Google Maps turns 20, adds AI features, new countries to beat Apple: Next month sees Google Maps' 20th year anniversary; it is kind of hard to imagine life without this type of software.
Useful software
2025-01-19
2024-12-29: Just learned that you can now turn off Microsoft Excel’s previously incessant desire to …
2024-12-28: Edit csv is a very handy tool if you need to make some basic edits to a CSV file on a computer …
2024-12-25
AdGuard Mail — a new AdGuard product to protect your email: AdGuard enters into the cadre of services like SimpleLogin and Addy by offering a product designed to keep your email private.
2024-12-14: GoFullPage is a useful Chrome browser extension that lets you take a screenshot of all of a webpage …
2024-12-06: A friend kindly informs me that if you’re a customer of O2, a common mobile phone carrier in …
2024-11-10: RSS as a method of subscribing to your favourite online content is not dead, and thanks to its open …
2024-10-22: Currently trying out a combo of FreshRSS and NetNewsWire to experience the joy (?) of aggregating, …
2024-10-22
Why you should ditch social media for a (micro)blog: Yes, I’m a big fan of both the general concept and the specific product Aaron mentions.
2024-10-16
You should be using an RSS reader: RSS is great (& Cory Doctorow uses Newsblur for it).
2024-10-10
The Essential Tools for Exploratory Analysis: The types of tools one might want at hand when engaging in exploratory data analysis.
2024-10-06
Aesthetic Command Lines with Hyper, Spaceship, and Oh My Zsh: Never really thought about customising my command line much before but now I’m probably going to waste half of tomorrow doing so.
2024-10-02: When it comes to listening to podcasts I’m a big Pocket Casts user. Whilst it has a …
2024-09-28
Moving to Pika: In which a post about changing blog hosts turns out to be full of commentary on coping with the exhausting conditions of modern existence.
2024-09-18: 10015 is a useful website containing a ton of quick little web tools that handle a set of fairly …
2024-09-11: Save videos, photos and audio from your favourite sites with Cobalt
2024-09-08: UniGetUI is a handy GUI for Winget and other Windows package managers
2024-07-25: Rainbow CSV is an extension for VSCode that makes working with CSV fields in that editor a lot more …
2024-07-23: JAM Software’s TreeSize app is a handy Windows utility to quickly visualise which of your …
2024-06-26: free-for.dev is a great list of free-tier cloud service tools for developers
2024-04-27: Remove DRM from Amazon Kindle books with Calibre
2023-09-06: MusicBrainz Picard fixes your musical MP3 tagging woes
2023-07-11: The 'Redact' app lets you delete all those social media posts that you regret writing
2023-06-04: Rclone looks to be a super useful utility for anyone who works a lot with cloud storage providers. …
2022-12-10: The iOS Kindle app has finally made it easy to send an article from your iDevice to your hardware …