technology

Boximize – easy create/update database, forms and notes

… right from your mobile device for private productivity and currently 4free

What are the top features?

  • 27 ready to use collections (see below for complete list)
  • Customize collections by adding/removing fields or build your own from scratch
  • Enter 20 different types of information (Text, Number, Picture, GPS location, see below for complete list)
  • Password protect your data with a pin code
  • Lightning fast searching and sorting
  • Different themes to choose from
  • Organize photo and video collections
  • Record voice notes
  • Take handwritten notes or sketch drawings
  • Track locations on the map
  • Keep track of timings using a built-in stopwatch

top rated and currently for free (10,99€), download here

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the first website ever … and their furture

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) while working at CERN (in 1989)

the current principales like “Respect and protect people’s privacy and personal data to build online trust” are listed at contractfortheweb.org

try out the first website at CERN – and in the entire world – was dedicated to the World Wide Web was hosted on it’s NeXT computer – using line mode browser simulator

The web was always meant to be a platform for creativity, collaboration, and free invention – but that’s not what we are seeing today

Berners-Lee

He and John Bruce founded back in 2018 a privacy focused company, the main idea is that user can control their data in online storage entities called Personal Online Data Stores (Pods) – the Enterprise Solid Server was launched to provide that service to customers

“Internet, a new human right” on one hand the EU discuss at a round table with Berners-Lee about the principles of internet @EU-Press – on the other hand initate a law about the “challenges” and “balance” about encryption (similar to the five eyes)

PDF Document

The progression of the Web sofar from a network of information (Web 1.0) to a network of people (Web 2.0/Social Media) followed by a network of things (Web 3.0/IoT)

The Best Is Yet To Come

Frank Sinatra
technology

who is tracking you? visualize webtraffic behavior

google recently provided a chrome extention Ads Transparency Spotlight in an early version that visualize what cookies are used by whom

we’re providing this extension to help increase transparency in digital advertising. In the future, we also plan to add controls for users.

further interessting is the firefox plug Lightbeam that visualise the dependence of tracked cookies in the past

quite more interessting is to display what content is loaded from a reqested website, Requestmap visualise gathered data from visited sites and the third parties

scary hmpf … prevent of tracking with tracking free browser like Brave, Ghostery or DuckDuckGo

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picture-in-picture checkup 2020

let’s have a look how to use, why it is useful, what other alternatives are around or how to implement – this was introduced recently in iOS14, appletv already provide this feature, but just in tv app

almost every modern tv got it’s own picture-in-Picture (PiP) and even youtube in browser offers a PiP option with a miniplayer

beginning from api Level 26 the PiP is available for android devices, very useful to navigate with google maps while browse for a new playlist … but:

  • feature support no equal between vendor and app developer (e.g. brave browser doesn’t switch to PiP from fullscreen on honor devices)
  • picturesize is not scaleable, there are just 2 predefined views
  • usability how to open differ from os level or vendor

in my opinion, the best way to view video while doing something beside is splitscreen view with 2 different apps/browsers, although is depends on vendor/app > long press recent apps button on huawei respectively swipe up at samsung with long press relevant app icon to show option, or use app pair from samsungs side panel

with apple’s new mobile os 2020 this feature is finally also available, even your able to make video window larger or pinch to zoom and you got the option to keep audio playing while docking video side and with the benefit of the same behaviour for all iOS devices


copied but well impemented

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save data or at least reduce the consumption, optimize for rural regions, holidays, etc.

your inclusive data volume is up… throttling to 64 kbit/s.

the consuption of data doubles every year, the mobile abo’s evolved as well but there is a gap between the required data volume for services and the availbale mobile capacity, below approximately amount for different services

teams e.g. need for a group websession 1 Mbps, when turn off incoming video it could reduced further for about 75%, tested by myself, round about 1GB per workday

read below some further tipps in different catagories to optimze mobile data consuption


windows

right at your windows10 device, your can select your phone hotspot as a metered connection, cellular data connections are set as metered by default

below you can additionally view data usage per app and set a data limit

chrome android

  • at your android enable for chrome browser the lite mode in settings > advanced > turn on lite mode
  • data usage of apps and set a capacity limit could be reviewed in settings > mobile network > data warning (depending on android vendor)
  • file download, disable in your mail client or chat app the automatic download of media and attachments
  • other browser e.g. Brave to use integrated add blocker and enable data compression
  • battery saver, when enabled disallow app launch in background and disable push notifications

