September 3, 2019 Thunderbirds are gone Warning to all you Thunderbird lovers out there. Upon upgrading to the latest major release (68.0) all my email accounts were summarily trashed. Sure,…
March 31, 2019 App-aling pricing A family member recently downloaded the Drum Pad Machine Pro app from the Apple App Store with a price tag of around $11 per…
November 25, 2018 More usability options Nate is now approaching one year of usability & productivity. Awesome stuff! A couple of things I noticed recently relate to notifications. Discover, the…
September 30, 2018 Secure boot just for boot ordering It turns out you need to enable secure boot to be able to adjust the boot order of the machine. Then you can disable…
July 31, 2018 Delta Chat bridges chat and email I found this great little app on the F-Droid store that allows you to bring some sanity to chat. Delta Chat is essentially an…
May 31, 2018 Korora’s on ice I have one system with the Fedora-based Korora installed on it. This month the maintainers decided to take a break from developing the distro….
February 28, 2018 USB key usability It’s been interesting following Nathaniel Graham’s blog about usability and productivity developments in KDE. It shows how much the devs really care about user…
November 29, 2017 PM’s Gosford tax building praise misses primary concerns Now here’s a country with its priorities straight: demolish a 50-year-old primary school to build a corporate tax office we don’t need. Well, that’s…
August 31, 2017 WordPress image syncing Great little app for synchronising local Adobe LightRoom images with your WordPress image library: https://meowapps.com/wplr-sync/ Now, if only there was one for the general…
July 31, 2017 The value of certification I’m doing some work on communicating the value of (technology) certification. Opinions vary on the value of certification and in many disciplines there is…