🕶️ GalleryVault

GalleryVault is a privacy protection app to easily hide and encrypt your photos, videos and any other files that you do not want others to see.

GalleryVault can hide its app icon and keep your privacy absolutely safe. You can import your private images and videos in this secure vault, and nobody knows the existence of it.

Main Features:

* Hide photos, hide videos and hide any other types of files.
* The hidden files are all encrypted.
* Support hiding icon and no one knows the existence of Gallery Vault except you.
* Integrated with Private Web Browser and protect the browser history and personal data from leaking.
* No storage limitation to hide photo and hide video.
* Shake your phone to close Gallery Vault in a hurry.
* Support hiding and playing GIF images.
* Support Break-in Alerts and know who is trying to break-in.
* Support Fake Passcode and show fake content when you input fake passcode.
* Support Fingerprint and pattern unlock.

#app #android #privacy

​​😎 How to play old games right in the browser

All the old games that we had on consoles and old computers can now be run through the browser of a smartphone or laptop. Sounds like magic, doesn't it?

How to do it:

1. Visit the website: https://www.playretrogames.com/
2. Click on the list icon next to the phrase "Latest Retro Games" and it will give you the categories of games, choose the one you need.
3. Scroll through the list that appears, select the desired game. Then you will have a game screen and you just have to enjoy your favorite game.

The service is absolutely free.

#service #lifehack

​​👉 An Open Source alternative for Google Play Store

Aurora Store is an unofficial, FOSS client to Google's Play Store with an elegant design.

Aurora Store does not require Google's proprietary framework to operate. It works perfectly fine with or without Google Play Services or MicroG.

Features:

* Free/Libre software;
* Built upon latest Material Design guidelines;
* You can log in and download with anonymous accounts so you don't have to use your own account;
* You can download purchased apps or access your wishlist by using your own Google account;
* Exodus integration — Instantly see trackers an app is hiding in its code.

#app #android

​​🤷 How to Restore Deleted Instagram Stories, Reels or Posts on iPhone?

For restoring stories on Instagram, you need to make sure that the story was archived. By default, Instagram archives all of your stories after the initial 24 hours of upload. But if the archive is turned off, and it has been more than 24 hours since you deleted the story, you can’t use this method to restore your deleted story.

Step-by-step guide:

1. Launch the Instagram app on your iPhone.
2. Tap on the profile icon in the bottom right corner of your screen and tap on the triple-line icon at the top-right corner to access more options.
3. Choose “Settings” from the list of options that show up, inside the Settings menu, tap on the “Account” option.
4. Inside the Account menu, you will see the option “Recently Deleted.” Tap on it.
5. Now you will all your recently deleted posts, stories, reels, all in one place. These items only stay in the Recently Deleted section for 30 days.
6. Tap on the post or story you want to restore, and you will get a preview of it on your screen.
7. Tap on the triple-dot icon at the bottom-right corner of your screen.
8. From the list of options that show up, choose “Restore.”
9. You will see another prompt asking for confirmation. Tap on “Restore” again to confirm your action.

If the story you want to restore was shared within the last 24 hours and deleted from your Story Highlights, it will be added back to Story Highlights. And if it was deleted from your Story archives, it will be restored to the archives.

#iphone #guide #lifehack

​​🔥 Best Telegram Bots For You

✅ @movieS4Bot. Movies Tracker allows to get all the information about any movie. You just need to type in the name of the movie and the bot will find out all the information from IMDB including the cast, plot, reviews, etc.

✅ @SkeddyBot. It is a reminder bot that messages you reminding things. You can create reminders by sending a text message.

✅ @filetobot. It saves files on the cloud with unlimited storage. You can send files in the chat and they will get stored category wise.

✅ @getmediabot. It allows you to get any media files from all over the Internet. You just need to enter the query and it’s all done. Here is the list of services that it provides: Download Music, Download Video, Search Lyrics, Download Instagram Story, Direct Download Media.
The Direct Download feature could be used to download media from Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and Soundcloud.

#telegram #lifehack

🔑 Open Source Multi-Currency Wallet

Cake Wallet allows you to safely store, send receive and exchange your Monero, Bitcoin, and Litecoin and also buy Bitcoin with debit/credit cards.

