In 2020 the world of messaging, VoIP calling, and video calling has literally exploded. On a corporate and business level, giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Zoom, have made it the masters with their stocks that have literally exploded on the stock exchange, while Apple and Facebook which, like small children, have been fighting to the sound of user privacy[…]
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Feedly Notifier. A simple extension for reading RSS
Reading feeds is a very pleasant practice, not at the level of what happened at the time of the old BBS boards and not as gothic and Cyberpunk as the old Usenet rooms, but it is a somewhat retro system to stay informed and up to date. In this modern world, you have a lot of choices to read the[…]
Read moreBliss OS. Android for your x86 personal computer
The project is an Android fork that aims to bring the beauty and the power of the phone/tablet system to the modern desktop and laptop PC. The ‘build’ and ‘alpha’ words should suffice to make you understand that it is absolutely not a software ready for everyday use. Better to abstain, especially if you don’t actually intend to develop –[…]
Read moreDisplay and control your Android device from Linux desktop
What is your favorite superpower? Maybe, the ability to mirror your Android phone on your Linux desktop and to use it as an integrated application. Scrcpy does exactly that and permits you to completely control any Android device, just by connecting it through a simple USB cable. And no root access or hack is needed! This application provides a way[…]
Read moreMandelbrot. How to build an app to view a set
The Mandelbrot set is the set of complex numbers (c) for which repeatedly applying the function fc (z) = z2 + c produces values for which the modulus does not exceed a given value. It this has left you confused, I highly recommend this video which explains all of this is simple terms – there’s no point in me trying[…]
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