BlogFlock

★★★★☆

An extremely powerful image editor for Android. And not just the usual features like crop, adjust contrast or brightness, maybe apply a filter, but you can do batch edits, format conversion, scaling the actual pixel image, editing metadata…all the things that mobile apps tend to hide behind the curtain…

★★★☆☆

Simple, friendly image editor that doesn’t need any extra permissions, it just lets you adjust your photos! It’s not elaborate, just basic adjustments like cropping, changing contrast or saturation, sharpening or noise reduction. Feels more suited for mobile, but has a Linux version as well as Android. There are…

★★★★☆

Scrambled EXIF is one of those “does one thing really well” apps: It’s a filter that removes all the date, time, location, camera, and other metadata from a photo as you share it. Using it is incredibly simple: Share the photo to Scrambled Exif, and then it’ll ask you…

Robert J. Sawyer

★★★★☆

It’s been a while, but Calculating God sticks in my head as an interesting…

OK, this has got to be the most ridiculous Linux bug I’ve encountered in a long time.

Installing XFCE/X11 on my Fedora system made it impossible to log into GNOME/Wayland. I finally tracked down what was causing it through an Arch forum thread pointing to a Debian bug report.

★★★★☆

Moshidon is a modified version of the Mastodon app for Android phones that adds a bit more functionality. Some that was just left out of the official app, like the local and federated timelines. Some that vanilla Mastodon doesn’t support, like writing formatted posts or local-only posts. And…

★★★☆☆

I won’t say I’ve never liked Outlook, because the macOS version has been pretty decent for a while, and the Android version is at least okay.

But the Windows version has been a series of train wrecks since Microsoft grafted email capabilities onto its Schedule+ calendar software back…

I can go with your scifi/fantasy story’s super-impossible thing being associated with an eclipse. It’s activating or deactivating people’s super-powers? Sure! Certain magic spells can only be cast during an eclipse? Sure! The moon transforms into cheese? OK, whatever. (pun not intended)

But please, please get the basic mechanics…

John Scalzi

★★★★☆

A fast, enjoyable read with a few gut punches hidden throughout. I picked it as a sort of palate cleanser to the darkness of Overgrowth, though it turns out both involve strange transformations and potential planet-wide disasters.

It’s not really about the moon turning into cheese…

★★★★★

I was very quickly impressed by how easy it was to switch from Google Authenticator, and how even if I wasn’t trying to cut down on my dependence on Google, it’s still better.

You can organize accounts into groups. That alone would make it worth switching, and now…