Chat heads is a great feature, Paranoid Android team took inspiration from it to make their own chat heads for all apps, with a nice pop-up window showing the complete app. In one word, "Halo".
Quite in the same time, Floating Notification project started: the goal is to have something similar to Halo and chat heads, but for every ROM, without needing root permissions.
This app is really nice and promising, congrats to the developers, they have a bright future in front of them.
Links
[XDA] Floating Notifications
[XDA] Floating Notifications themes
Paranoid Android website
Many thanks to BBQScreen developer xplodwild ( xplod.fr ) to have made such a great application!
May 25, 2013
Kingsoft Office Alpha 10 for linux quick demo
As I promised, here you have a NEW video! Two videos in (almost) one day! Remember to give me suggestions, I really enjoy making these videos and I appreciate every single comment you write, remember.
Video description:
Quick overview of Kingsoft Office (a.k.a. WPS Office), really nice and promising Office suite available for free. It includes Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheet to manage your documents. It should offer a good support for Microsoft Office documents.
Kingsoft Office Alpha download page (yes, the latest version is the alpha, the beta is old and doesn't include english):
http://community.wps.cn/download/#alpha
For Arch users, this is available on AUR. For everyone else, there are both .deb and .rpm files
Video description:
Quick overview of Kingsoft Office (a.k.a. WPS Office), really nice and promising Office suite available for free. It includes Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheet to manage your documents. It should offer a good support for Microsoft Office documents.
Kingsoft Office Alpha download page (yes, the latest version is the alpha, the beta is old and doesn't include english):
http://community.wps.cn/download/#alpha
For Arch users, this is available on AUR. For everyone else, there are both .deb and .rpm files
May 24, 2013
[Video Tutorial] Integrate every Chrome web app with the system
Hello again! It's been quite a long since my last video, but now I'm back with a nice tutorial, and there is more to come!
The title is self explainatory: an easy, painless way to integrate web apps with system apps. Now GMail Offline makes sense to me.
The title is self explainatory: an easy, painless way to integrate web apps with system apps. Now GMail Offline makes sense to me.
May 16, 2013
Google+: disable the new two column interface
Many of you could have noticed that Google+ has a new two columns interface, similar to the tablet app. But many people seem not to like this new look, so here it is a tutorial on how to have a one column interface.
First of all go over the house button in the top left corner with your mouse
Now click on the settings buttion
Scrool down to Accessibility (it could have a different name, I translated it from the italian "Accessibilità ") and check the only option present under that section.
Ta dah! Here you have your boring one column interface! Enjoy!
P.S.: As you could have noticed, I like the new interface, just to say...
March 29, 2013
IFER: Install From External Repository
Introducing IFER, a new command line tool to speed up some common apt operations.
Are you tired of the boring process of installing packages from external repositories manually?
These are the commands you would normally need under a Debian environment to install lollitude-wtf from ppa:lollitudesoft:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lollitudesoft
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lollitude-wtf
Well, with IFER this is no more a problem! You would just have to run:
sudo ifer -i lollitude-wtf ppa:lollitudesoft
And that's it! No more problems!
Now imagine that you wanted to install the new ipear-music-player from ppa:ipear-os, the official system ipear-os repository, but installing that repository would require some "system updates" that change your already existing packages to the one from ipear-os. That would probably brake your installation! So you would have to remove the repository manually after the package installation.
With IFER this is just easier, all you have to do is running:
sudo ifer -iR ipear-music-player ppa:ipear-os
And here you are! The new music player is installed and your system is OK!
And how much would you pay for it?
200$?
50$?
A penny?
NO: IT'S FREE SOFTWARE!
You can download it from here:
[LINK]
Have fun!
Are you tired of the boring process of installing packages from external repositories manually?
These are the commands you would normally need under a Debian environment to install lollitude-wtf from ppa:lollitudesoft:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lollitudesoft
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lollitude-wtf
Well, with IFER this is no more a problem! You would just have to run:
sudo ifer -i lollitude-wtf ppa:lollitudesoft
And that's it! No more problems!
Now imagine that you wanted to install the new ipear-music-player from ppa:ipear-os, the official system ipear-os repository, but installing that repository would require some "system updates" that change your already existing packages to the one from ipear-os. That would probably brake your installation! So you would have to remove the repository manually after the package installation.
With IFER this is just easier, all you have to do is running:
sudo ifer -iR ipear-music-player ppa:ipear-os
And here you are! The new music player is installed and your system is OK!
And how much would you pay for it?
200$?
50$?
A penny?
NO: IT'S FREE SOFTWARE!
You can download it from here:
[LINK]
Have fun!
March 28, 2013
pakman: use pacman commands, make apt do the job
Today I said to a friend of mine wich is an Arch Linux user: "Can you install apt on Arch?". After googling it, we found out that... yes, he can!
Then I wondered: "What if I install pacman on Ubuntu then?".
Well, I can't do it, too much work and I don't have the capabilities, but... actually I can write bash scripts...
And that's what I did: I wrote a bash script that receives pacman commands, interpretates them and execute an apt or dkpg command.
I found out that pacman is actually an existing package in my repos, so, to avoid conflicts of any kind, I called it pakman.
The suggested process for the installation is the following:
1) rename the file gabmus_pacman.sh.txt to gabmus_pacman.sh
2) move the file to /opt
3) execute the following command: sudo ln -s /opt/gabmus_pacman.sh /usr/bin/pakman
And that's it! Just run pakman with the classic pacman options and the name of the packages into your debian repos.
Here is the link to the file on Google Drive:
[LINK]
Have fun!
Then I wondered: "What if I install pacman on Ubuntu then?".
Well, I can't do it, too much work and I don't have the capabilities, but... actually I can write bash scripts...
And that's what I did: I wrote a bash script that receives pacman commands, interpretates them and execute an apt or dkpg command.
I found out that pacman is actually an existing package in my repos, so, to avoid conflicts of any kind, I called it pakman.
The suggested process for the installation is the following:
1) rename the file gabmus_pacman.sh.txt to gabmus_pacman.sh
2) move the file to /opt
3) execute the following command: sudo ln -s /opt/gabmus_pacman.sh /usr/bin/pakman
And that's it! Just run pakman with the classic pacman options and the name of the packages into your debian repos.
Here is the link to the file on Google Drive:
[LINK]
Have fun!
March 16, 2013
Jimu: develop android apps with blocks
Guys, now I want to ask you something important: would you want to have an app, a tool that makes you rapidly create advanced apps with just simple building blocks? This project is pretty similar to the MIT app inventor project, but kinda better. These guys need you! Help them on kickstarter, and remember that every single dollar is important for them. If you don't want to donate, just share this post or the link below, this WILL make the difference. Thank you.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1846050961/jimu-building-blocks-for-your-android-app
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