Nextcloud is a quality opensource alternative for commercial and “free” file-sharing and cloud platforms. It is originally based on ownCloud (initially released in 2010) and was forked to Nextcloud by the original developer Frank Karlitschek. The software is developed with security in mind, and the basic idea is to keep all the data under the […]
Scrcpy is a free and open source tool that allows you to simply hook your android device to your computer via usb, allowing you to cast the mobile device’s display to your computer screen. It’s available for Windows, mac & Linux, including as a flatpak, snap or deb. Using Scrcpy Scrcpy requires USB debugging to […]
OnePlus is a mobile phone manufacturer famous for selling the OnePlus One with pre-installed CyanogenMod, instead of a bloated custom Android as most manufacturers do. Their newest model OnePlus X was released on November 5th 2015 and after a few days of use, it seems to live up to its promises.
1. Touch is intuitive It’s easy to learn to use a mouse. But touching you don’t need to learn at all. It is so intuitive that even an 1-year old child can interact with touch devices in meaningful ways. And if an 1-year old can use touch devices, so can you mother and grandmother too. […]
Most Android phone manufacturers provide operating system upgrades, so you can run the latest version of Android even with an older smart phone. With closed software phones like iPhone this is not possible, since Apple wants to force its customers into always buying a new phone. However not all Android phone manufacturers provide upgrades, or […]
The official Android project only releases versions for the ARM platform, but there is an unofficial porting project for the Intel x86 platform called Android-x86. Using this version you can in theory install Android on any home computer lying around. In practice however you need to consider what kind of components your device has and […]
Modern touch screen smart phones are great and enables you to do almost anything, but there is one feature that older mobile phones are still better at: battery life. I imagine most smart phone users recharge their devices every other day or so, which is fine as long you have easy access to electricity. However, […]
For some reason, which we where unable to find information on, Google hasn’t published their navigation app for Android in Finland. However it does exist, and it works wonderfully. To install the Google Navi app, you must first uninstall your current Maps app, and then install the modified Maps app with Navi enabled, which can […]