Main Features:

* Completely noncustodial. Your keys, your coins.
* Built-in exchange for dozens of pairs.
* Buy cryptocurrency with credit/debit/bank.
* Sell cryptocurrency by bank transfer.
* Scan QR codes for easy cryptocurrency transfers.
* Create several wallets.
* Select your own custom nodes/servers.
* Backup to external location or iCloud.
* OpenAlias and Unstoppable Domains.
* Set custom fee levels.
* Store local transaction notes.
* Extremely simple user experience.

#app #android #iphone

✅ Shepherd

Shepherd is a free Chrome extension helping companies and teams adapt to the future of work by running more productive meetings.
Shepherd allows effortlessly run and organise all of your meetings in one place. It is compatible with Google calendar, Chrome/Edge/Brave and Google Meet.

Main Features:

* Quick & Convenient - take meeting notes instantly from your calendar and video.
* Collaborative - take shared and private notes with your team in real-time.
* Organised - create custom agendas, assign tasks, mentions.
* Connected - share your notes to other apps (Slack, Trello, Notion and more).

#addon #chrome

🔎 Google Go

Google Go is a lighter, faster way to search, with search results optimised to save up to 40% data.

It allows to get answers quickly and reliably, even on slow connections and smartphones with low space. It’s fast to download and saves space on your phone.

Main Features:

* Save time by tapping your way through trending queries and topics, or by using your voice to say what you’re looking for.
* Point your camera at text or listen to any web page. Words are highlighted as they are read, so you can easily follow along.
* Easily and quickly access your favorite apps and websites, as well as images, videos and information on the things you care about.
* Explore the latest trending topics just by tapping Search.
* Tap on “Images” or “GIFs” to find the best photos and animated greetings to liven up your chats.

#app #android #lifehack

💬 Fritter

Fritter is an open source frontend for Twitter, focusing on giving you the best experience and keeping your data private, local and in your hands.

Main Features:

- 🔒 Privacy: No tracking, with all data stored locally.
- 💬 Subscriptions: Follow and group accounts.
- 🔖 Bookmarks: Save tweets locally and offline.
- 📈 Trends: See what's trending in the world.
- 🔎 Search: Find users and tweets.
- 🌙 Light and Dark themes: Protect your eyes.

Fritter will never track your actions in the app, or send your personal data to a third-party. All your data (subscriptions, groups, tweets and settings) are stored locally, on your device, and no Twitter account is required to use any feature.

#app #android

​​🔐 How to encrypt WhatsApp chat backups in iCloud on iPhone

All WhatsApp messages are encrypted by default, but when you upload them to iCloud, iCloud can see those messages.
The process to turn encryption for these backups on or off can be done within the iOS WhatsApp application.

Step-by-step guide:

1. Open WhatsApp Settings.
2. Go into Chats → Chat & Backup → End-To-End Encrypted Backup.
3. Tap Turn On.
4. Choose between Password or 64-digit Encryption Key.
5. Setup a password and tap Next.
6. Tap Create.

WhatsApp needs some time to transition to encrypted backups.

#security #whatsapp #iphone

🔋 DevCheck Hardware and System Info

DevCheck gives you all the information you need about your hardware and operating system in a clear, accurate and organized way.

DevCheck provides the most detailed CPU and System-on-a-chip (SOC) info available. See specifications for Bluetooth, GPU, RAM, storage and other hardware in your phone or tablet. Find all the details about your WiFi and mobile networks, including dual SIM info. Get real time sensor data. Learn about your phone's operating system and architecture, including codename, brand, manufacturer, bootloader, radio, serial number, device id Android version, security patch level and kernel.

DevCheck also displays the most advanced camera specifications, including sensor size, pixel size, aperture, focal length, ISO range, RAW capability, face detection, 35mm equivalents and more.

DevCheck provides real-time info about your battery status, temperature, level, technology, health, voltage, current and capacity.

Try and use it!

