🎶 ViMusic

ViMusic is an Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.

Key Features:

✔️ Search and play any song or video from YouTube Music;
✔️ Background playback w/ notification;
✔️ Search for songs, albums, artists, videos and playlists;
✔️ Bookmark artists and albums;
✔️ Import playlists;
✔️ Automatic cache system for offline playback and saving resources;
✔️ Fetch and edit lyrics and synchronized lyrics;
✔️ Open YouTube/YouTube Music links;
✔️ Local playlists management;
✔️ Queue management;
✔️ Favorites and Offline built-in playlists;
✔️ Sleep timer;
✔️ Skip silence;
✔️ Persistent queue;
✔️ Loudness/audio normalization;
✔️ Android Auto;
✔️ Simple and minimal UI;
✔️ Ridiculously lightweight APK.

#app #android #music

🌅 How to watch YouTube with friends at the same time

If you want to watch Youtube video with your friends from another city/country at the same time, use the Watch2Gether service. With its help, you can create private rooms for simultaneous video viewing through a single player.

How to use it:

1. You don't even need to register: on the website click on the "Create your Room" button, pick a nickname and click "Join the Room".
2. Copy and send the received link to friends to join the room.
3. Then you need to find the desired video through the search or insert its link into the line. The service supports videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, Netflix, as well as music from Deezer, Soundcloud and other services.
4. It is ready! You can watch the video together and chat in text, voice or audio chat. This way you can study, listen to music and watch movies together and remotely.

#service #lifehack

💻 The Art of Command Line

Learn the command line on one page.

This guide is the result of many authors and translators and created for both beginners and experienced users.

The goals:

✔️breadth (everything important);
✔️specificity (give concrete examples of the most common case);
✔️brevity (avoid things that aren't essential or digressions you can easily look up elsewhere).

Every tip is essential in some situation or significantly saves time over alternatives.
The focus is on interactive Bash, though many tips apply to other shells and to general Bash scripting.
It includes both "standard" Unix commands as well as ones that require special package installs -- so long as they are important enough to merit inclusion.

#useful #lifehack

📗 Audiobookshelf

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server.

Key Features:

✔️ Fully open-source, including the android & iOS app;
✔️ Stream all audio formats on the fly;
✔️ Search and add podcasts to download episodes w/ auto-download;
✔️ Multi-user support w/ custom permissions;
✔️ Keeps progress per user and syncs across devices;
✔️ Auto-detects library updates, no need to re-scan;
✔️ Upload books and podcasts w/ bulk upload drag and drop folders;
✔️ Backup your metadata + automated daily backups
Progressive Web App (PWA);
✔️ Chromecast support on the web app and android app
Fetch metadata and cover art from several sources;
✔️ Chapter editor and chapter lookup (using Audnexus API);
✔️ Merge your audio files into a single m4b;
✔️ Embed metadata and cover image into your audio files (using Tone);
✔️ Basic ebook support and e-reader.

#app #books

🎧 Pocket Casts - Podcast Player

Pocket Casts is powerful podcast platform. It helps to find your next obsession with podcast recommendations for easy discovery, and seamlessly enjoy your favorite shows without the hassle of subscribing.

Key Features:

✔️ Material design.
✔️ Works with Android Auto, Chromecast, Alexa and Sonos.
✔️ Up next: Automatically build a playback queue from your favorite shows. Sign in and have that Up Next queue sync to all your devices.
✔️ Trim silence: Cut silences from episodes so you finish them faster, saving hours.
✔️ Variable speed: Change the play speed from anywhere between 0.5 to 3x.
✔️ Volume boost: Increase the volume of voices, while decreasing background noise.
✔️ Stream: Play episodes on the fly.
✔️ Chapters: Jump between chapters easily, and enjoy embedded artwork that the author has added (support MP3 and M4A chapter formats).
✔️ Audio & video: Play all of your favorite episodes, toggle video to audio.
✔️ Skip playback: Skip episode intros, jump through episodes with custom skip intervals.
✔️ Sync: Subscriptions, Up Next, listening history, playback and filters are all securely stored in the cloud.
✔️ Auto download: Automatically download episodes for offline playback.
✔️ Filters: Custom filters will organize your episodes.
✔️ Storage: All the tools you need to keep your podcasts tamed.
✔️ Discover: Subscribe to any podcast in iTunes and more. Browse by charts, networks and categories.

