by Johnson Yip
on September 3, 2015
FocusWriter is a simple, fast, and reliable free word processor, and writing program for Windows, Linux, Raspberry Pi, and Mac OS X. It can open, and save TXT text, basic RTF rich text, and basic ODT files. FocusWriter is a distraction free writing program which justs shows you a textbox, and hides the menu bar, and program buttons when you are typing, so you are less likely to get distracted, and can use the entire screen for typing on. There is also a fullscreen typing mode to use the entire screen for typing documents. FocusWriter is a good word processor for computers with smaller monitors with lower screen resolutions like 800×600 or 800×480 because FocusWriter can be setup to use the entire screen. It is also pretty easy to change the font size, and style, so text is easier to read, and type out on smaller monitors. It is also a good word processor for quickly typing out notes without worrying that FocusWriter will randomly crash, freeze, or slowdown my computer when I have a big document open.
If you want to see the toolbar, and menubar, you need to move your computer mouse to the top edge of the screen, and move it downwards.
You can also see the open Documents in FocusWriter by moving the mouse to the bottom of the screen. At the bottom of FocusWriter are tabs, and also the time at the bottom right. There is also a Timer feature which you can use by clicking on the clock. [continue reading…]
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Windows,
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by Johnson Yip
on September 2, 2015
Iceweasel web browser is a free Firefox based tabbed web browser which works on the Raspberry Pi 1 and 2 mini computers, and Debian. Iceweasel can be installed on the Raspbian operating system which is for the Raspberry Pi. Iceweasel is a good web browsers for Raspbian. It has as many features as Firefox, and is more reliable than the default web browsers which I used in Raspbian. Iceweasel turns your Raspberry Pi into a extremely affordable casual web browsing desktop PC which can visit many websites without viewing problems. The reason Iceweasel is called Iceweasel is because it can’t use the word Firefox in its name because the Firefox brand belongs to Mozilla like how Google Android based operating systems like CyanogenMod, Amazon Fire’s OS, etc can’t use Google Android in its name because Google belongs to Google.
The Raspberry Pi is a mini PC which can be used to create offline content like documents, images slideshow presentations, software programs, and other types of content, and to watch video with Kodi, and OMXplayer.
Iceweasel has most of the features of Firefox because Iceweasel is based on Firefox, so Firefox extensions/add-ons and plug-ins work on Iceweasel. I can also use Icewesel to watch YouTube videos because YouTube now plays video with HTML5, and Iceweasel supports HTML5 content. Playing back YouTube videos in Iceweasel installed on the more powerful Raspberry Pi 2 is pretty smooth in my experience where videos don’t slowdown. I can also use Iceweasel to go on SoundCloud.com to listen to music hosted on Soundcloud.com. General web browsing on blogs, forums, social networks, WordPress blogs, and regular websites is pretty good on Iceweasel on my Raspberry Pi 2. Iceweasel uses about 178MB of RAM, and less than 1% CPU when it is idle according to the Task Manager program in Raspbian. Iceweasel does not crash a lot when I use it compared to other web browsers which seems to crash a lot where the entire window is unusable. Iceweasel also ask you to stop website scripts like Javascripts from running if they are slowing down Iceweasel instead of freezing the whole web browser where it is unusable like how Firefox also ask you to stop unresponsive scripts. There is an add-on called No Script which blocks scripts from loading in Firefox which makes using Firefox and Iceweasel faster, and more reliable. But, for more complicated websites like blogs, and forums, you may need to allow some scripts from the website, and other sites to run in Noscript, so the website would work. I also have ImageBlock add-on installed on Iceweasel to block images which makes sites like YouTube, blogs, and social networks load a lot faster when I just want to watch video on YouTube, or read articles, but don’t want to wait for the images to load on the Raspberry Pi which is slower than most modern PCs, so very big images can take a long time to load, and sometimes slow down the entire website. [continue reading…]
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desktop web browser,
firefox,
iceweasel,
raspberry pi,
raspberry pi web browser,
Raspbian,
web browser
by Johnson Yip
on August 28, 2015
Uninstaller made by Rhythm Software is a free app uninstaller/remover app for uninstalling your unwanted apps which you installed yourself, or were installed by your device maker, and other apps. The advantages of removing unwanted apps is that you have more free space, so you can install other apps, download more files to your device, and your device runs faster because some apps like social networking apps run in the background until you uninstall them. Once you uninstall background apps, you should have more free RAM, and CPU cycles for running other apps like web browsers, office programs. and games.
I like that Uninstaller is simple to use, and faster than using the built-in uninstaller in Android because Uninstaller user interface loads quickly, and is very lightweight.
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google android,
google android app uninstaller,
uninstall android apps,
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