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
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
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
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
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
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
April 30, 2015
by Rodney Gedda
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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 I have a BIG problem with a BIG snapshot file that seems to keep growing to … Continue reading
October 31, 2014
by Rodney Gedda
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Having read the Anarchist FAQ a number of years ago I found the brief mention of the open source movement quite interesting, no doubt owing to my personal interest in open source software. I won’t summarise the FAQ here (that’s … Continue reading
July 30, 2014
by Rodney Gedda
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I’ve been an Android user for many years, but only recently dabbled with a few alternative app stores to Google Play. I now have Amazon’s app store and the F-Droid open source app store running on my Android device. Even … Continue reading