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Apple admits to secretly giving governments push notification data: Push...
Push notifications are used to provide a wide variety of alerts to app users. A friendly ding or text alert on the home screen notifies users about new text messages, emails, social media comments,...
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Does Your Next Monitor Need a KVM Switch?
I never thought about this before, really for a monitor. I’ve heard about them being used as standalone switches, and still think that may be more flexible. However, if you have one ultra-wide...
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Calibre eBook App Now Supports Audio ePubs and Custom Notes
If Calibre, the popular open-source ebook manager, was a book itself it’d surely be a perennial bestseller, thanks to an exhaustive, multi-faceted feature set. And in the latest Calibre 7 release, the...
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New systemd update will bring Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death to Linux...
Windows’ infamous “Blue Screen of Death” is a bit of a punchline. People have made a hobby of spotting them out in the wild, and in some circles, they remain a byword for the supposed flakiness and...
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These 3 services can help you transfer playlists between music streaming...
Music streaming services are not standardised like RSS readers, which have OPML files for easily exporting and importing feeds between different readers (I wonder why not). So, this makes it difficult...
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An old Bluetooth vulnerability shows why it is vital that all OS’s get...
Bluetooth vulnerability exposes Android, Linux, MacOS, and iOS devices. Hackers can access your device without special hardware and run commands without your consent. Security fix for Android 11...
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What Is an Immutable Linux Distro, and Should You Use One? Think of it as...
An immutable Linux distribution is an operating system (OS) that is read-only at its core. That means you can’t easily modify the OS. This includes the file system, directories, applications, and even...
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Jami: A Versatile Cross-platform Open-Source Peer-to-Peer Decentralized...
I can’t believe I last did a proper post about Jami as far back as 2019 last. I mention it a lot, and it was included run a debate today on my Friendica site, but I realised it does deserve a proper...
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Why I was on the point of buying a trackball mouse but did not
Firstly, I would not have had to pay for the mouse, so money was not the deciding factor (my medical insurance gives me rewards for exercising along with a 20% discount which would have covered the...
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The Withings Scanwatch Light is a smartwatch for those who don’t want one:...
I see Withings has a few of these hybrid watches. Another quite popular one is their more rugged looking diving watch with 10 ATM water resistance (Withings Scanwatch Horizon, looking more similar to...
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Open source Piwigo photo hosting updates to v14 with some nice improvements...
Search engine in the gallery gets an in-depth redesign. Piwigo 14 also comes with highly expected support for new image file types like HEIC (the default file type used for photos on iOS and Android...
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9 best iPhone Journal app alternatives for Android: Do you want to use them...
Yes, Android certainly has some excellent journalling apps too. But before jumping in and using them, you may want to consider why you are doing a journal… Quite often, the content created stays...
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Proper Extensions Are Finally Landing on Firefox for Android
One of the most-awaited additions to Firefox on Android is extension support. Not only will it help the browser stand out even further from the sea of simple, Chromium-based browsers available on...
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How to Use ViVeTool to Enable Experimental Windows Features
The Feature Store is a system component that manages Windows features. These features can be anything from updating the navigation pane to adding a new Task Manager to introducing tabs in File...
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29 Years ago Netscape Navigator 1.0 started the web we know today
Netscape Navigator was the world’s first web browser developed for commercial purposes, and it dominated the market until Internet Explorer came out (with Explorer being bundled with Windows)....
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Find your ideal E Ink tablet with this comprehensive round-up for 2023
In an era where glowing screens dominate our everyday lives, E Ink tablets offer something a little different, fostering focus and a return to a more traditional reading and writing experience. They...
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11 Fish Shell Features That Make it More Awesome Than Bash
Bash is not the only command line shell out there. There are many other shells available with slightly different feature sets. A few examples are Zsh, Fish, Ksh are Xonsh. You can have more than one...
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Steve Gibson’s explanation of the quantum computing breakthrough
I’ve not really bothered to follow the quantum computing hype until it was going to become any sort of reality in our future. The issue has been mostly around its instability and required error...
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US FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition in stores for 5 years –...
It’s one thing just having CCTV cameras, but another thing when your face, regularity of visits, etc become part of a massive database. Too often we’ve seen such databases also been sold for profit....
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PostmarketOS Linux: Breathing New Life into Smartphones
A distinguishing feature of PostmarketOS is its commitment to a unified environment. Device-specific components are neatly packaged, allowing for identical builds across diverse devices. The release...
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