#app #android

🕶️ Decentraleyes

Decentraleyes protects you against tracking through "free", centralized, content delivery.
It prevents a lot of requests from reaching networks like Google Hosted Libraries, and serves local files to keep sites from breaking.

Websites have increasingly begun to rely much more on large third-parties for content delivery. Canceling requests for ads or trackers is usually without issue, however blocking actual content, not unexpectedly, breaks pages. The aim of this add-on is to cut out the middleman by providing lightning speed delivery of local (bundled) files to improve online privacy.

Main Features:

* Protects privacy by evading large delivery networks that claim to offer free services.
* Complements regular blockers such as uBlock Origin, Adblock Plus, et al.
* Works directly out of the box; absolutely no prior configuration required.

#addon #chrome #firefox

🔐 CanvasBlocker

This extension protects user privacy by prevents the HTML canvas element from being used by malicious scripts for fingerprinting the user. This extension adds a slight noise to the data generated by the canvas element when certain methods are being called. This way the canvas element cannot be used for fingerprinting purposes. Compared to other similar extensions, this one is lighter and uses a more effective method to block fingerprinting from all frame elements (top and subframes).

Main Features:

* Fingerprint defender with as minimum footprint as possible.
* Block or disable fingerprint on certain hostnames.
* Notify when the canvas fingerprint is detected.
* Disable notification for a few hostnames or for all hostnames.
* Works on cross-origin (CORS) and sandboxed iframes (like Disqus and Hangouts).

#addon #chrome #firefox #privacy

​​🔑 Universal Text Encryption Tool

Paranoia Text Encryption keeps your notes, cryptocurrency keys (seeds, mnemonics), emails, social networking posts, and any other text safe from snoopers, hackers, and prying eyes.

The app provides real security as data is encrypted using strong encryption algorithms such as Blowfish 448bit, AES 256bit, RC6 256bit, Serpent 256bit, Twofish 256bit, GOST 256bit.

How to use it:

1. Copy and paste data from your applications.
2. Save it to a file for later use.
3. Profit!

Fully compatible with Paranoia Text Encryptor for Android and Paranoia Text Encryption for iOS.

It's completely free and open source, provides cross-platform desktop versions (Windows, Linux, macOS).

#privacy #security #windows #linux #mac

👻 PassBrow

PassBrow is an extension designed to maintain user privacy through a default password to lock the browser.

PassBrow blocks access to your browser, allowing no access to browser data, bookmarks, settings, internet, etc.
It is very simple to use, just access the extension options and register a new password. After that, you can lock Chrome by reopening the browser, clicking the Lock pop-up button, pressing the shortcut key ctrl+shift+9 or cmd+shift+9, typing 'pb lock' in the address bar, or accessing the Lock Browser option from the menu of context.
To unlock you can simply enter your password.

PassBrow works not only with Chrome, but also with other browsers, e.g. Opera, Firefox, Brave.

#addon #chrome #firefox #opera

🎵 Retro Music Player

Retro Music player is one of the best Material design offline music player for Android.

Main Features:

* 10+ now playing themes;
* Driving Mode;
* Headset/Bluetooth support;
* Music duration filter;
* Folder support - Play songs by folder;
* Gapless playback;
* Volume controls;
* Home screen widgets;
* Lock screen playback controls;
* Lyrics screen (download and sync with music);
* Sleep timer;
* Easy drag to sort playlist & play queue;
* Tag editor;
* Create, edit and import playlists;
* 30+ languages support.

Unfortunately, it don't support online music download or music streaming.

#app #android #music

Librefox Browser

Librefox aims at enforcing privacy and security of Firefox without forking the project.
Librefox uses more than 500 privacy/security/performance settings, patches, and a cleaned bundle of Firefox (updater, crashreporter and Firefox's integrated addons that don't respect privacy are removed).

Main Features:

* Updated browser: because this project is not a fork, it is kept updated with the latest Firefox version.
* Extensions firewall: limit internet access for extensions.
* User settings updates: gHacks/pyllyukko base is kept up to date.
* Librefox-addons: set of optional Librefox extensions
Statistics disabled: telemetry and similar functions are disabled
* Tor Librefox-addons: adapted Librefox extensions for TBB.
* Multi-platform (Windows/Linux/Mac).
* Dark theme (classic and advanced).
* Recommended and code reviewed addons list.
* Community-Driven.

