In addition to the power efficiency, one advantage of an e-ink screen is that it does not illuminate a room at night. And interestingly, a Kindle or similar device still seems to be the cheapest way to get a touch-enabled e-ink display of a reasonable size.

FWIW the Kindle Paperwhite also has an Experimental "Beta Browser" that can display websites and execute some JavaScript - I am using that for a similar project, a basic dashboard / light switch web application hosted on a Raspberry Pi.

https://github.com/janhapke/screendle

I use Pencil, too.

It has some limited features and the UX could be better, but it is open source and works across Linux, OSX and Windows, so other people on the team can edit diagrams I have created.

It is a feature of the GIF format. You can specify how often the animation shall loop or that it should loop forever.

ah I didn't know GIFs could do that.

I found a tool online for changing number of loops, set the value to 1

https://ezgif.com/loop-count

I still use Picasa, because it is so fast and easy to just copy an SD card somewhere to my hard drive and have it show up at the top of Picasa seconds later.

Then I browse the pictures, star the ones I like and process them.

An no other software I have tried so far comes close in terms of speed and UI efficiency.

So I would also love to try PhotoStructure and have signed up via your landing page.

Do you need Photoshop or Lightroom to use these tools or do they work standalone as well? I can't find this info on the website at all.

These can be run standalone also (atleast on windows not sure about mac though)

I don't understand how you can run standalone. I just installed it on Windows 10. The only executable is the uninstaller.

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like Lightroom (or Photoshop, maybe?) is needed to use the Nik Collection.

If you dig into the folders there are more executables.

They work as Paint Shop Pro add-ins, too.

I can highly recommend Dreamlines. It's a great place to work.

Can it play web radio, i.e. shoutcast streams?

no. I installed it, but there's no way to input a url.

Following that link consistently makes my Firefox crash. Anybody else experiencing this?

Crashing firefox here too. I had it crashing multiple times until I realized it was this tab that was causing it.

Working fine for me in Firefox 35.

Same thing for me.

The automatic alignment helps prevent ghosts from camera shake. But it would be interesting to see how they avoid ghosts from moving subjects like leaves in the wind if they are effectively exposing longer (by taking several photos in a row).

I tried a lot of the popular Backup solutions (like Acronis and others I don't remember now), but none of them really worked for me.

I'm using HardlinkBackup for incremental, local USB backups (periodically creates a new folder with a full snapshot of the entire disk but de-duplicates across snapshots with NTFS hard links).

http://www.lupinho.net/hardlinkbackup/

For Cloud Backups I'm a happy Backblaze customer.