How to stream your pictures and videos to any browser from your Android device

Posted by Raffael on 04/28/201304/28/2013 Posted in News & Apps Tagged Android, show android photos wireless on pc, sony mobile communications, stream from android to browser, stream video and picture from android to tv, vscreens

Now that’s success! I have just tested the vscreens app for Android and am really excited. But first things first.
vscreens is a free app from Sony Mobile Communications. But kindly runs on any device with Android (version 2.1 or newer needed) and not only on the Sony devices. With vscreens images and videos can be quickly streamed from your smartphone, simply and wireless, to any device that has a browser and an internet connection.
For this purpose, you have just to surf to www.vscreens.com, open the vscreens app on your Android device and scan the QR code on the target device. Then you select those pictures and videos from your smartphone you want to stream and they’ll appear directly on the target device. If the target device and smartphone are in the same Wifi network that’s going to be really fast. (But it will also work with your mobile internet connection.)
Those […]

How to retrieve default browsers path in C#

Posted by Raffael on 04/28/2013 Posted in C#.Net Tagged C#, c# get default browser, c# get default browsers path, default browser, open url in c#, open url in default browser c#

csharp_standard_browser Below it will be about how to find the path to the default browser on Windows systems with help of C#. This makes sense, if you want to open a file using Process.Start () in the default browser.
Although one might assume that every Windows user has installed Internet Explorer and you should therefore simply use this to view files, but it does not necessarily increase the confidence of the user into the own application. So at least I, as a user, would be annoyed of my program, if this would always launch Internet Explorer instead of Firefox, which I have set as the default browser.
Now there are two ways to open the default browser in C #. Both have their advantages and disadvantages.
Option 1 – Process.Start() with an URL
The easiest […]

How to play N64 games on Android

Posted by Raffael on 04/27/2013 Posted in News & Apps, Tutorials Tagged Android, android n64, android n64 emulator apk, emulator, how to play zelda on android, N64, n64 emulator for android, Nintendo64, play n64 games on android, play super mario on android

Are you one of those people who used to (or still do) spend hours, sitting in front of a game console? I for one was never the hardcore gamer and have only owned one console, but I loved my N64.
When I moved, I found some of my old N64 games and felt the need to once again play Super Mario World. Unfortunately it stayed with the discovery of the games. My N64 itself is gone without a trace.
Then last week I stumbled “accidentally” on a N64 emulator for Android. It’s called n64oid and is apparently a bit longer on the market. But to me it passed so far.
Anyway, I got spend the $4.99 and have thrown me n64oid on my Samsung Galaxy S2. And what can I say? I’m excited!
Although it runs not all of the roms I […]

Pixlr-o-matic – the Instagram for PC

Posted by Raffael on 04/22/201304/22/2013 Posted in Web Tips Tagged instagram, instagram for mac, instagram for pc, instagram for windows, Pixlr-o-matic

I’m sure everybody knows or at least has heard about Instragram. The most famous app to give your photos some nice effects. However, anyone who has not a smartphone or tablet, or rather prefers to edit his pictures on the PC, should have a look at pixlr-o-matic. The only requirement is a browser with Flash support, but that should indeed be easier and cheaper to procure than a smartphone or tablet. ;)
So you can imagine how the whole thing works, I made you some screenshots. Let’s go!

This image serves as sample picture. (If one wants to know where it’s been – it’s at my grandpa’s house.)

By clicking “Upload” you go.

In the first step, you can […]

How to use Ubuntu software center on Linux Mint

Posted by Raffael on 04/21/201302/09/2017 Posted in Linux, Linux Mint, Tutorials Tagged alacarte, Linux Mint, linux mint ubuntu software center, ubuntu, ubuntu software center on linux mint

Linux Mint itself is well and good, but the included software management is admittedly not quite my thing. I personally think it’s quite sluggish (long loading times) and also eye candy looks different. Concerning the software center Ubuntu has done a far better job. And that’s why I want to show you today, how to get Ubuntu’s software center running up on Linux Mint.
In the first step the software center must be installed with the following shell command.

sudo apt-get install software-center

Then a python script must be created. Therefore you copy an existing script and edit it. See the following shell commands to get to know what exactly is going on.

sudo cp -r /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro/Ubuntu.py /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro/LinuxMint.py

In this script, you need to edit some lines. So replace

class Ubuntu(Debian)

with

class LinuxMint(Debian)

For this purpose, just open the file with the following command:

gksudo gedit /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro/LinuxMint.py

(Within […]