emergency services access for mobile phones for people in distress for free. This applies worldwide, subject to approval by country governments. Can’t have a situation where someone dies because they forgot or were unable to pay for it.

While Emergency SOS via satellite is literally life-saving, the implementation by smartphone companies is not going to be free, at least not for long. This defeats the purpose of the feature and could even be […]

BlogSOS, starlink, technology

South Africa’s Home Affairs needs a visible Dashboard for Uptime Monitoring of Service and Network Uptimes

2024-08-282024-08-28 Danie
Front of a bland caramel coloured government building, with numerous people standing outside in front and waiting for service

There’s an old adage that says ‘What you cannot measure, you cannot manage’ which is actually not fully true, because many things have to be managed that do not have any hard metrics to go […]

Blogopensource, quality, southafrica, technology

Radio Shack Catalogues Online in Flipbook format going back to 1939

2024-08-272024-08-27 Danie
An assortment of Radio Shack catalogues set out on a wooden surface. The title appears in the middle, saying Radio Shack Catalogs.

In the virtual corridors of RadioShackCatalogs.com, a digital archive unfolds like a time capsule, preserving the history of RadioShack from its inception in 1921. As a venerable retailer, RadioShack had been a cornerstone of innovation […]

BlogRadioShack, retro, technology

Arc Search’s iOS browser is finally coming to Android

2024-08-272024-08-27 Danie
Hand holding a smartphone. The screen is blue and a caption in white says “Get what you want twice as fast”.

Arc Search brings a fresh approach with its collapsible menu, making it easier to manage your tabs. Instead of juggling multiple open tabs, everything you need is neatly tucked away in one place, cutting down […]

Blogbrowsers, technology

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