iOS

with iOS13 there is a new feature called low data mode, enabel in settings > mobile data

also possible to review the volume per app in mobile data and disable unreqired

spotify

reduce consuption for your favourite playlist, choose

  1. tab start
  2. tab settings
  3. tab data saver
  4. enable it

offline

try plan to use offline apps, while download and store data infront of traveling, read below

offline is the new online

in times like always connected, it could happen – no connection – no fear, here are apps with offline functionality to bridge with google maps – download areas and maps offline, others maps.me, here   spotify – offline music in flight mode, required premium subscription   amazon kindle – ebooks pay it, download it, read it offline…

… check every app whether it offers a data save option

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websessions with custom background

in times of corona in homeoffice and a lot of websessions it’s a nice feature to hide your background or change carpet color

teams

offer “background effects” to insert custom image to live video, at windows add your custom image here

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads

zoom

called as virtual backgrounds it is also possible to hide real background, for multiple os and even with custom files


webex

called as video background it is for suce possible to add custom background, since a few days also for iOS devices


… and many many more

technology

gather ios device logs on the fly without a mac

it usually requires a mac with configurator installed to gather iOS device logs while troubleshooting an issue, there a some alternatives around…

#1 virtualize macOS

… and use apple’s configurator on windows, read more how to establish this below

touch @macos

apple introduced the “all news” touch bar in 2017 for macbook pro, but what most mac users missing is a touchscreen – the addon airbar, extra hardware attached to the screen, looks unbeautiful every smartpsmartsmaand a lot other notebook own a touchdisplayt, so what to do if you don’t want to run or carry separate device – vitualize…

#2 itools

as an alternative software for iTunes, it it further able to access device logs and is supported at windows & macOS for the following devices

iPhone X, iPhone 8,iPhone 5, iPhone 6, iPhone SE, iPhone 7,iPhone 5C,iPhone 5S, iPhone 6S,iPhone 6 plus, iPhone 6S plus, iPhone 7 Plus, iPod touch, iPad 4,iPad Mini 4, iPad Mini 3 and iPad Mini 2,iPad Pro (9.7 , 12.9 inch),iPad Air and iPad Air 2


#3 buildin analystics

even directly from the device it self it’s possible to gather debug information, with this workaround

  • enable AssistiveTouch
  • select analytics
  • press virtual Homebutton
  • reproduce the issue/crash
  • upload logs
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switch android phone and (easily) reconnect your wear smartwatch

largely relegated to checking notifications, counting steps, and maybe measuring your heart rate from time to time

in Q3 2019 the wearable band shipments grew 65% and propably below some christmas trees

beginning 2020, one-in-five americans use a smart watch or fitness tracker, according to a Pew Research


apple released in 2019 it’s watch series 5 with built-in compass and Emergency SOS application on cellular models

google smartwatches, running wear os, without an update since rename in 2018 – need oem vender to push the mobile os – xiaomi succeed with low prices to the global leader with 27% share – huawei reached annual growth largest wearable growth of 243% – fitbit recently sold to google


what’s embarrassing with wear os is the switch to a new android device, there is no guide to reconnect, you had to erase the watch and reconfigure – some apps on your mobile device offer the option to install as extention onto the watch, but all other needs to be installed manually one by one

but the is a clever guide to use the developer option to reconnect to a new device, without the need of resetting

simply enable usb debugging, disable blueooth, connect your wearable to android studio/adb tos, execute to following

  • adb devices
  • adb shell “pm clear com.google.android.gms && reboot”
  • adb shell “am start -a android,bluetooth.adapter.action.REQUEST_DISCOVERABLE”

detailed guide at xda-developers

apple, technology

iOS13 just released, but already updated

…with some interesting festures:

  • share ETA in maps
  • dynamic wallpapers
  • icon of volume slide

even for enterprise mobility there is some interesing festure, with iOS13.1 it’s possible to silently update an App, it will close, update and continue in kiosk/single app-mode.

more about apple developer beta at beta.apple.com

or read about how to downgrade beta

https://madereal.blog/2019/03/19/downgrade-beta/