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nothing but alternatives

locked to a single provider of your services or your using a service the doesn’t fit perfekt and you look for an alternative, here is the solution

alternative.me provide nothing but alternatives – simply add the current app/service/business application your using and check what possible alternatives are around, e.g. switch from chrome to brave browser

they also check the appeal in categorys women, men, kids, luggage, hobbies & sports

finally they analyze emotions and sentiments with a schema to generate the fear & greed index for crypto currencies

interesting portfolio mix with clever benefits

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mobile os version in 2019

with over 2 billions of android device world wide running android but with a large version fragmentation, google is acting with project treble to push faster updates, for enterprise recommended devices has to push security update within 90 days – attached current version spread of android versions

firstclass support for it’s iOS devices, good choise in regarding return of invest – my 5 years old test device iPhone 6s already updated to the current iOS13

.. and even new releases got a great adoption rate for apple devices, already half of all iOS devices running the latest release

kaiOS quietly gained to one of the most used mobile operating system, it bridges the gap between feature phones and smartphones

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second screen – how to multi screen | updated

let’s check how to use display content at a second screen to raise productivity, there are several options to enlarge your screen, the power of your mobile device is most of the time enough to serve multi screen

windows

project, duplicate, extend are availabe options when hit windows key + p to open up charms bar with available options to display wired connected to hdmi or wireless adapter via miracast

macos

to add an unwired further screen like an ipad, android, windows or even another mac – use airdisplay or interesting as a hardware solution lunadisplay

since macos catalina the sidecar extend screen natively with iPad

2019-10-07 21_07_16-macOS Catalina is available today - Apple

huawei

got it’s own desktop mode when connected via hmdi to a tv, attach keyboard, show presentation direct from your mobile or mirror your mobile screen wireless to miracast or chromecast

windows phone

continuum is/was a clever system, but HP Elite X3 was the latest device to support it, microsoft finally quite the phone project

read more about ..

2019-10-07 21_11_45-mirroring, casting, streaming, etc. – madereal – enterprise mobility – innovatio

samsung

offers wir dex a hadware adapter to connect you samsung mobile to your monitor, keyboard, etc. – looks like combinded version of huawei and continuun, intersting to access from mobile device via dex dock to virtual desktop

blackberry

blend seamlessly brings messaging and content that’s on your blackberry smartphone to your desktop and tablet

anycast

if the is no build in solution, this is problalby the best way that support airplay, miracast, dlna up and up to 4k in a single device

dualscreen

Galaxy-Fold_main1this trend driven further since microsoft shortly announced the android powered surface duo and surface neo both with a buildin second screen – samsung already released a dualscreen device with it’s fold, huawei will maybe following

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new forms of malware via calendar invite even more annoying

more often noticed and actually effected by myself – google calenar display per default new invites from inbox, usually displayed in calendar for easy scheduleing or to block the timeslot – so attacker can target your gmail account to push notification directly to your mobile device when the fake calendar entry occurs

to get rid of this spam, it’s not enough to delete each calendar entry, because a new invite immediately popup’s in your calendar – your have to disable the feature “automatically add invitations” in google calendar event settings

further … a vulnerability in WIB sim-browser can let attackers globally take control of hundreds of millions of the victim mobile phones worldwide to make a phone call, send SMS to any phone numbers, send victim’s location, launch WAP browser, etc. – read more

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load webpages with different user agents, quick and easy without any plugin

… if you want to test or troubleshoot your mobile webpage or browser app it’s quite tricky from desktop – mobile webapplication deliver content based on the browsers user agent – there are severals browser plugins to switch the agent – but all major browser offer a build in feature to change the behaviour

google chrome

in settings > more tools > developer tools (Crtl + Shift + I) below network conditions your able to switch user agent – e.g. search at google to display

microsoft edge and internet explorer

F12 developer tools (press F12) > Emulation opens an onboard user agent switcher

mozilla firefox

webpage is loaded in same way an iPad would do – type about:config in addressbar, search for useragent and create a new entry

string: general.useragent.override

value: Mozilla/5.0(iPad; CPU OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26(KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5355d Safari/8536.25

macOS safari

enable in settings > advanced the option show develop menu in menu bar

iOS devices

since iOS13 / iPadOS – safari browser of the apple tablet can switch between mobile and desktop presentation of a webpage, as shown in the video below

android devices

install e.g. Rocket Browser to test the behavoir of other user agents, in Settings > General Settings is it possible to change the user agent – developed android webapps can define an own user agent with java code webview.getSettings().setUserAgentString(MyString);


test your Browser features here and see what’s your browser capable of

https://launchr.eu/browser/


android tips & tricks everyone should know
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as unsmart as possilbe

wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name

if wikipedia don’t know it, is it worth to think about it? is the opposite of smart just “not smart”?

