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Shortwave: an open source app to listen radio 📻

Today we will learn how to install and use shortwave app on your computer. P.S it requires an active internet connection to stream. What's shortwave? Shortwave is an open source gnome based application, specifically meant to stream radio. This app is only available for Linux users. You can use vlc, rhythm box but you won't have fun using them because they are all in one apps like for playing music and movies and this one just does one thing that is to stream radio. But bruh why stream radio instead of Spotify? Why? Because I like it that way, I don't like the machines, algorithms determine my musical tastes or manipulate me into liking anything. Also it's free and doesn't require an account to just listen to music unlike Spotify. Call me old school but you just can't beat radio as you can get information and listen to music for free, entertainment. You can also stream music through your Chromecast or any casting device as it has casting feature built-in the app

Uniget UI a must have free software for windows users

Today we will learn how to install and use uniget UI software. It is an open source software which is available at GitHub. Open source meaning you can checkout the code and find out if there's anything suspicious about the software. Or you can report the bugs to the developer by raising an issue. So what's uniget UI? How do I explain this to a non-techie person? You know there is something called as terminal in windows which is almost the same as Linux. You can use it to install/remove apps with just one command, but for a normal user it's a bummer so that's why this app exists. It is a all in one place to download your software/apps without using your web browser. Because when you use Google chrome to search for let's say notepad++ The search results might have sponsored links at the top from different developers of the same competition or malware software. I know you are not that gullible to download malware from the internet but just to be safe than to be sorry t

Bitcoin Research #1

These posts are in no particular order and no financial advice is given in these posts  Viewers discretion is adviced and please consult your financial planner before doing any due diligence. These are mere my collection of tweets/memes and what I think about cryptography. Maybe these posts can help you understand cryptography or bitcoin. If there are any repeated posts please mention below 👇, I did not intend for you to go through that experience, it shall be removed at the earliest. These contain documentaries and explanations. Also I'm sorry I'm not going to link them it's just too much of a hassle to link them, just copy paste it in your new tab. It is said that once you start studying bitcoin you should atleast give it 100 hours to read, study and understand the information. Hope.com free resources :- this itself should be more than enough for study https://x.com/Vivek4real_/status/1771198089216364803?s=20 https://x.com/SimplyBitcoinTV/status/1819788434002547047 http

Get paid for receiving sms tested since 2018 (Moneysms app)

You read it right you will get paid from moneysms app for just receiving sms. The app name is called MoneySms. You must keep the app running in the background so that once the sms is received on your phone the app will automatically credit the money. Download the apk from here https://download.moneysmsapp.com/MoneySms.apk Download and open app. Register with your phone number and verify it. Use this referral code D62DE1C4A5 so that we both recieve 0.25 euros . That's it, make sure it is always running. It shows in the notification panel as waiting for sms. Once you receive an unknown sms check in the moneysms app. Go to balance----> check balance and then you can delete that sms. Payment can be recieved in PayPal, bitcoin and Litecoin. If you want the payment proof comment below and I shall upload the payment proof in the post. It is not that you will receive sms daily. There will be time that you will get 5-6 sms daily or nothing. Now you might be thinking why are they paying

How to cast YouTube from phone to pc/laptop

Today we will learn how to watch YouTube on pc/laptop using cast option from your Android or iOS device. How do I go about this tutorial you might wonder? I have a laptop from 2006 and we use it while using AC in another room which doesn't have TV. You need to install  custom userAgent string extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/custom-useragent-string/lejiafennghcpgmbpiodgofeklkpahoe?hl=en-US&utm_source=ext_sidebar You will be able to change the youtube version to that of youtube TV. Enter the desired url: youtube.com/tv In custom userAgent it will be by default written something else like different version, copy paste this code in that box. enter a custom userAgent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Tizen 2.3 ) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/2.3 TV Safari/538.1 Click on the plus button to add the selection, sometimes YouTube.com/tv won't be added so you can also add again. Open YouTube.com/tv on your browser and then it will tell your to activate you

How to use Android usb tethering on older macbooks

Today we will learn how to enable usb tethering from your Android device to macbook.  In this case I'm using a macbook pro mid 2010 model. It is running mac os 10.10 Yosemite.  There isn't any out of the box Android usb support for Mac os running Yosemite, although iphone might work but I've not tried as I don't have an iPhone. The wifi on this device is busted and the usb wifi gives crappy internet speed for larger downloads. So my best bet is to use internet via USB tethering.  Upon research I came to know about a software called ho rndis. Don't download it's latest version as it won't support Yosemite. Download it's version from 2013. I'll leave a link which worked for me here 1) Download https://github.com/jwise/HoRNDIS/releases/download/rel2/HoRNDIS-rel2.pkg 2) Once downloaded open the package it will tell mac os doesn't allow untrusted apps. It's okay. 3) Go to mac os system preferences ---> security & privacy ---> general ---

How to extend your wifi range using Android smartphone.

