I started compressing phone videos because my laptop was running out of disk. That was the whole reason I cared. I did not care about codecs (the compression algorithms that decide how…
The Browser Choice Alliance fired a shot across Microsoft’s bow this week, and it is about time. A coalition of browser developers (Vivaldi, Brave, Waterfox, and several smaller forks) has filed a…
I used 7-Zip for fifteen years. The interface never changed. The compression ratios never improved. The integration with Windows never got better. Then I tried NanaZip, a free open-source archiver forked from…
Valve quietly confirmed what the DIY crowd has been saying for a year: you can build a Steam Machine from whatever PC parts you have lying around, as long as SteamOS 3.8…
I have been running a fresh Windows 11 install on a test box for about three weeks now, and the first thing that drove me up the wall was the search box.…
Google’s Android Lockdown Is Still Happening – Don’t Be Fooled by the PR Google told everyone they would back off on locking down Android. They didn’t. That was the message out of…
I Found a Windows Search Alternative That Costs /bin/sh and Works Instantly Windows Search has been the slowest part of my workstation for as long as I have run Windows on the…
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