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Category: Blog

RealVNC is ending their free Home plan but here are some alternatives for remote GUI desktop management

2024-05-162024-05-17 Danie
Web page with title RealVNC Connect and button to click to start a free trial. To the right are two computer screens, one super-imposed behind the other, showing a dotted line connecting the two together.

There is a RealVNC Lite alternative if you look carefully on their website, and that option may well still work for you after June. Unfortunately, RealVNC is pretty good and has excellent mobile clients, so […]

BlogRealVNC, remotedesktop, technology, VNC

Wolf Grid is an OpenSim World With AI Integration and Other Innovations

2024-05-142024-05-14 Danie
Avatar dressed in a black jacket and pants, with a dark red shirt. He has long grey hair and is smoking a pipe. Behind him is a hobbit like scene with lots of green trees and red brick home with white smoke emitted from the chimney. In front of the house a blacksmith is working at a fire. In the foreground are lots of colourful bushes and flowers.

Seems this virtual world is only 3 years old, but it already has a landmass larger than Second Life’s. The reason could also be that land is cheaper than Second Life and there is the […]

Blogautism, gaming, technology, virtualworlds

Manjaro’s Plasma 6 update has gone globally live today

2024-05-132024-05-16 Danie
Manjaro Linux info window showing the Plasma version as 6.0.

This was a major update from Plasma 5.27 to Plasma 6.0, but also along with just about everything else, and was a 6.8 GB download for me. It all went off flawlessly apart from one […]

Bloglinux, manjaro, technology

8 ways Android handles notifications better than iOS

2024-05-122024-05-12 Danie
Smartphone being held by a hand. Screen shows open notificatiosn screen saying Notification test now. This is another notification. Below it is a button marked Manage another button Clear all. Above it are a buttons for Internet, Bluetooth, Flashlight, and Wallet.

Android may have the wrong colour bubbles for messaging, but its users can at least pat themselves on the back for having better managed notifications (those things that can really irritate a person if not […]

Blogandroid, notifications, technology

Garmin SOS fails South African biker after accident

2024-05-122024-05-12 Danie
Garmin InReach staellite communicator - looks like a palm size red and black mobile phone. Display shows "Initiating SOS" with the number 15 shown.

A South African biker’s post-accident medical treatment was delayed after the SOS feature on his Garmin satellite communicator failed to evoke a timely response from emergency services. Rapport reports that Johan Swarts only received a […]

BlogGarmin, motorcycling, southafrica, technology

GCam is a modded version of the Pixel Camera app that you can install on your Android phone

2024-05-11 Danie
Smartphone camera with a white screen background and just a large icon of a camera showing. The background is blurred but shows a blue pen and pencil to the left, and an adaptor plug to the right with four multi-colour leads extending from it.

This app unlocks the hidden potential of numerous Android smartphones. While hardware limitations exist, GCam bridges the gap by leveraging Google’s advanced image processing algorithms. This app finds particular favour among users of devices from […]

Blogandroid, camera, GCam, technology

South African mobile network operators must zero-rate content from approved public benefit organisations

2024-05-102024-05-10 Danie
Two fingers holding five SIM cards spread like a pack of cards: First is yellow with name MTN, second is red with name Vodacom, third is blue with name Telkom, fourth is orange with Name CellC, and fifth is blue with name Rain.

PBOs include non-profit organisations, trusts, and government departments with .gov.za domain names. These PBOs will be required to apply to Icasa to assess whether they meet the requirements for having their content zero-rated. Once approved, […]

Blogsouthafrica, technology

You can automate much of your home and devices with a Raspberry Pi and open-source Home Assistant

2024-05-102024-05-10 Danie
A Raspberry Pi computer standing on top of a computer case. On the left side is a webcam, and on the right side is a white LEB bulb.

This article is a worthy reminder that are already many things in your home which you can automate from garage door openers, to your home router, to a solar system, to lights, to speakers, and […]

Bloghomeautomation, opensource, raspberrypi, technology

40 years later, Kontrabant 2 for ZX Spectrum is rebroadcast on FM in Slovenia

2024-05-092024-05-09 Danie
Retro style 8-bit computer game title screen with title Kontrabant 2 and copyright 1984 Z Turk in M Kmet. The image shows what looks like a street barrier in the foreground with a yellow coloured road stretching into the distance with test 2000 at the end. On both sides are various buildings from a castle, a government office, houses, etc.

Software is almost impossibly easy to download, distribute, and access compared to 40 years ago. Everything is bigger, faster, and more flexible, but there’s a certain charm to the ways of diskettes and cassettes that […]

Bloggaming, retro, Slovenia, technology, zxspectrum

Hackbat: This Raspberry Pi hacking tool is what the Flipper One could have been

2024-05-092024-05-09 Danie
A bvlack coloured circuit board with a small OLED display mounted on top. On the right side of the board are five black press button switches, with one in the centre and four other switches spaced evenly around it.

The whole thing runs off of a Raspberry Pi RP2040 and open-source code. It has modules for NFC, SD card, and Wi-Fi communication, plus it features a miniature display so you can tell what it’s […]

Bloghacking, opensource, raspberrypi, technology

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