Browse and organize your physical media collection on this website. The standout feature is the display: a three-dimensional shelf. “Take down” (click on) a movie and examine the box from every angle. For free.

I’ve published more than a couple of pieces on this blog trying to raise awareness about the risks of viral photo-editing apps, like FaceApp back in 2019 [pt_BR]. We are curious beings. The promise of looking into a magic mirror that shows us old, as a different gender, or in another era is nearly irresistible — a...

This site allows you to draw the life of a random person among all 100 billion who have ever lived on this planet, based on statistics and historical fragments of each period. I thought it was cool to analyze the lives of people who lived centuries or millennia ago and then trace my own profile.

At the end of August, I had the chance to fiddle with a Galaxy Z Fold8, Samsung’s passport-style foldable phone. It’s smaller than I expected. I found it somewhat curious. My time with the device was brief and I think I saw enough. It’s not for me. This Wednesday (9th), Apple made its debut in the foldable phone...

Stéphane Pigeon, a signal processing engineer and passionate about sounds, keeps this site alone. He runs the world to record various noises with the highest possible quality. Why? The short answer, according to himself, is because he is crazy.

After several beta and RC versions, Jellyfin 12 was released this Monday (7th). This is the server application, which other devices access to display stored videos, music, and other digital media. It also comes with a client accessible via the web. The versioning scheme has changed, and this new release comes with a...

From the most boring television game shows to your computer or phone, in the game Wire Loop you have to take the disc from one point to another without touching the wire, as fast as you can. Includes a level editor.

The Asahi Project, whose mission is to make Linux distributions viable on post-2020 Apple computers, announced on Sunday 6th support for the Apple Silicon M3 chip family. There are still important limitations, such as the lack of 3D acceleration and the inability to put the system to sleep, but it works. Because of...

LibreOffice 26.8, released on August 26th, became the software’s most popular update. LibreOffice is a free alternative to Microsoft Office that’s been around for nearly two decades. In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories....

I avoid giving stage time to weird people (in the bad sense) here at the Manual. I’m making an exception to link to a July post by DHH, the Danish co-founder of 37Signals (the company behind Basecamp), creator of Omarchy, and author of a blog full of wrong ideas about immigrants and non-white people. He became the...

A website full of services to be accessed by Kindle and other tablets with E-Ink screen. Just open the site to notice why. There are even games! (Some services are behind a paying subscription.)

Editor's Note In this series, readers showcase what they carry in their backpacks on a daily basis. Check out the other backpacks that have been published and submit yours — the this series depends on you. *** Hey everyone! I’m Isabella (@yawlle/Instagram), a mobile Android developer at a bank working fully remote,...