Month: May 2019

Google relents slightly in ad-blocker crackdown – for paid-up enterprise Chrome users, everyone else not so much • The Register

Freeloaders will be limited to less capable content filtering

Source: Google relents slightly in ad-blocker crackdown – for paid-up enterprise Chrome users, everyone else not so much • The Register

I will happily discard Google Chrome and its lovely ecosystem in the event that end-user-level content-filtering is rendered significantly inconvenient or worse.  😀  It is truly absurd to accept that software that I run on my machine might be crippled in order to prevent me from blocking content I do not wish to receive; in other words the browser will force you to receive content whether you like it or not.  Doesn’t sound to me to be very free, open, happy, good, independent, democratic, or whatever else we pretend to care about.  🙂

Thank you, Mozilla/Firefox/GNU(Linux)/EFF/Netherlands/The Hague/Star Trek/Costa Rica!  🙂

F#@$ you, Wall Street/Viacom/Time-Warner/Comcast/Dow/Dupont/Johnson&Johnson/Disney/Sony/Facebook

How To Record with the Screen Turned Black & Off in Android

There are some sensible reasons why you might want to record with the screen turned off and some nefarious reasons why you might want to record with the screen turned off. I’m going to assume you want to record

Source: How To Record with the Screen Turned Black & Off in Android

I don’t get it.  Why is it treated so skeptically when a person wants to record video without monitoring the output live?  I would like to press “record” on my phone while I’m driving and continue to use my phone while it continues to record video.  Is that such an edge case??  It seems like bad design to me, not only making assumptions that people should want to record video while monitoring it constantly but enforcing it so that when I switch activities, for example, while recording a video the recording stops.  I didn’t tell it to stop.  Why did it stop?  Why should it stop?  Who determined that the default human expectation should be that when you stop looking at a video recording in progress it ceases to be?

9 Best Clipboard Managers for Android (2019) | TechWiser

Did you just copied a text and lost it while copying another text before pasting the first clip? We review 8 clipboard managers for Android.

Source: 9 Best Clipboard Managers for Android (2019) | TechWiser

I really like Clipper+ but it hasn’t been updated in forever.  :-/

BTW this article is an example of a really good, well-researched product survey.  I’m impressed with how much stuff it showed me that was completely new to me!  Good job, TechWiser and Gaurav Bidasaria!

The Verge: Google reportedly pulls Huawei’s Android license

The Verge: Google reportedly pulls Huawei’s Android license.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/19/18631558/google-huawei-android-suspension

A Theory About Google Play Music on Android

I think I’ve determined that the Google Play Music app on Android has no background services. Maybe that’s why it is so jittery and prone to error; There is no overseer handling things.

What do YOU think?!

I would like to see a more responsive, intuitive, thoughtful engine behind my music player.