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South Africa’s load-shedding gives wireless ISPs (Wisps) an edge over cellular networks due to much lower power consumption requirements

What Is Dynamic DNS (DDNS), and How Do You Set It Up? It’s Useful for Self-Hosting from Home or for Remote Access

Top racing game Forza Motorsport to feature South Africa’s Kyalami racetrack

ADS-B Exchange sells up to a commercial company, contributors are unhappy as it is their freely contributed crowdsourced data

15 awesome Samsung Internet tips and tricks: Samsung’s mobile internet browser is full of nifty add-ons

More than 50% of FNB customers in South Africa now tap to pay at the point of sale, marking an extraordinary rise in contactless payments

Flatpak vs Snap, know the differences and gain insights as a Linux user to pick the best

Explore the World of Custom iPhone Widgets: A Widgy widget goes a long way in making your iPhone feel special

KeyDecoder is an open source Android app that can generate all the necessary bitting info to duplicate a key from just an image

River Valley Trading is an online South African Traditional Wet Shaving Supplier

Microsoft is checking everyone’s bags for unsupported Office installs: Please, sir. I don’t want a 365 subscription

AirTag Helps Rescuers Find Dog Lost in California Flood – Like Most Things, AirTags can be Used for Many Good Purposes

Docfetcher is a cross-platform free and open source desktop search application

Apple’s iOS 16.3 update brings Advanced Data Protection functionality to iCloud for South African users

Why I moved from an Apple Watch to a Samsung Galaxy Watch 5

Scammers are selling microSD cards online with only gigabytes of capacity as portable SSDs with several terabytes of storage

Google Translate rolls out offline translation support for 33 new languages, including South Africa’s Sesotho, Xhosa, and Zulu

How to install Windows 11 on almost any unsupported PC

How to use your phone to find hidden cameras

Retro Pod, which turns your iPhone into an iPod, amassed hundreds of thousands of downloads before it was removed from the App Store

Do you know where your data is? Chad Engelgau does. He’s the CEO of Acxiom, a data broker. Your info is probably on one of his servers

Load Shedding integration on Home Assistant with EskomSePush API

Google’s upcoming eSIM tweaks put users in control, not carriers: Android could soon let you convert physical SIM cards and import eSIM profiles

Zurich-based ETH research university: Threema billed as better than Signal was riddled with 7 different vulnerabilities

Apple Faces Second Class-Action Suit Over Privacy Settings After Tests showed Apple collects data even when its own settings promise not to

Raspberry Pi upgrades its Camera Module with HDR, autofocus, a new lens-mounting attachment, and more

Low-cost 433 MHz door/window reed sensors get open source firmware

Advanced Copy Command – Shows Progress Bar While Copying/Moving Files in Linux

How, for heart health, new Huawei Watch D beats Apple Watch and Samsung Galaxy Watch: No calibration required for Blood Pressure

The art of cut-throat shaving: Because real men shave with a naked blade

PhotoPills is a $10.99 app that will help predict when the Sun, Moon, and other Celestial Objects will be in a Specific Position for Photography

Valencell announces a fully cuffless blood pressure monitor connects to your Android phone, and does not require calibration with a cuff

You Could Be Selecting Text With Your Mouse Incorrectly

Video demonstrating how and why those red and green LEDs measure heart rate and SpO2, and why they need to flash

Adonit’s $45 Neo Pro Stylus Magnetically Charges Off the iPad, Just Like Apple’s $129 Pencil