#firefox #windows #mac #linux #privacy

​​⏱️ Transportr - Open Source Public Transit

Transportr is a Free Public Transport Assistant without Ads or Tracking developed by people around the world in their free time.

This app uses the data of various local public transport agencies and provides a unified interface for them.
It can not verify the correctness of the data and therefore offers no guarantees for the displayed information.

Main Features:

🛣️ Trip Routing. Just tell Transportr where you want to go!
It will find the best connections for you, advises you where to change buses,
and even gives you an estimated time of arrival.

⏱️ Live Departures. Shows upcoming departures from any and all stations.

🗽 Software Freedom. The source code for Transportr is 100% open. You can freely use, study, share and improve it. You can even add your city yourself, if it is not already supported.

🛰️ Finds your Position. Transportr uses GPS satellite navigation to keep track of your current position - so you never get lost.
You can find nearby stations to start a new trip
and then see how far along the journey you are.

🌟 Remembers Favorite Places. To get you where you need to go faster, Transportr saves frequently used locations and trips.

🚫 No Ads, No Tracking. This app does not display ads
or annoying notifications.
It also does not use tracking tools such as Google Analytics to spy on you.

🗺️ Beautiful Maps. Displays stations or your entire trip on a map and always knows where you are to not miss where to get off the bus.

#app #android

📖 xBrowserSync

Browser syncing as it should be: secure, anonymous and free! Sync bookmarks across your browsers and devices, no sign up required.

xBrowserSync is a completely free and open source tool for syncing your bookmarks and browser data between your desktop browsers. xBrowserSync respects your privacy and gives you complete anonymity — no sign up is required and no personal data is ever collected. It is also completely secure; your data is encrypted client-side with military grade encryption, Even if someone intercepted your data, only you can decrypt it.

With the xBrowserSync mobile app you can use xBrowserSync on the go with your Android device. Once you have created a new sync on your desktop browser using the web extension, simply scan your sync ID code into the app and enter your password to connect to your synced data.

Main Features:

★ Sync bookmarks between desktop browsers, and access bookmarks on the move using the xBrowserSync Android app.
★ Absolutely free, there are no charges for using the service.
★ Totally anonymous, no sign up or submission of personal data required, just install and sync.
★ Encrypts your browser data client-side using military grade encryption that only you can decrypt.
★ Browse, find, modify and share bookmarks quickly and easily.
★ Enrich your bookmarks with descriptions and tags.
★ Works with native desktop browser bookmarking features.
★ Add bookmarks with the mobile app by sharing from your favourite apps.
★ Share bookmarks with friends with the mobile app.
★ Back up and restore your synced data for total peace of mind.
★ Run your very own xBrowserSync cloud service for syncing in complete privacy.

#addon #app #chrome #firefox #privacy

🔑 Tofu Authenticator

Tofu is an easy-to-use, open-source two-factor authentication app designed specifically for iOS.

Tofu generates one-time passwords to help you protect your online accounts. These passwords are used together with your normal password when you sign into services like Google, Facebook, Dropbox, Amazon, and GitHub.

Tofu works with all services that provide two-factor authentication using the HOTP and TOTP algorithms. It does not require a network or cellular connection and can be used in airplane mode.

#app #iphone #security

​​🔑 Electrum

Electrum is a lightweight and open-source Bitcoin wallet.
It can be used on mobile, desktop or with the command line interface.

Main Features:

* Your private keys are encrypted and never leave your computer.
* Your funds can be recovered from a secret phrase.
* Electrum is fast, because it uses servers that index the Bitcoin blockchain.
* You can export your private keys and use them in other Bitcoin clients.
* Electrum servers are decentralized and redundant. Your wallet is never down.
* Electrum Wallet verifies all the transactions in your history using SPV.
* Keep your private keys offline, and go online with a watching-only wallet.
* Split the permission to spend your coins between several wallets.
* Electrum supports third-party plugins: Multisig services, Hardware wallets, etc.

#app #privacy #security