June 18, 2025 From Skype to Signal With the unfortunate demise of Skype, it’s hard to go past the Signal messaging app. Having used both apps for years it’s a shame…
June 15, 2020 New Android email client: FairEmail I found https://email.faircode.eu/ while searching for an alternative to the stalwart K9 Mail on the F-Droid store. My first impressions are very favorable. It’s…
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…
October 29, 2018 Nasty Nouveau problem I had a problem with X.org using way too much shared memory with the Nouveau driver. The shared…
August 12, 2018 Display manager bug I noticed this display manager bug in KaOS. The default DM has the month number generated alongside the month name. Let’s see what happens.
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…
September 15, 2017 Another move for open mobile The KDE project has announced a partnership with Purism to support Plasma mobile on its upcoming handset. More details here. I’ve been coving alternative…
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…
June 30, 2017 ownCloud and Nextcloud 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…
April 30, 2017 Well done GNOME 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…
February 28, 2017 LibreOffice Word Completion bug One of the great features of LibreOffice Writer is word completion in AutoCorrect. As you use Writer every word longer than a specified size…
January 30, 2017 BuddyPress in a sea of social networks for business Late last year Facebook made splash with the announcement of Workplace. Social networks for business are nothing new of course, but when The Book…
September 25, 2016 Say hello to Wryte, an open source dictation app I found this great little open source dictation app Wryte while checking to see if Simon had progressed much recently. The project appears to…
June 30, 2016 It’s good to be back on Chakra I installed Chakra Linux on an old notebook after a few years away from it. I now have Kubuntu, Korora (Fedora) and Chakra systems…
March 31, 2016 More Markdown madness 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….
November 29, 2015 Bridging the desktop-mobile development gap 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…
October 31, 2015 AsteroidOS: An open smartwatch platform 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…
July 26, 2015 KDE announces Plasma Mobile 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…
April 30, 2015 The desktop virtualization dearth I can’t believe how few options there are for desktop virtualisation (or virtualization) on Windows. I’m using VirtualBox to host Linux on Windows but…
March 29, 2015 TablePress for easy tables in WordPress Looking to add GUI-editable tables to your WordPress site? Take a look at TablePress. It supports a number of JavaScript controls and can even…
