

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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How to Quickly Restart a Windows App?
Over the time of using Windows You might encounter apps which sometimes stop reacting to anything - or even worse: they stop reacting pretty often. There are many things which may be the source of the issue - but You might rather prefer to simply use the app instead of carefully investigate what causes the problem.
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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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How To Easily Memorize Difficult Words Spelling.
There are some words which spelling You may find especially difficult to remember. In my case a few examples out of a sleeve are: “consciousness”, “successfully”, “instantaneously”, “simultaneous”, “exaggerated”.
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How to Exchange Files Between Android and PC Wirelessly.
If You have access to a WiFi network and would like to exchange files between a mobile device and a computer or a laptop in an quick and easy way, here is how You could do that without a need to hassle with an USB cable.
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Page Headers Based on Custom Heading.
If You prefer to use Your Own styles within Writer, it’s always nice to have them connected with all the rest Writer’s ‘magic’, like automatically generated Table of Contents or page headers. The latter are especially interesting because they may reflect to which content section (such as a chapter) a currently displayed/read page belongs. However many pages a chapter consists of, and wherever it starts and ends - all its pages may be automatically “signed” within the page header section. Furthermore, all of that can be based on Your Own custom styles :) .
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Table of Contents Based on Custom Headers.
When it comes to work on a more complex document, I like to use my own styles, mostly because it highly elevates the layout readability - especially if You choose “Applied Styles” within the styles side panel (F11; this way the only things You’ll see on the panel are the styles used with this very document on which You’re working right now - moreover, as those styles are of Your Own making, each and every of them would be named in the best recognizable way for You to instantaneously know ‘what is what’).
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How to Set Seamless Paragraph Spacing.
When it comes to books or other publications’ detailed design, empty lines as a means of making paragraphs visually-distinguished may cause You a lot of trouble, especially in the long run. The most frustrating example may be causing the content not to begin exactly with the very top of a next page (which looks pretty bad, especially when it comes to chapter titles or sub-headers). Harnessing master and sub-documents concept helps with chapter titles, but there is still much to be fixed.
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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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How to Get Rid of Ads?
Although there is a way to get rid of ads in Your web-browser (e.g., the AdBlock extension for web-browsers either on Windows or Android), it doesn’t work anywhere but within the web-browser itself. Interestingly there is a method which could cover any program on Your device, which especially comes in handy using Android apps (because many of them display ads).
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Create New Files Faster.
How often do You create new files on Windows? You may notice that the proper context menu (or the “New” submenu of Windows Explorer) for creating new files already contains a bunch of items - it may be that most of them You don’t need. In that case it would be great to clean that menu, leaving only those positions (file types) which You use. That way Your everyday activity of creating new files may become more fluid and faster (the less items You see in a menu - the faster You find what You need).
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How to Easily Change Icons for Particular File Types.
If You’d like to ascribe Your preferred icons for particular file types in Windows, You can use FileTypesMan - a fast and simple freeware tool.
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Anki - How to Install on Older Android Devices.
Recently I had to re-install Android OS on my smartphone and set up everything from scratch. One of many things I needed to do was to install Anki. But there was a surprise: searching Anki via Android Market (I use an old version of Android 2.2.2) brought no results (!). Finally I’ve found Anki searching Google Play via desktop browser - but unfortunately it seems like this tool is no longer available for older Android versions (currently it requires Android 2.3.3 and up).
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How to Quickly Restart a Windows App?