Category: Android

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Life After Likes: What Happens When the Internet Forgets You? 👻

Aight! You ever stop and think about it? We’re all proper obsessed with likes, shares, and making sure our latest holiday snap or random thought gets seen by absolutely everyone. It’s like we’re constantly yelling into the void, hoping someone out there clicks that little heart. But what happens, eh, when the internet, that massive beast we feed every day,… Read more →

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Doomscrolling Forever? How Our Phones Are Messing with Our Heads 😩

Alright, you ever just find yourself stuck, scrolling through your phone, eyes all glazed over, just soaking in all the rubbish news and negativity? Like, you know it’s making you feel a bit rubbish, but you just can’t seem to stop? Yeah, that’s doomscrolling, mate. And let me tell you, from a proper Gen X point of view, it’s a… Read more →

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Vertical TV & Cinema? Just Tilt Your Screen Lah! The Future’s Looking Narrow, Brah! 📱➡️📺

Alright, dude! You know how we’re all glued to our Android phones and iPhones, scrolling through endless vertical feeds of TikTok, Instagram Reels, and whatnot? Ever stop to think, “Hey, why can’t my TV or cinema screen be like this?” XAXAXA It sounds a bit bonkers at first, right? Just tilt your current TV sideways, sudah siap? But Lenovo’s already… Read more →

Rooting my HTC Hero Android Phone

Rooting Related Terms

⚠️ Recovery: Every Android device has a recovery through which the OS can install over-the-air updates. It is also used by the system whenever you factory reset a device. If you want to flash a custom ROM, you must replace the stock recovery with a custom one. ⚠️ Superuser/SuperSU: This application is automatically installed on the device during rooting. It… Read more →

MAC address spoofing

The device that you’re looking at right now has a network interface controller (NIC), the thing that’s responsible for allowing you to connect to a network, like an internet. All devices capable of networking (smartphones, laptops, routers) have one of these. Each NIC is assigned unique hard-coded MAC addresses that cannot be changed. However, almost all popular platforms such as… Read more →

Mobile Apps Tracking You?

What’s Wrong With Mobile Apps Tracking You? For some reason, there is a certainty that you have not even thought about such a question. Data about you is collected, which is often sensitive (depending on the insolence of the developers); Your data wastes Internet traffic and battery power; Finding out what data is leaking is impossible for the average user,… Read more →