GadgeteerZA's Blog

The Rise, Fall and Revival of AMD microprocessors

Nedbank allows merchants and business owners to convert their mobile phones into contactless payment acceptance devices

Warden is an open source app from the developer of Aurora Store that lets you disable trackers/loggers on Rooted Android phones

My Video Overview of MudRunner Off-Road Vehicle Simulator

Satellite Internet will take on Fibre and LTE in South Africa - Ka-band is higher performance and speed than older technology

Staring at deep red light could improve declining eyesight in over-40s – Do NOT try this at home yey without medical advice

7 Electric Bus & Truck News Stories which show adoption in these sectors for Environmentally Friendly Transport

Ford is searching for South Africa's fastest Sim Racers for a competition set in Gran Turismo Sport

How and why to use a Pre-Shave with traditional shaving

An embattled group of leakers picks up the WikiLeaks mantle

The Razer Kishi controller can be easily modded to fit larger Android phones or phones in cases

The iReader C6 Color E-Reader is now available - The innovation as usual not coming from the 'biggest' e-reader company - Just not cheap at $329

The Folding@home software runs while you do other things - it will be working to help find cures for diseases like cancer, ALS, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Influenza and many others

9 Best music server software options: Build your own Spotify or Google Music

Africa has a lot of its own social networks- It's a pity that the Facebooks of the world swamp these niche networks

Tabletop Simulator is 50% off right now at Steam Games - multiplayer board games with friends anywhere in the world

Live out your locomotive dreams with this railroad simulator sale at 85% off

An Introduction to JS8CALL digital radio mode - groups, stored messages, and automated functions

Apple to finally allow e-mail and browser default apps to be changed on iOS, and widgets on the home screen

My video overview of BeamNG.drive - A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator running on Linux

Kullo Secure Communication Is Closing Down in Oct 2020 - But Open Sourcing Their Code

Jitsi Meet: A Free & Open Source Video Conferencing Solution That is Also Free to Use Without Any Set Up

My daughter upgraded to a Huawei P40 Lite and is very happy - But these are some lessons learnt

A NVIDIA Engineer In His Spare Time Wrote A Vulkan Driver That Works On Older Raspberry Pi - Can Even Play vkQuake3

Safety Razor Shaving Is Fairly Quick And Uncomplicated vs Straight Razor Shaving

In a streaming wars world, JustWatch has become an essential tool - The best way to find where to watch your favorite shows in 2020

Twitch’s streaming boom has shaken the music industry - Twitch is one of the best things to ever happen for artists, particularly for independent artists

Amazon announces 3,000 new work-from-home jobs in South Africa – here’s what you need to apply

Zoom will offer end-to-end encryption to free users, with a catch - Zoom decided that the FBI might not need access to free users' video calls after all

How Google's New 'One Tap' Android Sign-Ins Work... Or should you use a good independent password manager instead?

SpaceX Is Now Taking Requests for Starlink Beta Testers - Here's where you can sign up

Here is the full list of zero-rated websites in South Africa - Should be in place for all countries for education and basic services like safety, social, etc

The Renault K-ZE Could Be An ICE Killer if manufactured in South Africa and sold for US$10,000!

How to use Linux Bash history commands - If Bash is tedious its because you have not learnt an extra command or two

5 cool Telegram messenger gestures and shortcuts you should be using

A beginner's guide to Tasker: How to automate (almost) anything on your Android phone

My Video Overview of the YouMe Social network

Nextcloud Talk 9 video conferencing brings grid view, file editing, lobby room, open sources Talk back-end - YOU can manage your own VC end-to-end encryption

How to Install Odoo 13 (OpenERP) on Ubuntu 20.04 - A great way to test a comprehensive ERP solution

Google Stadia adds mobile touch controls, per-device resolution settings, and now works on any Android device

CoreCtrl - Meet The Software That Does For Linux Gaming What AMD Won’t

This Stunning Chart From EU Transport and Environment Shows Why Battery Electric Vehicles Win

Anonymous Camera is a new app that uses AI to quickly anonymize photos and videos - But it’s far from a silver bullet for privacy

Linux Users: Can't get Windows VST plugins to work with OBS Studio on Linux? This is my Workaround!

My fastest laptime of 1 min 48.288 seconds in ACC around Kyalami Racetrack in a Ferrari 488 GT3

ckb-next is an open-source driver for Corsair RGB keyboards and mice for Linux and MacOS

e-Car Namibia Looks To Scale EV Conversions In Namibia

Build your own USB cryptographic token for GNU Privacy Guard (similar to a YubiKey or Nitrokey)

Sansar To Host Major Virtual World Music Festival Featuring Carl Cox, Fatboy Slim, Jamie Jones (Gas Tower) and Coldcut, A.Skillz, Krafty Kutz, Henge and Alabama 3 (Freedom)