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…