GadgeteerZA's Blog

The IoT Shutdown Trap - I could reflash my Sonoff switches and hack my weather station to redirect - What's your plan with IoT?

For traditional wet shaving which do you prefer and why: Shaving Soap or Shaving Cream?

How to check your commute in Google Maps - With finer control over Commute to/from Work settings too

When AI Can’t Replace a Worker, It Watches (Assists) Them Instead

Tulsa, Oklahoma is actively attracting remote workers to settle in their town - maybe this is a future for small rural towns with good Internet connectivity

Collabora Office Brings Power of LibreOffice to Android & iOS for editing .doc .docx .pptx, .xlsx, .dotx, .xltx, .ppsx .odt and many more documents

My new UltraSonic Cleaner - a short video about what it does

Mapping Wikipedia - An unprecedented data set shows where the encyclopaedia’s editors are, where they aren’t, and why - but no solution on how to fix that

Fujifilm X-T4 announced with in-body image stabilization and flip-out screen... It's a really retro looking camera

Heart Rate Limitations (>120bpm) Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch

LoRa mesh networking for off-grid communication using off-the-shelf ESP32 LoRa development boards

Google Earth no longer just for Chrome and Chromium browsers - comes to Firefox, Opera and Edge but not Safari (yet)

Need a free customer questions and answers support forum? Have a look at open source Discourse, Askbot, Vanilla and more

Birdtray - An application to minimize Thunderbird email program to the Linux system tray - and warn you if it is closed by accident

12 Free Encrypted & Decentralized (no central Internet server site) Messenger For iOS And Android (Nope Whatsapp is not in the list)

Brave Browser Integrates Wayback Machine to View Deleted Web Pages for '404 Not Found' errors

London’s Route 94 Gets An Upgrade With 29 New Electric Double-Decker Buses From BYD - Total of 269 BYD-ADL buses in All

Video review of the PinePhone - Right now it is certainly more about the freedom than a closed ecosystem of apps

Eskom’s biggest working power plant Kendal faces closure due to pollution - Expert opinion says approx 100 deaths in 2018 and 90 in 2019 attributed to its excess emissions

We finally have a tool to flash Tasmota (and other .bin files) with a click of a mouse to Sonoff devices

So what happens when the internet vanishes? E-Mail, connection to cloud services, search, Whatsapp - it happened about 77 times in 2019

How to unroll a Twitter thread using the ThreadReaderApp bot

Leaked EU proposal reveals plan to make smartphone batteries easier to replace - We really all need this!

Firefox turns controversial new encryption on by default in the US - DNS over HTTPS will be rolling out over the coming weeks

Electric car charging stations have been growing at an exponential rate while the number of gas stations are declining

Best Free and Open Source Slack Alternatives for Team Communication

GIMP 2.10.18 Released, Includes New 3D Transform Tool and better .PSD support

My video overview of Elgg - an open source drop-in social collaboration platform for any organisation

The European Commission is switching away its instant messaging to encrypted open source messaging app Signal - Notice a trend in governments moving away from Whatsapp?

VokoscreenNG: Open Source Screencasting Tool for Windows and Linux

Yes Minister: the political comedy that MPs have voted the greatest of all time - about to celebrate its 40th anniversary

10 top reasons to switch to Manjaro Linux - For me no 1 is NEVER needing to do an upgrade, it just keeps itself up to date year after year

What a full Linux Desktop OS looks like running on a rooted Android phone

FBI recommends passphrases over password complexity - Longer passwords, even consisting of simpler words or constructs, are better than short passwords with special characters

How to install open source Tiny Tiny RSS on a Raspberry Pi - Read your news feeds while keeping your privacy intact

Google warns Huawei users not to sideload Gmail and YouTube - but it's the source that you get the app from that counts and if Huawei does the checks it should be fine

Graphene Batteries FINALLY Hit the Market - They will charge much faster and will be safer than existing Li-Ion batteries

How to install desktop Ubuntu on your Android device - I tried it and it works really well with LibreOffice, desktop Chromium etc