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Category: Blog

Feeeed is a reader app that goes beyond tracking RSS feeds with an extra bell and whistle

2024-03-112024-03-11 Danie
A mobile phone app screen showing a news feed with titles and a thumbnail image for each news item.

RSS feed apps are a really great way to focus on what you want to see and read about, but once you’ve read the feeds, the app is blank as it only shows what is […]

Blognews, RSS, technology

Proton Mail Now Also Lets You Hide Your Real Email Address

2024-03-072024-03-07 Danie
A pop up window with a heading saying Create alias. Below it prompts for a title, alias, forwarding options, and a text note.

Proton Mail is one of the best alternatives to Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail out there, with end-to-end encryption, tracker blocking, and phishing protection among the features on offer. A free account gets you 1GB […]

Blogmail, spam, technology

sleek is an open-source cross-platform todo manager based on the todo.txt syntax

2024-03-072024-03-07 Danie
Screen split into three vertical panes. Largest one taking up just over half the screen on the right lists various todo items with checkboxes next to each, and they are grouped under headings A, B, and C. To left is a pane showing filters for priority A, B or C, projects with label names, and contexts, due date, etc. On the far left is a narrow column for tab management with a +, filter, etc.

Stripped down to only the most necessary features, and with a clean and simple interface, sleek aims to help you focus on getting things done. All classic todo.txt attributes are supported and enhanced by additional […]

Blogopensource, technology, todo

A New Headset Aims to Treat Alzheimer’s With Light and Sound

2024-03-072024-03-07 Danie
Pair of glasses with wide white frames. At the ends of the frame where the ears would be, are two headphones mounted which will fit over the ears.

In results from a Phase II trial published March 6 in the journal Frontiers in Neurology, the company showed that its novel treatment is safe and reported early hints that it may also have benefits […]

Blogalzheimers, health, technology

QDirStat is an open-source GUI app for Linux and macOS to show and clean directory space usage

2024-03-052024-03-05 Danie
A file explorer type window showing a tree list of folder, with some stats on the right side, and below it is a colour block display depicting the size and type of files using space.

I’ve been using the command line NCDU for a while. Whilst NCDU is nice and fast and does allow navigating the directory tree, you had to go to a file explorer separately to delete anything. […]

Bloglinux, opensource, technology

A monitor with a KVM switch was exactly what my dual PC setup needed

2024-03-022024-03-02 Danie
A rectangular box with numerous ports for USB, VGA, etc.

The right tool for the job can often make things very much easier. A KVM switch is ideal for switching quickly between two or more computers whilst using the same peripheral devices. But also consider […]

Blogproductivity, technology

A Non-Technical Introduction Video to Meshtastic Off-Grid Radio Communications

2024-02-292024-02-29 Danie
A teal colour background with two small Meshtastic radios shown on the right side, and text title on the left side saying Meshtastic off-grid comms, a non-technical introduction

This is an open-source solution that works with inexpensive LoRa radios, and your mobile phone or laptop, to be able to pass messages directly, or in shared channels, between the various nodes with no Internet […]

BlogMeshtastic, offgrid, opensource, technology

Determined maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbour’s music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers

2024-02-282024-02-28 Danie
Red rectangular box with a black front plate. The front has a small LED screen showing some text that is not easily readable, and black plastic push button. In front of the box lies a small square circuit board with some components on top of it.

Reggaeton Be Gone (the name is a homage to Tv-B-Gone device) will monitor room audio, it will identify Reggaeton genre with Machine Learning and trigger comm requests and packets to the Bluetooth speaker with the […]

Blognoise, technology

Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data

2024-02-272024-02-27 Danie
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From at least 2014 to 2020, Avast harvested user web browsing information through its antivirus software and browser extension, according to the FTC’s complaint. This allowed it to collect data on religious beliefs, health concerns, […]

Blogprivacy, technology

Trail Sense: Android Open-Source app for entirely offline use for hiking, backpacking, camping, and geocaching

2024-02-272024-02-27 Danie
In background a blurred image of a mountain, and in foreground is title text saying Trail Sense for Navigation, Weather and Astronomy

Trail Sense is a tool, and just like any other tool that you bring into the wilderness, it’s essential to have backup equipment and skills. One of its goals is that its features should make […]

Bloghiking, opensource, technology, trails

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