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  • Select Select the best GUI toolkit – And we have a winner !

    Select Select the best GUI toolkit – And we have a winner !

    After trying seven frameworks, I finally came across the most useful of them all.

  • Scrobbling from Shazam on Android via Tasker (…and PHP)

    Scrobbling from Shazam on Android via Tasker (…and PHP)

    Usually I rely for scrobbling my musical listenings on my Android Phone that the Player Apps have its own scrobbling capabality built-in. And for the songs you don’t have on it, you can use music recognizers like Shazam. But how can you send your shazamed songs to Last.FM ?

  • Select the best GUI toolkit – part 7: pyQt

    Select the best GUI toolkit – part 7: pyQt

    And finally we reach the end… that is the last of the GUI framework I decided to experiment… pyQt. PyQt was developed by the Qt Company and is the base for the KDE, one of the desktop environments used by Linux

  • Recuperando um MacBook Intel parado instalando o Ubuntu

    Recuperando um MacBook Intel parado instalando o Ubuntu

    Este artigo explica, passo a passo, todas as instruções necessárias para instalar e corrigir uma instalação do Ubuntu, da versão 16 para cima, num macbook com CPU baseado em Intel.

  • Select the best GUI toolkit – part 6: wxWidgets

    Select the best GUI toolkit – part 6: wxWidgets

    In this sixth part, we’ll be abording wxWidgets (which was called wxWindows in the past). Originally intended for programming in C++, it knows several wrappers, like WxPython, which we’ll be discussing here and several others, like wxNode, wxsqlite3, etc.

  • Enable Paste in Android TV Box

    Enable Paste in Android TV Box

    If you’re the lucky owner of an Android TV Box, like me, provided by your ISP and discovered the only way to input long URLs is using the nifty GBoard virtual keyboard which have voice input in its features, and received also a wonderful remote controller just with the arrow keys, volume control, and keys……

  • Select the best GUI toolkit – part 5: Java Swing

    Select the best GUI toolkit – part 5: Java Swing

    NOTE: this the fifth part of a series. The previous article was about .NET Windows Forms. You can find the article here. Java Swing is one of the oldest GUI toolkits made by SUN, the creator of the language (the first was AWT) and had vast acknowledgment at the time. Another frameworks followed, like SWT……

  • Selecting the best GUI toolkit – part 4: Windows Forms

    Selecting the best GUI toolkit – part 4: Windows Forms

    NOTE: this the fourth part of a series. The previous article was about AutoHotkey. You can find the article here. Windows Forms is a GUI programming framework developed by Microsoft for building Windows desktop applications. It provides a set of pre-built controls that developers can use to create user interfaces for their applications. It was……

  • Selecting the best GUI programming toolkit – part 3: AutoHotkey

    Selecting the best GUI programming toolkit – part 3: AutoHotkey

    This is the third article of a series titled Selecting the best GUI programming toolkit . The latter article was about Tkinter embedded in PySimpleGUI. AutoHotkey is Scripting language to define shortcut keys for the most diverse applications under Windows, but its creators developers expanded the applications far beyond that – for the creation of……

  • Como configurar um teclado PC português para uso num mac

    Como configurar um teclado PC português para uso num mac

    Este post vai ser escrito em português, visto que a audiência vai ser precisamente os utilizadores portugueses. Num post da semana passada, escrito em inglês, dei conta das minhas dificuldades para configurar um teclado para PC para uso com um mac mini, correndo o Mac Os Ventura, e propus o uso do software HammerSpoon para……