Library Mannheim – Wednesday, 19. Oktober 2022, 5pm to 6:30pm (17:00 – 18:30 Uhr) Surveillance capitalism is omnipresent. Facebook, Google and others collect data that tell us who we are, what our habits are, what we want and dream of. This intimate knowledge about us only serves to sell us more products and let us consume more than we need and our environment can bear. Arvid Ortwig wants to show ways to tame the smartphone without sacrificing comfort. Speaker Info: Arvid Ortwig has been an IT professional for over 20 years and works as an IT manager in a medium-sized...
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Application Launcher “ULauncher”
If you are familiar with MacOS you probably have come across the “Spotlight” search or even its more powerful siblings Alfred or Raycast. All of them provide search-functionality and launch applications through a little searchbar that pops up once you press a shortcut. Usually Ctrl+Space oder Command+Space. The tool “Ulauncher” is similar to Raycast with the option to launch applications, search for files, open websites with shortcuts or even extend its functionality with extensions. For example search bitwarden for passwords, paste text-snippets (I am prefering Autokey though) start VMs or a Remmina-Session. I can highly recommend that app and hope...
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