digitalisation

is the driver to be more and more effective

arrow

read more: artificial intelligence

where are running to

smart manufacturing, smart power, internet of things, smart home, blockchain, internet of humans?

we optimize everyday – new tools to improve, new technique to handle, new security to protect, new data to analyse

pause

isn’t it smart to be sometimes uneffective – dumb phone @telegraph

we move forward in an extraordinarily rapid pace, time to step back and check what’s important – more work life balance, more offline

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digital detox

christmas time, family time – decide for a smartphone diet, focus to the really important things

  • turn you device in airplane/fight mode
  • configure do not disturbe

  • remove unneccesary notifications
  • clean desk, delete apps

  • work profile could turned off for android enterprise

or

  • reactivate your old school watch
  • buy an classic alarm clock
  • shut down your smartphone
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mirroring, casting, streaming, etc.

let’s check the main differences, possiblities, describe examples and how business utilize mirroring, select term:

streaming – casting – mirroring – miracastairplaychromecastamazondlnamirrorsharesamsung – clicksharechromecastappletv


streaming

is the technology to get to your data, data needs to be transfered and could directly viewed while transfering, other that simply copy and paste between to places

casting

the content from internet (netflix) goes direct to your tv, optional initiat the connection from your smartphone, you could leave the network without interrupting the stream

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mirroring

to display the exact same content at another display, in fact if you leave the wifi the transmissing is broken

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miracast

despite from it’s name, miracast is also a screen-mirroring protocol @wikipedia, miracast is vendor independant, integrated in tv or seperate hdmi stick, even windows10 device could mirrored

airplay

is a streaming protocol between apple devices, your able to stream music but also mirror your device screen to an apple tv, other remote controller could “learned” to control apple tv, offer access to apple’s appstore

streaming_appletv

update: simulate airplay to stream from ios devices to android tv with airreceiver app

chromecast

google offers a lot streaming devices with this name, integrated in every android device, it’s the largest framework, more smart with integration of speakers, similar setup with amazon’s alexa possible, integrated in many apps to watch live tv, stream from you synology nas and for sure in every google app, example in medialibary below

2018-12-02 19_16_23-streaming-mirroring.pptx - PowerPoint.png

arrow read also: how to configure your synology nas

amazon
offer it’s own devices (fire tv stick) to display it’s own contect (amazon music, prime video), but current device doesn’t support miracast anymore, amazon’s fling as chromecast pendant discontinued, see some fire tv app screens attached below, but with android apps quite powerful to customize

dlna
alliance founded by ease sharing digtal media, handling often not that userfriendly, local app render content to be displayed at a supported dlna device (tv) e.g. allcast app, not mirroring supported

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mirrorshare
huawei’s native feature to mirror your device to a connected tv, but mirrorshare support miracast, for chromecast you need to install dedicated google home app

samsung

also samsung got it’s own sharing option – allshare, now called smartview to easily share between samsung camera, samsung laptop, samsung phones, samsung tabs, samsung …

smartcast

vizio updated it’s tv’s with smartcast 3.0, able to stream from any mobile device, native ios support with airplay 2.0, no additional device or dongle needed @blog.vizio


business …

…even more got the challange to guarantee the usability and  functionallity

barco-clickshare-cse-200
clickshare

is an enterprise solution, stable and expensive, needs to be connected to the device, multiple device can mirror to a tv

chromecast

do not support wpn2 enterprise, no device management possiblities, perfect for private use – no enterprise grade

appletv

enrolled with apple’s device enrol lment program, managed with an emm system, connected to 802.1x wifi networks and restricted with buildin policies, perfect for enterprise with apple devices