Device shots – making shell screenshots online, supporting multi brand mobile phones, tablets, computers, TVs, monitors, smart watches

Device shots is an online tool for making screenshots with shells. You just need to drag the screenshots onto the web page. It supports multi brand mobile phones, tablets, computers, TVs, monitors, smart watches and other devices.

Screenshots with shells can make them look more specific, but in fact, they are mainly more beautiful.

Sesame Dictionary-A modern Chinese dictionary that supports the display of stroke order [iPhone / iPad]

Sesame Dictionary is a modern Chinese dictionary for iPhone and iPad that collects all Chinese standard Chinese characters. It can query basic interpretation, example sentences, traditional Chinese, radicals and other Chinese characters. It supports offline use and can also show the stroke order with animation. @NickYam

Photomizer 2 Pro – automatic photo repair tool [Windows] [$ 59.99 → 0]

Photomizer Pro  is an image processing software, which can make you modify a satisfactory picture through operations such as color adjustment and light repair. You can also add noise to create the feeling of old photos. Of course, you can also give photos a new feeling. @NickYam

Coolmuster Android Assistant – Android device assistant [Windows] [$ 35.95 → 0]

Coolmuster Android Assistant  is an assistant software for Android devices. It can conveniently help you to backup and restore data. It supports the transmission of many different files. You can also send and receive SMS messages on Android devices on your computer. @NickYam

Batch WORD to PDF Converter Pro – Convert Word to PDF [Windows] [$ 29.95 → 0]

Batch WORD to PDF Converter Pro  is a tool that can help you convert Word documents to PDF documents in batches. It also supports the conversion of Excel, PPT, rich text, and text documents to PDF. The focus is on batch conversion efficiency. @NickYam

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery – Photo recovery and restoration software [Windows, macOS] [$ 11.99 → 0]

Stellar Phoenix Photo Recovery  is a photo recovery software that allows you to recover photos of many different formats from different media easily , no matter how lost photos can be easily restored through it. @NickYam

Audio Split & Trim – Audio editing tool [Windows, macOS] [$ 19.99 → 0]

Audio Split & Trim is a tool that can split a piece of audio into two or more pieces. Of course, it can also merge multiple different audio files into one audio file, supporting multiple different audio formats. @NickYam

FlashBoot – USB flash drive creation tool [$ 29.95 → 0]

FlashBoot is a USB flash drive creation tool, with a high degree of customization, compatible with all USB disks and BIOS. Even if you do not use DOS can also use PE, the production steps are very simple. @NickYam

NTFSTool-A free software that provides NTFS read and write support for Apple computers

NTFS Tool is a pure version of NTFS tool that supports NTFS disk read-write, mount, launch, management and other functions. Its interface is simple and easy to use. I hope this tool will bring convenience to your work and life. @NickYam

By default, the macOS system only allows reading files in the NTFS disk format, and requires command line or third-party software support to write, which is a little troublesome.

Dagon App-Web bookmarks, support snapshots, save images, iCloud synchronization and Pinboard [iPhone / iPad limited free]

Dagon App is a web bookmarking application that supports iPhone and iPad. Just share the content with it, support tag classification management, snapshots, Spotlight search, save Instagram pictures. You can use iCloud to synchronize data, and it also supports Pinboard account, currently free. @NickYam

First of all, you only need to share to the Dagon App through the share button of the iOS system, and then add a label, you can choose whether to save the picture. The function of saving pictures is also applicable to Instagram, which is great.

Motick - A customizable and simple flip clock [iPhone]

Motick is a beautiful iPhone clock application, with a simple design style, customizable clock, vertical screen and horizontal screen support, let those old devices to play. In addition, the developer provided endurance data for common old devices. @NickYam

Didi Wuhan restart car-hailing tomorrow

Didi today announced that according to the deployment of Wuhan Municipal Transportation Bureau, Didi.com, which has been suspended for nearly 100 days due to the epidemic, will resume operations in Wuhan on April 30.

Didi said: "We will strictly work in accordance with the unified requirements of the Wuhan Municipal Epidemic Prevention Headquarters and other departments to protect safe travel."

BgEraser-Remove the image background intelligently Based on AI technology

BgEraser is an AI-based automatic and intelligent image background removal tool. There is no need to check the available and deleteable areas. Just upload the image, and download the completed image immediately. @NickYam

Prior to this, for example, a very useful online background removal service remove.bg , it is required that the user manually marks which needs to be retained and which should be removed before the background can be removed.

Pinduoduo Inc : 2020 Letter to Shareholders

What time? 

In February, the world learned a new word, “COVID-19”, which upended our lives. As I write this, half of the world remains confined at home, waiting for the tiny virus that causes COVID-19 to leave us. During the early days of the outbreak, as we waited in solidarity, we eagerly hoped to return to normal. But as the world has been put on hold week after week, we start to forget time.

We cannot help but ask ourselves, what is the time we are in now and what is time?

We are in a time of crisis – of division, misinformation, and chaos. The virus has caused countless conflicts and contrasts as we watch the news around us and worldwide. It is an unprecedented time to most of us. Yet if we put it in the context of the human history, it might just be a normal incident, a drop in the ocean.

How to stop iCloud from syncing a folder

At this time, you only need to rename the folder you do not want to synchronize, and add a ".nosync" to the file name . As shown below, we call this thing a flag to tell iCloud not to touch this folder and its sub-files.

The folder marked will show that iCloud is unavailable, which is exactly what we want. If you want to synchronize it again, just delete ".nosync".