#app #android #podcast

🔐 TunnlTo

TunnlTo is a lightweight, fast, Windows WireGuard VPN client built for split tunneling.

TunnlTo is a tool for controlling which Windows applications, processes, and IP addresses can use a WireGuard VPN tunnel.

Example use cases:

✔️ Route only FireFox through a privacy VPN;
✔️ Route Slack and Microsoft Office through a work VPN;
✔️ Route a game through a gaming VPN;
✔️ Stop a game from routing through a privacy VPN;
✔️ Stop a browser from routing through a work VPN;
✔️ Route a specific IP address range through a privacy VPN;
✔️Route all traffic through a privacy VPN except a specific IP address range.

#app #windows #privacy

​​🎬 How to find out what clothes the characters of your favorite TV series wear

If you are watching the series and you liked the characters' clothes, the "Worn on TV" service will show you what things the characters are wearing, as well as where you can buy them or find cheaper analogues.

How to do it:

1. Visit the website: you can immediately enter the desired show into the search, and on the main page there are outfits from new series.
2. If you scroll down, you will see a large list of all the series available on the service.
3. Open the show tab and select a character. There are all the clothes that the hero wears in the series.
4. In each image, links to similar clothes or even the original are available. The library of the service has been regularly adding clothes from movies for seven years, so you will definitely find what you were looking for.

#service #lifehack

🔒 Cryptomator

Cryptomator offers multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud.

Key Features:

✔️ Works with Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, MEGA, pCloud, ownCloud, Nextcloud and any other cloud storage service which synchronizes with a local directory;
✔️ Open Source: No backdoors, control is better than trust;
✔️ Client-side: No accounts, no data shared with any online service;
✔️ Totally transparent: Just work on the virtual drive as if it were a USB flash drive;
✔️ AES encryption with 256-bit key length;
✔️ File names get encrypted;
✔️ Folder structure gets obfuscated;
✔️ Use as many vaults in your Dropbox as you want, each having individual passwords;
✔️ 256-bit keys (unlimited strength policy bundled with native binaries);
✔️ Scrypt key derivation;
✔️ Cryptographically secure random numbers for salts, IVs and the masterkey of course;
✔️ Sensitive data is wiped from the heap asap;
✔️ Lightweight.

#app #security #android #iphone #windows #mac #linux

WireGuard Easy

The easiest way to run WireGuard VPN + Web-based Admin UI.

Key Features:

✔️ All-in-one: WireGuard + Web UI.
✔️ Easy installation, simple to use.
✔️ List, create, edit, delete, enable & disable clients.
✔️ Show a client's QR code.
✔️ Download a client's configuration file.
✔️ Statistics for which clients are connected.
✔️ Tx/Rx charts for each connected client.
✔️ Gravatar support.

Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/weejewel/wg-easy

#app #security #android #iphone #windows #mac #linux

​​SingularGPT

SingularGPT is an open source project that automates your device using ChatGPT & GPT-4.
With 🚀 SingularGPT you can easily instruct your device with simple text based queries.

For example:

Let's say you need to click on button that have a text as 'File' just say it:
Query: Hey, please click on the item with text File.

🔻 SingularGPT will perform the action by processing your query, turning them to its understandable instructions and execute them.

#app #ai #gpt

​​VideoCrafter：A Toolkit for Text-to-Video Generation and Editing

VideoCrafter is an open-source video generation and editing toolbox for crafting video content.
It currently includes the following 3 types of models:

1. Base T2V: Generic Text-to-video Generation
It is based on the latent video diffusion models (LVDM). It can synthesize realistic videos based on the input text descriptions.

