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Category: Blog

Find your ideal E Ink tablet with this comprehensive round-up for 2023

2023-12-172023-12-17 Danie
A large eInk tablet showing a mind map type drawing on it. A stylus is poised above the screen surface.

In an era where glowing screens dominate our everyday lives, E Ink tablets offer something a little different, fostering focus and a return to a more traditional reading and writing experience. They may not have […]

Blogeink, technology

29 Years ago Netscape Navigator 1.0 started the web we know today

2023-12-162023-12-16 Danie
Netscape Navigator browser window showing the top menu, with a toolbar with some quick action icons, a URL entry box, and the main pain shows its copyright notice dated 1994.

Netscape Navigator was the world’s first web browser developed for commercial purposes, and it dominated the market until Internet Explorer came out (with Explorer being bundled with Windows). Netscape Navigator 1.0 launched on December 15th, […]

BlogNetscape, retro, technology

How to Use ViVeTool to Enable Experimental Windows Features

2023-12-152023-12-15 Danie
A Windows app window with title ViVeTool GUI. A popup window in the middle shows its title as Manually change a Feature - Enter feature ID. A feature ID number has been entered, and some options appear as Activate Feature, Deactivate Feature, and Revert Feature to Default Settings.

The Feature Store is a system component that manages Windows features. These features can be anything from updating the navigation pane to adding a new Task Manager to introducing tabs in File Explorer. ViVeTool interacts […]

Blogtechnology, windows

Proper Extensions Are Finally Landing on Firefox for Android

2023-12-152023-12-15 Danie
Firefox logo

One of the most-awaited additions to Firefox on Android is extension support. Not only will it help the browser stand out even further from the sea of simple, Chromium-based browsers available on Android, but it […]

Blogfirefox, technology

9 best iPhone Journal app alternatives for Android: Do you want to use them though?

2023-12-142023-12-14 Danie
Part of a keyboard is visible. Next to it is a smartphone showing a shopping with items listed in categories called General and Vegetables.

Yes, Android certainly has some excellent journalling apps too. But before jumping in and using them, you may want to consider why you are doing a journal… Quite often, the content created stays within that […]

Blogdiary, technology

Open source Piwigo photo hosting updates to v14 with some nice improvements like WebP support

2023-12-132023-12-13 Danie
Collage of various screenshots of the new Piwigo v14

Search engine in the gallery gets an in-depth redesign. Piwigo 14 also comes with highly expected support for new image file types like HEIC (the default file type used for photos on iOS and Android […]

Blogopensource, photos, technology

The Withings Scanwatch Light is a smartwatch for those who don’t want one: It’s a watch first, a health and fitness tracker second

2023-12-112023-12-15 Danie
A wrist wearing a gold coloured round watch with analogue hands showing the time as 13:45. On the watch dial near the top, is a smaller circular window showing Mon 4th and 1:45pm.

I see Withings has a few of these hybrid watches. Another quite popular one is their more rugged looking diving watch with 10 ATM water resistance (Withings Scanwatch Horizon, looking more similar to a Seiko/Rolex). […]

Blogsmartwatch, technology, Withings

Why I was on the point of buying a trackball mouse but did not

2023-12-102023-12-16 Danie
A black trackball mouse with a dark red ball on the top

Firstly, I would not have had to pay for the mouse, so money was not the deciding factor (my medical insurance gives me rewards for exercising along with a 20% discount which would have covered […]

Blogmouse, technology, trackball

Jami: A Versatile Cross-platform Open-Source Peer-to-Peer Decentralized Communication App

2023-12-092023-12-09 Danie
Jami screen showing a video conference on the go with a person in front of the screen. Top right is a smaller window showing the camera of the remote party.

I can’t believe I last did a proper post about Jami as far back as 2019 last. I mention it a lot, and it was included run a debate today on my Friendica site, but […]

Blogdecentralised, opensource, P2P, privacy, technology

What Is an Immutable Linux Distro, and Should You Use One? Think of it as Linux booting as a Container Image

2023-12-092023-12-09 Danie
Title says Immutable Linux Distributions, with Linux a penguin image to the right

An immutable Linux distribution is an operating system (OS) that is read-only at its core. That means you can’t easily modify the OS. This includes the file system, directories, applications, and even configurations. Even as […]

Bloglinux, technology

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