GadgeteerZA's Blog

Vivaldi mobile browser due in 2019 -- but no ad blocking... on the upside there will likely also be a non-web based e-mail module too

Visited Dassiesfontein farm stall today to enjoy their traditional Farmer's Breakfast

Not all Bluetooth 5-enabled smartphones are created equally, here’s why

5 best code editors for Linux users

Linux laptops alive in South Africa - By Dell at Least

Single Blade Razors With A Pivot?

The Complete Guide for Using ffmpeg in Linux - Literally the "Swiss Army Life" of media file manipulation in Linux

A surprising number of people trust AI to make better policy decisions than politicians

Sony launches Wena smartwatch strap internationally - it adds subtle "smart" to existing classic mechanical watches

Largest cannabis expo on African continent in Cape Town next weekend - Certainly a new opportunity opening up in the economy

Omron HeartGuide - The First Smartwatch to Read Your Blood Pressure Is an Ugly Marvel

Ranking Juices By How Healthy They Are - Surprise! Most juices are less fix-all tonics, more sugar-overdose fructose bombs

Secure Your Linux Server With Fail2Ban [Beginner’s Guide] - Helps in securing your Linux server against malicious logins

50 Fascinating Facts About Cats

AnyTone AT-D878UV Dual-Band DMR Radio

New app takes African short stories to the world

Google has revealed Stadia’s internet speed requirements - But no latency requirements?

No Coincidence that YouMe Social is starting to look much like Google+

Your AirPods Will Die Soon - The surprisingly short life of new electronic devices

The role of amateur radio in providing emergency electronic communication for disaster management around the world

15 Most Secure Linux Distros for Privacy and Security Concern Users - Anyone using the top-rated Qubes OS?

How to Recycle Your Used Multiblade Razors - Safety Razor users don’t need this as they dispose of clean metal blades

What Is Sandalwood And Why Is It In My Shaving Stuff?

A first look at Microsoft’s new Chromium-powered Edge browser - This could be your new default browser on Windows

Dirty lies: how the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions for profit at the expense of many lives

Jaguar’s R1.7-million I-Pace electric car test drive in South Africa - But best news is charging station installation footprint for long distance

NexDock 2 Turns Your High-End Android Phone or Raspberry Pi into a Laptop for $179

How to stream music from your phone in an older non-Bluetooth enabled car using a simple Bluetooth FM transmitter

Survey of 1,705 people who live near wind turbines prefer them to solar and fossil plants - The preference for wind is strong even in US coal-producing states

As air pollution gets worse, a dystopian accessory is born - Will we all soon be wearing face masks like we wear sunglasses?

Why Do We Need So Many Different Messaging Apps? Slack, Signal, Hangouts, Wire, iMessage, Telegram, Facebook Messenger - There is no SINGLE messenger

Inside Garageband, the Little App Ruling the Sound of Modern Music

How farmers could help save South Africa from rolling blackouts

Google Stadia uses a custom AMD chip to offer 10.7 teraflops of cloud gaming power

UK code breakers drop Bombe, Enigma and Typex simulators onto the web for all to try

How to set up emergency location sharing on Android and iOS - Two minutes of simple setup, and your smartphone could save your life

Google+ public posts are being preserved by the Internet Archive

My Impressions of the TicWatch Pro after two weeks use

MeWe social network exceeds 4 million members as privacy violations hurt Facebook and Twitter

WordPress now powers One-third of the web's websites!

Air Carbon Capture’s Scale Problem: 11 Astrodomes For A Ton Of CO2

How to Unlink Dropbox Devices to Meet the New Limits for Free Users - Free users only get three devices now

Has The World Been Duped by “Big Razor, Inc.”? Is Less More? The problem is widespread education in the art of wet shaving without billion dollar ad budgets

If you think Facebook has no competition, just ask Telegram who experienced a spike in registrations during the recent Facebook outage

Android Q’s Desktop Mode is real, here’s your first look

Firefox and Vivaldi have great vertical tab functionality but you can nearly replicate it on Chrome/Chromium/Brave using vTabs

Netflix will now work on Brave Browser from version 62 by easily installing Widevine

Why Digital Detoxes Don't Work - Like Diets You Either Change Your Lifestyle Or You May Be Wasting Your Time

Vodacom launches eSIM support in South Africa - their OneNumber will allow customers to use a single mobile number across multiple devices