Turn paper hiking maps into real-time GPS guides with Matchy Maps

“Trails may not be visible on the digital map, but things like roads, rivers, ponds, lakes, and other natural features are. The app allows you to take a photo of a physical map in the real world—whether it’s a paper brochure or a trailhead sign—and ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/turn-paper-hiking-maps-into-real-time-gps-guides-with-matchy-maps/

#hiking #maps #navigation #technology

Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom

So why did Sweden pivot? In an email to Undark, Linda Fälth, a researcher in teacher education at Linnaeus University, wrote that the “decision to reinvest in physical textbooks and reduce the emphasis on digital devices” was prompted by several fac ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/sweden-goes-back-to-basics-swapping-screens-for-books-in-the-classroom/

#education #technology

Proton launches new “Meet” privacy-focused conferencing platform

“Meet provides end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) calls to protect the confidentiality of the conversations and does not require a paid plan or even a Proton account to use. It is free for one-hour meetings of up to 50 participants. Proton says Meet was cr ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/proton-launches-new-meet-privacy-focused-conferencing-platform/

#privacy #technology #videoconferencing

Dangerzone — an open source app to safely open suspect PDFs, office docs, or images

Dangerzone works like this: You give it a document that you don’t know if you can trust (for example, an email attachment). Inside a sandbox, Dangerzone converts the document to a PDF (if it isn’t already one), and then converts the PDF into raw pix ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/dangerzone-an-open-source-app-to-safely-open-suspect-pdfs-office-docs-or-images/

#opensource #security #technology

Easy way South Africans can find fuel stations with the cheapest diesel

“Unlike petrol prices, retail diesel prices are unregulated in South Africa. Only the wholesale price at which suppliers may sell to stations is fixed by the government.”

I thought both diesel and petrol prices were regulated in SA so this was ne ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/easy-way-south-africans-can-find-fuel-stations-with-the-cheapest-diesel/

#diesel #southafrica #technology

ClipCascade is an open-source lightweight utility that automatically syncs the clipboard across devices

This is a nice private option to sync across all your devices in real-time, and you can self-host you own sync device, rely on peer-to-peer between devices, or use their cloud sync. Traffic is end-to-end encrypted. It can support multiple users keep ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/clipcascade-is-an-open-source-lightweight-utility-that-automatically-syncs-the-clipboard-across-devices/

#clipboard #opensource #privacy #technology

I just moved from Manjaro Linux to EndeavourOS

I’ve been on Manjaro Linux for a good ten plus years now and been pretty happy with it. Not only that, but I love the rolling distro type updates as there has been no need to ever reinstall the OS. The problem with that is a mass of tweaks as well a ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/i-just-moved-from-manjaro-linux-to-endeavouros/

#endeavouros #linux #opensource #technology

Big Win for Open Source as Germany Backs Open Document Format

“Germany has strictly standardised its digital document requirements. The Deutschland-Stack (in Deutsch), the country’s new sovereign digital infrastructure framework, names just two document formats that public administrations are allowed to use: O ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/big-win-for-open-source-as-germany-backs-open-document-format/

#ODF #opensource #openstandards #technology

Single button press to start or stop a Portainer docker stack

A Portainer stack (related group of Docker containers) can be started and stopped remotely with the literal push of a button on a Stream Deck. Or you could create a desktop icon that does the same thing. There are many ways to do this as long as a s ...continues

See https://gadgeteer.co.za/single-button-press-to-start-or-stop-a-portainer-docker-stack/

#docker #portainer #StreamDeck #technology