Today we will learn how to make your Android smartphone as a wifi repeater for free. Why make your Android smartphone as a repeater? Let me explain. I have a phone which gets no internet when my tv is connected to the same wifi. I don't know what is the issue is but I've observed that whenever my tv is turned on, the wifi on my phone becomes useless.  So my phone is there only to receive or do phone calls nothing else. Upon research I came to know that we can use a second phone as a wifi repeater. Follow the following steps 1) Download the net share app from the play store on the Android phone which you want to use as a wifi repeater https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kha.prog.mikrotik 2) Open app and press on setup wifi hotspot. 3) In the below drop-down option it will show proxy settings such as ip address and port number, keep a note of it. 4) On another phone, put the wifi credentials and connect. 5) After connecting you will have to go to that wifi options and i

How to get free VPN in linux

 Today we will learn how to install a free vpn in our linux system. The vpn I'm talking here is proton free vpn.  Although it's free you need to sign up with proton vpn to access the VPN. This tutorial is applicable only for debian based distributions, so proceed with caution if you have arch based os, windows or macos. 1) Go to  https://protonvpn.com/free-vpn and then click on get proton free vpn and then click on continue with free. 2) Sign in or sign up if you don't have an account, after that sign in. 3) On the left menu click on downloads and download for GNU/Linux. If you want it for your operating system do that here. This is direct download link for linux  https://protonvpn.com/download-linux .   After going to that link click on install proton vpn. here if you are confused  https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-vpn-setup/ 4) click on debian  https://protonvpn.com/support/official-linux-vpn-debian/ and follow the onscreen commands from steps 1 to 3. 5) now that you

how to get Matrix screensaver in linux

Hello there, Today we will learn how to get the Matrix code as a screensaver in linux. If you have watched the Matrix movie or like the screen text of the Matrix you can now enjoy it as screensaver. There are two methods to install this screensaver. One is a GUI and another terminal based. Let's start with gui first as many people freakout for terminal method. GUI METHOD 1) If you are already on Ubuntu based distribution like linux mint or mx linux. Then you need to open it's software center like the one in Android called play store.  What's a linux distribution? Linux is broadly categorised into flavours of different types of window managers. Linux was earlier only terminal based but with time we got different versions of linux as it was open sourced. We now have cinnamon, xfce, kde, gnome, openbox based flavours. So for beginners I would recommend trying linuxmint cinnamon edition if you are coming from windows and pop os if you are coming from Mac os. Although they are n

Google messages: universal texting like iMessage for android by default

Nowadays everyone has Google messages installed in their phones right? Excluding some OEMs like samsung or some off brand that does not ship Google messages as default. You can enable rcs chats on samsung phones which will be covered in the later part of this post. Follow on! I've been wanting to write this blog post for quite some time now, so letting all out of my mind in this post in any manner. So, please read carefully. You can now text anyone in your friend circle with just internet but it must have a sim card in it. Internet can be via Wi-Fi or mobile data, it doesn't matter. There's something called as RCS chats which stands for rich communication system. A protocol made by Google for texting which they say is sms 2.0 for the internet. Every phone has the RCS chats feature enabled by default if you bright your phone after the year 2021. If it is not turned on you need to enable it by going into Google messages app's settings. Enable rcs chats. You might need to

Watch free tv from the internet.

While I have cut from cable connection at the wake of expenses in our household. I’m looking for free alternatives to watch content online as we have a wifi connection. Let’s see what I can find this quest of research for online content, Although don’t quote me on the legality of the websites, these are something I found doing research and development. Officially a Cordcutter now. All the options shown below requires a computer with internet connection, a mouse, keyboard. Youtube is free but has some popular movies behind a paywall like rent or buy. So, I stick to free content on youtube and watch news channels and youtube channels which I like in my Subscriptions. free serials and movie shows https://www.desi-serials.cc/ this website had tv channels, webseries and hindi movies. If you live india today news channels like TimesNow, zoom, MirrorNow, ET Now visit here https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/live-tv . This is an Official website. For Anime lover’s I found something which can

How to Read Blocked Articles behind a Paywall for free

  Today we will learn how to read blocked/ restricted content on the internet. Remember when you find a good article and you try to read it. You are welcomed by a only half an article or a pop-up to buy a subscription to read the whole article.  What if I say, that you can now read that exact article, for free.  There is a way but you should only follow this method if you don't have the means to support the particular organisation or you must be Jobless like me .  Before that if you want to try something you could try clearing your cookies on the browser and you might get to read the complete article. You can also try incognito mode to view that article it works for some websites. If all these methods are not working for you then let's get to the real deal. It requires enabling the developer mode of your browser and installing an extension. So let's begin.... 1) Download the extension from GitHub. It is not available in the official google extension repositories. https://gi