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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Let’s make Hawaiian alive again :) !
Yesterday (March 23, 2021) I began to learn Hawaiian :) ! Inspired by this article (which I’ve read long ago), I decided to give DuoLingo app a try.
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Five Essential and Powerful Habits I Find Crucial.
- Habitual Backup at Every Change I Would Miss.
- Give It a Chance Regardless of Likelihood or Mood.
- Underestimated Power of Small Systematic Steps.
- Patience May Turn Out Invaluable.
- A Few-Moments Action Always Taken Right Off The Bat.
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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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A Brilliant Simple Idea for Contemporary Learning a Language - Live.
An interesting and creative idea for learning a foreign language has been recently shared on Vivaldi blog. It incorporates one of the browser’s feature called “Notes”, which allows to write down notes alongside websites You’re browsing. Then, notes are both automatically saved (i.e., no need to click “Save” anywhere) and synchronized throughout Your devices (e.g., between a PC and a smartphone).
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My Top 10 Creative Life Hacks.
I find the matter of optimizing Your work habits crucial and definitely worth attention. It may significantly impact both Your work’s quality and quantity, distinctly affecting the amount of time and effort necessary to achieve various tasks. Whatever You do, it may become more fluent, so - in the long run - it may improve Your whole life (the better You feel while working - the more content You may feel on a daily basis).
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Learning English - a New Exciting Source of Knowledge.
Learning English is one of my current passions. Recently I’ve mentioned of the discovery of the “Idiom of the Day” newsletter, which excited me and enabled to create a new Anki deck. It also provides me new material - which makes me very happy :) - every day I receive another idiom (potentially new for me!) and by that my knowledge can expand (this is also the reason why I find the Anki concept so exciting).
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Idiomatic Surprise.
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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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Let’s make Hawaiian alive again :) !
