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.
July 31, 2018 Delta Chat bridges chat and email 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…
June 30, 2018 Vivid pic I took this great photo of a light dinosaur at Sydney’s recent Vivid festival. A lucky touch indeed. I’ve worked with photographers all my…
May 31, 2018 Korora’s on ice 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….
April 30, 2018 New Ubuntu release, old PC donated I scratched together a working desktop from old components lying around the house. With the release of Kubuntu 18.04 she’s as good as new….
March 31, 2018 USB headset usability Hot on the heels of my last post about USB key usability I have another one to share, this time about headsets. Nate Graham’s…
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…
January 31, 2018 Education sell off amid house of cards I came across this post by Matt Barrie the other day. The post is not new (Nov 2017) but it did seem timely given…
December 31, 2017 All the best for 2018 As another year comes to a close I hope you are having a good holiday season. The past few weeks have been quite hectic…
November 29, 2017 PM’s Gosford tax building praise misses primary concerns 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…
October 31, 2017 Buyer beware: Virtualization technology When is it a mistake to have a reasonable assumption about a technology? When it comes to desktop virtualization it seems you can’t be…
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…
July 31, 2017 The value of certification 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…
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…
May 29, 2017 Soup sale: When is a no-brainer a no-brainer? I came across this interesting soup sale in a CBD cafe. A small soup costs $7 and a large – which looks at least…
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…
March 31, 2017 Diving into Divi Builder I’ve been experimenting with Divi Builder of late for some visual Web design. To be honest I don’t much about the world’s WYSIWYG options…
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…