June 30, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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I’ve blogged about ownCloud a few times as it offers a free way to sync and share files among many other features. A while back there was a revolt from ownCloud and Nextcloud was born. I won’t go into the … Continue reading
April 30, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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By now volumes have been written about why Canonical will replace its own Unity desktop with GNOME so I won’t bother to express any further opinion on the matter. The only thing I will say is well done GNOME! I … Continue reading
February 28, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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One of the great features of LibreOffice Writer is word completion in AutoCorrect. As you use Writer every word longer than a specified size will be collated in the Word Completion list. Long words are then suggested as you type … Continue reading
January 30, 2017
by Rodney Gedda
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Late last year Facebook made splash with the announcement of Workplace. Social networks for business are nothing new of course, but when The Book puts its weight behind the concept you know something’s up. Enterprise social network software vendors have … Continue reading
September 25, 2016
by Rodney Gedda
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I found this great little open source dictation app Wryte while checking to see if Simon had progressed much recently. The project appears to be less than 12 months old and uses the following cross-platform technologies: electron clojurescript reagent https://languagetool.org … Continue reading
June 30, 2016
by Rodney Gedda
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I installed Chakra Linux on an old notebook after a few years away from it. I now have Kubuntu, Korora (Fedora) and Chakra systems on the go. Out of those it seems Kubuntu has the least direction. It seems to … Continue reading
March 31, 2016
by Rodney Gedda
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After my previous adventure of Markdown editing with Kate, I took another look around for a cross-platform editor which can provide a similar outcome. Yes, I am aware Kate runs on non-Linux platforms, but that’s the topic of another blog … Continue reading
November 29, 2015
by Rodney Gedda
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It seems Google’s Chrome browser is making waves in write-once, run on all desktops development environments. Projects like NW.js and Electron (renamed from Atom Shell earlier this year) provide an environment to use Web technologies for native apps on Windows, … Continue reading
October 31, 2015
by Rodney Gedda
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Last week I came across an interesting open source project in AsteriodOS. It’s a free and open-source smartwatch platform based on OpenEmbedded, libhybris and Qt5. I have a Samsung Tizen-based smartwatch so it’s great to see a community project in … Continue reading
July 26, 2015
by Rodney Gedda
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In another development for independent mobile environments, the KDE project has announced Plasma Mobile. Announced during Akademy, KDE’s yearly worldwide conference, the Plasma Mobile project aims to create a completely free and openly developed software stack for mobile devices like … Continue reading