2. VideoLoRA: Personalized Text-to-Video Generation with LoRA
By providing a sentence describing the video content along with a LoRA trigger word (specified during LoRA training), it can generate videos with the desired style(or subject/concept).

3. VideoControl: Video Generation with More Condition Controls
By pluging a lightweight adapter module to the T2V model, you can get obtained generation results with more detailed control signals such as depth.

#app #video #ai #gpt

​​AI Code Translator

Use AI to translate code from one language to another.

https://github.com/mckaywrigley/ai-code-translator

Demo: https://ai-code-translator.vercel.app/

#service #ai #gpt

​​Storrent

Storrent is a BitTorrent implementation that is optimised for streaming media: it allows you to watch a movie or to listen to music from a Torrent without downloading it entirely.

Storrent works entirely in RAM: except for the DHT bootstrap database, it will never write anything to disk. It requires a fair amount of memory (1GB will do, 4GB is better).

#app #github #linux

A neural network creates pictures based on text descriptions

If you are surfing the Internet again in search of a unique picture, it's worth looking at the possibilities of neural networks.

Artificial intelligence Dream by Wombo will turn your idea into a work of art based on the text description and chosen style.

There are different generation styles to choose from.

Try it!

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Log out of your online accounts

If you temporarily decide to let other people use your 💻, you should take care that they cannot log into your accounts. The most logical thing to do would be to manually log into each platform and disable it, but that would take a lot of time.

You can simplify the task with Logify. It allows you to log out of all services and some of them.

✅ Click on "Custom Logout".

✅ Select the platforms of interest and click on "Logout".

Save and use it!

#service #security

How to download stock images without watermarks

Watermarks are usually used on photo stocks so that users pay for the material. Therefore, you can download an image without a watermark by purchasing a subscription. But you can use the following site and download images for free.

Downloader.la is a service for downloading images from the best photo stocks without watermarks. Here you can also find and download a huge number of videos, vector images and music. It is even possible to download content from various social networks: Youtube, Facebook, Instagram. Easy, fast and free!

So, open the site, scroll below, select the desired source, insert a request or link to the file you are looking for and download. There is also an extension for Google Chrome, with which everything loads in a couple of seconds.

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Generative AI for Krita

Generate images from within Krita with minimal fuss: Select an area, push a button, and new content that matches your image will be generated. Or expand your canvas and fill new areas with generated content that blends right in. Text prompts are optional. No tweaking required!

This plugin seeks to provide what "Generative Fill/Expand" do in Photoshop - and go beyond. Adjust strength to refine existing content (img2img) or generate images from scratch. Powerful customization is available for advanced users.

Features are designed to fit an interactive workflow where AI generation is used as just another tool while painting. They are meant to synergize with traditional tools and the layer stack.

Local. Open source. Free.

#app #windows #mac #linux

HyperOS Updater

HyperOS Updater is an app for Xiaomi, Redmi, and POCO devices that lets you find out the latest available software version for your smartphone. It also informs you whether or not your device will receive the Android update with HyperOS, the customization layer that replaces MIUI.

HyperOS Updater automatically detects which smartphone you have, as well as its codename. Then it checks your operating system version and installed MIUI or HyperOS against the latest one available. It also informs you if your device is on the list of those that will receive future updates from Xiaomi.

#android #app

Keep Alive

Keep Alive will send a custom message via SMS to one or more people if you haven't used your device in a given period of time. Intended to be used as a failsafe for those living alone in case of an accident or other emergency. Once the settings are configured, no further interaction is required.

Features:
✔️100% Device-based, no cloud services or accounts required;
✔️Free with no ads or trackers;
✔️Minimal Battery Usage;
✔️Multiple SMS Recipients;
✔️Custom Alert Messages;
✔️Optional: Include Location Information in SMS;
✔️Optional: Place a phone call with speakerphone enabled

#app #security #android