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How to sync health data between apps on Android, using Health Connect

Turn a Webpage into a Desktop App with Gluon: It has the Advantages of Electron, but loses main disadvantages

‘Radio Garden’ Lets You Explore the World’s Radio Stations via website or mobile apps

All Android phones let you take a single scrolling screenshot instead of taking multiple shots: Here’s how to do it

Building the world’s most popular gaming PC costs R35,950 in South Africa, and how it compares to other countries compared to average salaries

Barossa Valley Vineyard In South Australia Showcases The Beauty Of Vehicle-To-Grid

Fairphone 4 can now run Android 13 with microG courtesy of unofficial LineageOS 20 ROM

How to download Android apps without the Google Play Store: Who needs Google Play when you have APK Mirror?

5 Best Linux Phones to Watch Out for in 2023

How to use Do Not Disturb mode on Android: There’s more to it than you might think, and it may be worth trying out

People Who Like To Be Alone Have These 12 Special Personality Traits

Qwantify: Self-Hosted and Open Source Project for Gaming Online with Friends

Convert and Manipulate Images With ‘Converter’ GUI Tool in Linux, instead of ImageMagick in the Terminal

The Straight Dope Message Board is still around, fighting ignorance since 1973 because it’s taking longer than they though

What Is A Safety Razor and How To Use It to Shave your Face – It is Easier than you Think, and is called ‘Safety’ for Good Reason

Oliver Heaviside changed the face of telecommunications, mathematics, and science in the early 1900s, yet few have ever heard of him

Find My Device: Finally you will be able to find your Android phone without Internet, like Apple and Samsung have had

Experience the power of the Linux Krusader file manager – Hint, it’s more than just a file manager

Universal Android Debloater GUI – an open source low-level app for debloating Android phones

Chumby gets a new kernel… soon

Make your noisy recording sound like pro audio with Adobe’s free Enhance Speech AI tool – Up to one hour long or 1 GB in size

Mouse whisperer – a physical USB dongle that fakes your presence at your computer, but ‘should you’ just because you can?

How to measure your body composition on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 and Watch 5 series

XDA Developers have tested almost every smartphone that hit the market in 2022, and these are our picks for the best of the year

Google introduces a beta version end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web (body and attachments), but not yet for personal accounts

Some of Google’s biggest rivals are coming together with the hopes of creating new open source services to knock Google Maps from its mapping throne

Samsung strips out the Settings shortcut widget, but you can achieve the same shortcut results with the QuickShortcutMaker app

Lessons learnt building and maintaining South African Government National Treasury’s open source open budget data viz portal

A completely free Unreal Tournament 3 just leaked on Steam

VHS-Decode (It does more than VHS now!) could help Archival efforts

Apple is reportedly preparing to allow third-party app stores on the iPhone in the EU: It will be a ground shifting change for Apple (or not)

The ‘Military Metaverse’ Calls It Quits: Highlights the risk yet again of any cloud subscription technology shutting down

STARFIELD 47 – an interactive Star Trek themed viewscreen that runs in a browser or as a screensaver

Battery Monitor Comparison: Shunt vs Hall Sensor

My First ‘Computer’ Program Written On A HP41CV Programmable Calculator

RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stable BUT with a huge list of caveats which you need to be aware of