In which I talk about using Linux Mint and the tweaks I have made for a more joyful computing experience.

This is probably my weirdest tutorial yet. Indeed, a guide on how to work around an obscure issue of selective DPI scale factor reset for Dolphin and certain other apps following reboot in the Plasma…

I've been recently speaking with Oukitel about their vital apps configuration while testing their devices for Android Enterprise. I raised the issue during earlier testing and it was passed to…

Blocking Identity Resolution Infrastructure | WebKit: In our iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS 27 releases, Safari and WebKit block network access to identity resolution infrastructure to prevent…

Starting from July 6, 2027, Revit 2022 and older can no longer create or open Revit Cloud Models, including Revit Cloud Worksharing.

For several days, I was struggling with a strange issue on my Mac mini M2 Pro: soon after restart, like 5mins or so, entire system would becomes super slow. UI would visibly render bit by bit,…

Watch any address on Bitcoin, Ethereum, Base, Polygon or Solana, or a price, and get an email, a push or a phone call when it moves.

“The Rise and Fall of MSN Messenger” chronicles the journey of Microsoft’s iconic chat application from its launch in 1999 to its eventual demise. The video explores how Microsoft…

Dave Herring is one of my favourite photographers and I’ve been part of his community for a little while now. Over the summer I helped to test out a new...

BT.1886 Color Space Conflation The Standard: ITU-R BT.1886 defines only a reference Electro-Optical Transfer Function (EOTF). No white point. No color primaries. The Claim: Despite this, Charles…

Handy Windows utility for keeping things up to date | UniGetUI by Devolutions | Windows package manager GUI https://devolutions.net/unigetui/ 'One GUI for WinGet, Scoop, Snap, Chocolatey, Pip, Npm,…

The image above is a very accurate preview of the upcoming all-new Porsche 718 Boxster EV. A few journalists have already been invited to drive the car in Europe. The last generation Boxster/Cayman…

There are really only three contenders for the most popular spreadsheet software: VisiCalc, the first computer spreadsheet and a system-seller for some home computers in the late 1970s, Lotus 1-2-3…

At some point, I’m sure that most of you have seen one of those cute little sidewalk robots roaming around your city, probably on their way to deliver someone’s smash burger and fries.…

The hardware and software I currently use

Apps I’ve been using regularly this year. This is my second year doing this. Here is last year’s list. Inspired by Jeff Triplett and catalogued by Robb Knight’s App Defaults. What…

Markdown Mate is a simple, quick editor that gets most things right Markdown Mate is a free markdown editor available on the App Store. It is simple, quick, but does not do wiki links, so you won’t…

The current Honda HR-V came out back in April 2022. It has received a few small improvements since, like a larger screen, wireless CarPlay on all versions, new wheels, etc… Nothing much. The…

A feature I sometimes forget is present in NetNewsWire is that you can change its theme. That is mostly because I set it years ago and forgot all about it. Dave Marquard recently created a theme…

I’m good at putting things into Todoist, but I’m awful at actually looking at Todoist. Sure, it’s right there in my Dock, and sure, there’s notifications via my phone and in…

Social media feeds will eat up every last morsel of our time until we view them for what they really are.

Tesla shows off a Roadster that can lift itself into the air, and somewhere an aspiring entrepreneur thinks “I need to invent something even more spectacular to be successful”. I admire the ambition…

I’ve long be Linux curious, and my wish finally came true over the weekend when my son installed Fedora and GNOME on an old ThinkPad for me. As I understand it, Fedora is the name of one of the Linux…

Given that I typically take a wait-and-see attitude when Apple introduces a new product, I was surprised to find myself ordering a HomeView within a day of its announcement. I was even more surprised…

Foursquare has come to an end at the hands of private equity. It was a fun service that led to really great real-world experiences - but what happens to those check-ins now?

The U.S. consolidated press once again demonstrates its dedication to lazy "CEO said a thing!" pseudo-journalism.

I already mentioned the Calibre application in a previous post but this time I set it up properly in order to to store and manage all the books that I bought on Humble Bundle and the Kobo store . To…

Not only are the new Kindles substantially more expensive than the previous generation models, Amazon is also no longer including USB cables in the box with the purchase of new Kindles. Now if you…

Ferdinand Piëch’s Bugatti Volkswagen gave up on selling the Phaeton in North America after the 2006 model year, with around 3,500 found homes in three years. Analysts at Bernstein Research…

I was director of deliverability for ExactTarget, later called Salesforce Marketing Cloud, for fifteen years. I still help a number of companies and consultants with issues related to…

The best software for editing a thesis, dissertation, or research manuscript yourself, compared on Word and Overleaf support, reviewable edits, long documents, academic checks, and price: Paperpal,…

I updated my MacBook Air to Golden Gate 27.0.1 last night. And this morning I downloaded and installed RemoveMacAI , a free app to remove Apple Intelligence. (Apple itself, to its discredit, offers…

Here are my thoughts on Apple HomeView. It’s interesting to see Apple kinda sorta enter the smart-home category; will watch what else happens over the years. The price seems okay...

The Samsung Odyssey G7 is an excellent monitor, but its out-of-the-box settings are aggressive. Its settings can be adjusted for comfortable reading, coding, and reducing eye fatigue. Here are the…

A quick visual to make sense of the three buckets of credits.

Home Assistant supports Matter natively, it allows you to connect and control your Matter devices locally, without a cloud account, right next to everything else in your smart home. And because…

Just received a message from the maintainer of the QtDMM digital multimeter software project to announce that the QtDMM2 v 26.2 has just been released. It’s packed with quite a lot of…

Track Everything You Own With HomeCenter When was the last time you changed your furnace filter? When does the warranty on your fridge run out? If answering either one means digging through a junk…

Streaks, Streaks Workout and Hexiled all now support iPhone Duo. Here's what changed in each app, from moving controls into the new vertical bar to a seated mode that splits the screen across the…

Raspberry Pi Desktop now available for PC and Mac Raspberry Pi Desktop is all updated for Debian Trixie and available now for your PCs and Macs. It even includes a Raspberry Pi Connect client. [ 📌…

In this month's blog status update, I note I've shuttered my Instagram page; also, I look at Instagram alternatives. Source

A small home battery can reduce your electricity bill, even without solar panels. But saving money each day and recovering the purchase price are two different questions. Before buying extra storage,…

A 1999 Lupo and a 2026 Tesla speak the same language. Why CAN bus refuses to die, and how I built CAN-Lab to learn it…

just me gushing over an ai-free, ad-free streaming platform that i think you should take a look at! plus now i have comments available on all of my diary entries if you'd like to have a chat <3

We have looked at several approaches to improving millimetre-wave (mmWave) connectivity on this blog, including transparent antennas, metasurfaces and, more recently, KDDI and JR East's demonstration…

Protractor° is on the App Store. A simple app, one that I didn’t type a single line of code or write the mundane metadata on App Store Connect. What I didn’t mention: when I got the dreaded rejection…

AI is making PLM software easier to build, customize, and compete with. Yet manufacturers still need reliable product records, engineering... The post PLM Moats in 2026: 8 Ways to Defend PLM Software…

I’ve been having an issue with iOS 27 on my iPhone Air since release - random overheating. I can be just surfing in Safari and the phone gets so hot...

A new version (1.6) of Hypervals is now out for Mac, iOS and Apple watch.

Today, for the first time, I used Apple’s “Describe an Extension” feature in Safari to have Apple Intelligence make a little useful extension for me and I was impressed. I hate clicking a link and…