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Startup Unveils Revolutionary New Rechargeable Alkaline Batteries Alkaline batteries can be made far more cheaply and safely than today’s lithium-ion batteries, but they are not rechargeable. That issue, along with the superior power of lithium-ion […]
LastPass doubles price of its Premium plan, removes features from its free service tier As a long standing Premium customer of +LastPass, a doubling of the annual price leaves a pretty sour taste in my […]
Speeding Up Your Podcasts Won’t Solve Your Problems To fight the growing wave of podcasts released each day, a group of people have started listening to their favorite shows at hyperspeed. The only problem: They […]
'Fitbit' for the blind: Echolocation-based smartwatch aids sightless steps The Sunu band smartwatch, designed for people with visual impairments, uses a sonar sensor to detect objects and people within a 15-foot range. When it does, […]
Open Gazettes is the largest freely available online collection of government gazettes in South Africa OpenUp, the Southern African Legal Information Institute, Indigo Trust and the African Networks of Centers for Investigative Reporting (ANCIR), with […]
TastyIgniter – Powerful FOSS online ordering, reservation and management system for restaurants TastyIgniter is a seamless solution of tools rolled into one, providing: kitchen management, order management, customer and staff management, store management, table reservations […]
Turn on Your Phone’s Kill Switch So It’s Useless If Stolen Plain and simple advice for iOS and Android users to locate or lock their devices after being lost or stolen (nothing new but worth […]
Bluetooth Battery Level Indicators are Finally Coming to Android AOSP A really useful feature for those of us with Bluetooth headsets and other devices is finally making its way to AOSP: Bluetooth battery level indicators. […]
LineageOS 14.1 (Android Nougat) for the Huawei P9 Lite The Huawei P9 Lite is a mid-range smartphone released in 2016 that features the HiSilicon Kirin 650 SoC, and as such has not seen as much development effort as […]
Kolab Now: LibreOffice Online office suite now available for all power-users Via +Simon Phipps: We decided at The Document Foundation not to try to offer a public deployment of LibreOffice Online, as it would be […]