September 3, 2019 Thunderbirds are gone 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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
October 31, 2014 Open source as a case study in software reformism Having read the Anarchist FAQ a number of years ago I found the brief mention of the open source movement quite interesting, no doubt…
July 30, 2014 F-Droid open source app store on BlackBerry 10 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…