Natura’s Ice Creamery located in the town of Hahndorf is surrounded by massively over priced cafes. The pricing of this store is $5-7 for a hot dog and $7-10 for a baked potato which is pretty in line with what you would see at any other store around South Australia. Food presentation was way over what you would expect for a cafe and tasted great.

100% recommended if you are in the area, Don’t spend $20 on a sandwich in the surrounding stores.

The wacom intuos drawing tablet is fully supported out of the box on ubuntu and other distros with the xserver-xorg-input-wacom package installed. The tablet is configurable through the xsetwacom command line tool. While the cli tool is not as user friendly as the GUI tool for windows and macOS it is feature complete and can configure the tablet buttons as well as many other settings for the tablet.

Slide for reddit is an open source, modern application for Android for accessing reddit. In my opinion it is the best reddit app available and nicer than the other reddit apps available such as reddit is fun, redreader and relay.

Pros

• Modern material deign UI
• Offline viewing
• Customizable UI
• Open Source
• Rapidly improving feature set

Cons

• None that I can think of

The steelseries Apex 350 is a gaming keyboard complete with a numpad, media keys and 22 extra macro keys as well as 5 zones of customizable backlight LEDs.

On Linux all the basic keyboard functions on the steelseries Apex 350 work fine. steelseries provides a program for enabling the extra macro keys and customizing the LED colors. Unfortunately this software is only available for Windows and MacOS however thanks to tuxmark5 there is a tool for using this keyboard to its full extent.

ApexCtl is a command line tool for using the extra functions of the Apex which are not supported out of the box. While this command line tool is more complex than the GUI solution provided by steelseries, ApexCtl is still quite usable for those familiar with the command line.

Conclusion: The steelseries Apex 350 is a nice gaming keyboard which through the use of a 3rd party tool can be completely utilized on Linux.

Telegram is yet another IM service which is pretty similar to all the others currently available. Telegrams main defining features are the ability for users to make their own sticker packs, private chats and a GPL licensed client.

Pros

• A client for almost every platform
• Custom sticker packs
• Private chats with semi secure encryption
• Nice UI

Cons

• Server is closed source
• Requires a phone number to register (Possibly a pro for making blocking bad users easier)
• No clear way to get involved with the client development.
• Contributes to the problem of IM fragmentation by creating another service incompatible with the rest.

In Conclusion

Telegram is not a bad IM service but its not a great one either, I would rate it above others like WhatsApp and Skype for the fact that it has open source clients but in the end its another app that people have to download to be able to talk with all their contacts and can never truly be a standard due to the closed off nature of the telegram server software.

KeePassX is a great password manager for securely storing your passwords locally. KeePassX makes it simple to organize and generate passwords for all your services.

Pros:

• Cross platform
• Open source
• Easy to use

Cons:

• No integration with cloud services for syncing data. This can be resolved by storing your keepass file in a synced folder however
• No integration with browsers.

In Conclusion

KeePassX is my password manager of choice however the lack of browser support can be a real hassle. The peace of mind from knowing my data can only be accessed by me and is not stored on a 3rd party server makes the lack of features included in other password managers worth it.

This site provides a services which lets you have phone cases custom made with images of your choice.

When I made my order for a case for my Nexus 5X I was a little worried about if the printing would turn out well. When I revived my case about a week later the case design turned out very nice, judging by looks the case was very pretty and just how it looked on the website.

Where I was disappointed however is the actual design of the case is close to useless for actually protecting the phone. There was no fault in the manufacturing but simply the case was made to be just a skin for looks and not to actually protect your phone. If this is what you want then go ahead and order one but if you are looking to actually protect your phone I recommend looking elsewhere.

Note that this review was for the Nexus 5X case sold by case custom and many not apply to their other phone cases.

Matrix is a protocol for sending messages across the internet. Its main use is as an IM platform similar to WhatsApp and Telegram although it has other uses such as controlling IoT devices.

Pros:

• Federated/Decentralized: Matrix servers are decentralized in a similar way to email. Anyone can host their own server and talk to users across on other servers. This means there is absolutely no lock in and you are free to move to another server at any time without losing any of your contacts.

• Fully open source: The Matrix protocol and reference server and client software are licensed under libre licenses which ensures your freedom to use the software however you like

• Intercommunication with other protocols: matrix.org hosts bridges to other messaging services such as IRC, Gitter and Slack. This means you can talk to users who do not use Matrix, expanding the number of people you can talk to using Matrix.

• Great mobile support: There is a wonderful app for Matrix on Android and iOS called Riot

• Active development: There is a very active team of full time developers working on Matrix which listen to community feedback and are constantly adding more features.

Cons

• No feature complete native desktop clients: The reference client for matrix Riot is only available as a web app for desktop. While there are desktop clients under development which can be found on the matrix website; these clients are still lacking many of the features which riot supports.

• Still lacking some features from other IM platforms: Matrix clients while being completely usable for daily use are still lacking some desirable features however these features are quickly being added in.

In conclusion

Matrix is an exciting protocol which hopes to unite everyone together and break down walls for communication set up by proprietary solutions. Using Matrix with the Riot client is a very pleasant experience. With luck we may all be using this protocol to communicate and be done with issues of different contacts using different apps.