Android Lockscreen - June 2021.
Very interesting cat-style digits :) .
MIUI theme: Amoled2.
Pidgin: Failed to Read Thrift.
Pidgin-wise (lightning-fast and light Messenger like You’ve never experienced before) Facebook issue arises again:
Failed to read thrift: api.c:1897 fb_api_cb_publish_pt: assertion 'fb_thrift_read_stop(thft)' failed
...waiting for the fix.
jDownloader rules :) .
I find it very interesting that free/libre app jDownloader 2 can download Rumble videos while its commercial counterparts Any Video Downloader Pro and MediaHuman YouTube Downloader (which I’ve recently tested) can’t. Since even @YtbDownBot (a Telegram bot: “Download files/videos/audio from most websites”) cannot handle this, I consider jDownloader 2 the most effective app to download stuff. Oh, and keep in mind that jDownloader is not especially dedicated to download videos from YouTube/Rumble/etc. - while the two apps mentioned above are.
Nutmeg-flavored coffee.
Since yesterday I drink nutmeg-flavored coffee - very interesting taste :) !
My Android desktop - May 2021
Here is one snapshot out of my current desktop set. This is an old KLWP preset I designed and just modify over the time to fit my needs. I wanted to show You what I especially like today: a nice relation of two spheres on the top left, one being a weather icon (beautiful Komponent Weather Classs set I still love) and a FTP Server widget (here active).
‘Memories Midnight’.
A glimpse into the past.
One of my fondest memories from this lifetime are years when I’ve been conducting my own e-zine. At the beginning it had been distributed in an off-line form - a few issues later it reaches the Net.
Long story short, the whole thing was an incredibly pleasant, exciting and satisfactory experience. To this day I remember how I forced myself to keep going late into the night to meet the upcoming deadline :) . It was fantastic to create and coordinate various things which altogether make up the final magazine (I was a chief editor, a writer, a web and graphics designer, and a manager).
Among things I liked the most was to write a preface. Each time it was like celebrating a new birth, recognizing and emphasizing its leading traits (each issue had been different, each deserved its own ‘theme’ or tone).
Now, when that time had passed long ago, I am at the beginning of another vision of my website. Wondering about its character I’ve reminded myself of those good times of the past and decided to reflect them at least to some degree, today. I thought: “Why not to apply a magazine-like form to it?” With its own occasional preface, highlights, and maybe even “issues” - although I’d like to treat them more metaphorically than formally, with more flexibility (meaning: no specific boundaries between one and another).
I find it a brilliant and brisk idea which inspires me much. Therefore I’ve decided to take that path and re-design Trail of the Light in this mold.
In the meantime, graphics-wise, it turned out to be nightly... mysterious... and, perhaps, a little bit nostalgic. I came back to my original logotype from That Time - although I’ve been experimenting with other ones down the road, this one (and my very first one, in fact) always managed to show up one way or another, throughout my design. Therefore, I thought, the time is right for it to take the main place again. Back to the beginning, back to things I still highly value - although reborn through all the new experience I’ve gained. Even technically-wise it’s a kind of a come-back: switching from Blogspot to TextPattern, years after I’ve done the opposite.
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Brave New Theme.
My fresh new theme for Brave/Chrome/etc. Chromium-based browsers - alongside with how to install it.
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Privacy of Your Web-Browsing.
You might not know that every time You visit a website, the information what website You’re visiting is relatively easily available for 3rd parties (...).
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My Favorite Chrome Extensions.
Convenient web-browsing, an incredible RSS reader and other useful extensions which You also might enjoy :) !
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Use Special Characters As Bookmark Folder Names.
By default You can access Your web browser bookmarks by pulling out its list from the browser’s menu. Bookmarks bar makes the thing much more convenient: it makes bookmarks always visible (usually just below the address bar). To enable it go to Your web browser settings and check “Show bookmarks” (or “Show bookmarks bar”).
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How to Set Brave Profile Name and Picture?
Faster than Chrome and private? But You can still use all the Chrome themes and extensions? It’s about time :) !
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A Speed Dial Chrome Plug-In Which Makes Me Happy.
One amazing thing in Chrome is that to this day it doesn’t have any well-looking Speed Dial page. Although there are plenty of Chrome plug-ins compensating this matter - it’s a shame that there is no native feature for this.
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Brave New Theme.
