Category: Technology

Выбираем фитнес-браслет: Huawei vs. Xiaomi

Недавно мой телефон превратился в лопату, и доставать его, чтобы тупо посмотреть время или проверить, а не у меня ли это там пять минут назад что-то пиликнуло, совсем не хочется. Привыкать тяжело. Я и раньше то не был…

By Alex Semёnov

Two Important Links

Decided to post two important links that my help writers, bloggers, and anyone else with a desire to bring his or her life back on track. Dr. Cal Newport is an old favourite and Lifehack is something that I…

By Lopamudra Kalipada Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay

The trouble with Chromium translations

Most applications that are intended for a broad international audience have their UI translated to various languages, the number of which can vary widely, depending on the resources of the vendor, especially their…

By Yngve

Reclaiming Back Our Lives

Since I have quit Facebook, I am seriously away from all the information overflow. I refer to newspapers for my daily news (since we do not own a TV....my husband and I being seriously bored by that contraption), and…

By Lopamudra Kalipada Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay

The Disappearing Email

Before I quit Facebook, I emailed a few important contacts of mine (they included both relatives and friends). I assumed like the good old times that they would check their emails and reply back in due course. However,…

By Lopamudra Kalipada Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay

Microsoft, you broke Visual Studio!

One of the most important tools when developing software is a good development environment, called an IDE (Integrated Development Environment), with at least an editor, build functionality, debugger, and being able to…

By Yngve

technical issues with 0.4-m f/3.8 setup

I noticed that the images are very bad, taken with the 0.4-m f/3.8 setup. Problem was that the all stars appears as comets. Very strange. I could not at first immediately pinpoint the cause, after all, nothing had been…

By astrobry

September Digital Detox

A fellow blogger kindly referred this wonderful website to help me de-clutter my electronic gadgets and life. I've watched Dr, Cal Newport's videos before, but this time I find his website extremely helpful. Sharing the…

By Lopamudra Kalipada Bandyopadhyay-Chattopadhyay

Anker Multi-plug Outlet

So much for my talking about taking only small items. This outlet is not small, but it is very lightweight. …

By robrose

USB Hub for Traveling

In a week we be leaving to spend a little over three months in Europe and North Africa. We each only take a day pack and a carryon when we go overseas, so any items we take must be small in size and low in weight, This…

By robrose

Weather Radio Antenna

Reading about the Midland WR120 I discovered that there is a simple antenna one can make that would help bring in weak signals. There are only five inexpensive parts to it.…

By robrose

PGP key [[email protected]]

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Comment: User-ID: crljones Comment: Created: 2022-08-16 3:19 P.M. Comment: Type: 4,096-bit RSA Comment: Usage: Signing, Encryption, Certifying User-IDs Comment:…

By crljones