Idlier's Tech Craze

HakuNeko is a cross-platform downloader for manga and anime from various websites. HakuNeko was made to help users who download media for circumstances that requires offline usage. The philosophy is ad-hoc consumption, get it when you want to read/watch it. It is not meant to be a mass downloader to stock up thousands of chapters that are just collected and will probably never be read. — https://hakuneko.download/ HakuNeko is the manga downloader I used to download mangas for my Huawei T1-701u tablet. Since having an unsupported android 4.4.2, there are limited supported android apps available. There might be other manga readers and downloaders but I prefer not to use them to keep the storage minimum.  For how to use this app, please go to the link below: https://hakuneko.download/docs/install/ Some connectors would be slower to load so the chapters downloaded would be slower. So far I am using mangabat and mangahub connectors. Some manga chapters have download issues with Man...

When using any desktop Linux distribution, is there a need for a firewall? The simple answer is, "Why not?" Even when you are using a desktop Linux distribution with limited services opened to the Internet,  it is recommended to use a firewall as you do not know if there is any malware accidentally installed on your computer. Why take the risk? Another reason is that since there is a simple firewall available ( Uncomplicated Firewall ) that you can just enable and forget it existed.  The Uncomplicated Firewall (ufw) is a frontend for iptables and is particularly well-suited for host-based firewalls. ufw provides a framework for managing netfilter, as well as a command-line interface for manipulating the firewall. ufw aims to provide an easy to use interface for people unfamiliar with firewall concepts, while at the same time simplifies complicated iptables commands to help an administrator who knows what he or she is doing. ufw is an upstream for other distributions and graph...

Image from ghacks.net Double Commander is a free cross platform open source file manager with two panels side by side. It is inspired by Total Commander and features some new ideas. — doublecmd.sourceforge.io I have been addicted to using two-panel file managers since the availability of the Norton Commander application for MSDOS (see picture below) for every operating system that I use. Double commander is able to work in Windows or Linux so it suits most people, especially for those who use both OSes.  Norton Commander image from es.all10soft.com      The advantage is that these type of file managers works best using the keyboard compared to using the mouse for a normal file manager. It is also very efficient for those who prefer to use keyboards than mouse as using the function keys to intimate a function (copy, move or rename, create directory, etc).       Features of Double Commander:  Unicode support. Tabbed interface. Multi-r...

  Image from news.softpedia.com VirtualBox is free, enterprise-ready virtualization software for Windows users. Developed by the Oracle Corporation, the tool lets users run different operating systems on their computers. It’s a feature-rich product and is one of the only professional virtualization tools available as open-source software. It’s updated regularly by its community of users, and Oracle ensures that the released product meets professional standards. VirtualBox is quite popular and also available for download on devices running macOS. — filehippo.com For a person like me who likes to play with OSes (Windows, Linux, and Unix), virtualization technology is my best friend as I can install multiple OS into a single laptop and play with them.  VirtualBox is a free desktop virtualization application that I usually use. Even beating VMware player and Microsoft VirtualPC by features and usability.       The virtualization space was first made popula...

  Image from linuxconfig.net GNU Midnight Commander (also known as mc, the command used to start it, and as mouseless commander in older versions is a free cross-platform orthodox file manager. It was started by Miguel de Icaza in 1994 as a clone of the then-popular Norton Commander. — en.wikipedia.org Seeing this two-panel file manager reminds me of the Norton Commander for MSDOS that I love to use. It is very efficient for people who prefer to use keyboards instead of the mouse.       MC is divided into two columns. Left column and right column. Those columns are independent window from each other. Each window will represent an active directory. You can switch between window using the Tab button. At the bottom, you will see there are buttons prefixed by a number. Those numbers represent F1 – F10 buttons.       As a file manager, I use it mainly to move and copy files. There are some other features that I don't use but is available...