September 3, 2019
by Rodney Gedda
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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, it’s recommended that you backup your profile before upgrading, but when it’s part of routine package … Continue reading
March 31, 2019
by Rodney Gedda
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A family member recently downloaded the Drum Pad Machine Pro app from the Apple App Store with a price tag of around $11 per week. That wouldn’t be so bad if the yearly subscription cost wasn’t about 90% cheaper at … Continue reading
November 25, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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Nate is now approaching one year of usability & productivity. Awesome stuff! A couple of things I noticed recently relate to notifications. Discover, the KDE front-end to Flatpak, among other things, does not have a notification icon and the naming … Continue reading
September 30, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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It turns out you need to enable secure boot to be able to adjust the boot order of the machine. Then you can disable secure boot and the revised boot order will stand. Other than that, ensure your /boot partition … Continue reading
July 31, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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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 email client that form-factors the text to be a chat message. People can chat as they … Continue reading
May 31, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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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. This leaves me in a bit of a pickle as I need to reinstall something else. … Continue reading
February 28, 2018
by Rodney Gedda
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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 experience, and how quickly things can be changed! Here’s one for you Nate: what should Plasma … Continue reading
November 29, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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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 what I couldn’t help thinking when I heard radio reports today about Prime Minister Turnbull’s visit … Continue reading
August 31, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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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 file system (any directory), not just one app :). Come to think of it, how about … Continue reading
July 31, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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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 little in the way of coursework or recognised competency levels. Someone can be certified and be … Continue reading