IKnowWhatYouDownload

IKnowWhatYouDownload is a website that knows what you have downloaded. It retrieves the IP information of the BT network to track the download content. In addition to knowing what you have downloaded, you can also count information such as the resource status of the seed. @NickYam

The information on this site is a bit huge, and there is a daily Torrents download information ranking by region, so you can understand what is in the data stream that accounts for a large proportion of the Internet.

image-picker-Extract images from web pages that cannot be saved by right-clicking [Chrome]

image-picker is a simple Chrome extension that can extract images from web pages with one click, including background images, thus avoiding the embarrassment that many images cannot be saved by right-clicking. @NickYam

In fact, it is not embarrassing. NickYam often needs to download the pictures in the App Store, but when you right-click the picture, it cannot be saved directly. Instead, I can only open the developer tools, extract the image address from the code, and then download it.

Size.link-just a browser, use AR to create a virtual box, you can check the actual size of the product before shopping

Size.link may be the simplest, easy-to-use, and practical AR product that NickYam has seen. It uses AR to create a custom-sized box that can be placed in the room, so that users can view it before shopping The actual size of the product at home. @NickYam

Open Size.link , enter the length, width and height you want, and then click View in your space . According to the prompt, you can see the AR real scene.

Smart upscaler-Icons8 has released a great free AI image enlargement tool

Smart upscaler is a new tool released by the well-known free chart library Icons8. It is a free Ai image enlargement tool. You only need to drag and upload to get an image with a magnification of up to 4 times. It has been tested with excellent results. @NickYam

Simple Screen Shade – Screen light and dark adjustment tool [macOS]

Simple Screen Shade is a tool that can adjust the brightness of the screen, supports up to 4 monitors, you can also set different color screen masks, use different colors in different occasions. There are also some built-in presets in the software that allow you to switch quickly.

Franzis HDR Projects 4-Picture effects plug-in [Windows, macOS] [$ 69 → 0]

Franzis HDR Projects 4  is an image post-editing software. this is magic. Start with complete light information. Once you have seen HDR images, normal images will just seem boring. HDR projects 4 enables you to generate very precise lighting situations that are not possible with “normal” photography or photo editing. The newest process for super realistic images with unbeatable contrast and detail that you have never seen before!

Tencent Open Sources COVID-19 Self-triage Assistant

To help people carry out a self-check about any potential coronavirus infection , thus reducing the risk of cross infection caused by panic and seeking medical care inappropriately, Tencent Health has built a COVID-19 self-triage assistant with AI technology for people around the world. By translating professional medical guidance into easy-to-understand messages, this tool was designed to help the public fight the pandemic with knowledge and skills. Since its launch, the tool has already helped 40 disease control and prevention centers, more than 300 hospitals, over 30 independent software vendor partners across 17 provinces in China and served tens of millions of people. Tencent is now open-sourcing the COVID-19 self-triage assistant

AceThinker PDF Converter Pro – PDF document conversion tool [Windows, macOS] [$ 69.95 → 0]

AceThinker PDF Converter Pro  is a PDF document conversion tool that supports batch conversion to Word, Excel, PPT, pictures and other formats, with OCR function, can help you identify the text in the picture and save.

iMobie AnyTrans – iOS device management software [Windows, macOS] [$ 39.99 → 0]

iMobie AnyTrans is a tool that can manage iPad, iPod, iPhone, through which you can transfer music, movies, applications and other files to any iOS device, you can also clone data from the old iOS device to the new iOS with one click In the device. This gift is a 90-day version, which can only be downloaded from the acquisition page.

Virtual Mix Studio Pro – Virtual Mix Studio [macOS] [￥ 198 → 0]

Virtual Mix Studio Pro is a music mixing tool that allows you to easily create original soundtracks. Use the different tools inside to add drums, vocals, percussion and effects, etc. Use your imagination to create your own Unique music.

Multiple Face Morpher – Photo Face Changer [macOS] [$ 19.95 → 0]

Multiple Face Morpher is a photo face changing tool that can help you easily convert one person's face to another person's face for synthesis. It is convenient to use, but don't use it for bad things.

Chinese Embassy Sri Lanka twitter account suspended

“This is double standards. There is so-called freedom of media, but on the other hand, they suspend and lock any account that is not on their agenda,” a Chinese Embassy spokesperson said.

The official twitter account of the Chinese Embassy in Sri Lanka @ChinaEmbSL has been suspended.

Get Lordicon dynamic icon library for free [Web]

The year is 2020 – we’ve got self-driving cars, robots that clean, and drones that deliver packages. It’s basically The Jetsons.

But your website’s lackluster designs and flat icons make your business look like it’s stuck in the town of Bedrock.

If you want to stay ahead of the times — and the competition, you need designs that stand out and create a pleasing aesthetic for your brand.

Ask MathStudio – Natural Language Calculator [iOS] -free now

Ask MathStudio gives you instant answers to your math questions using natural language on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch! Ask everything from basic math to college calculus to everyday questions like the weather. See some of the examples below to see what you can do with Ask MathStudio!

Leawo Music Recorder – audio recording software [Windows, macOS] [$ 29.99 → 0]

Leawo Music Recorder  is an audio recording platform software that can record the sound you hear on the network, and can also record the sound inside the computer. There is an editor in the software, which supports the synthesis of multiple audio tracks. At the same time, it is also a powerful music library software that can help you manage music files in your computer, intelligently download covers, add tags and more. @NickYam

Image Plus - Easy Photo Editor[macOS]

Image Plus  is an image editing tool with multiple adjustment functions. It can also help you add watermarks to images, change transparency, change image formats, and so on.

Sync Sofa – Couples from different places watch videos[Chrome]

Sync Sofa is a Chrome / Edge browser plug-in under development and testing. It allows two computers to play simultaneously and pause to fast-forward the same video, so that couples from different places can sync streaming video in a fast, simple and stable way and watch videos simultaneously. @NickYam

COVID-19: the original human virus genome were found in patients from the US and Australia

Researchers from Cambridge, UK, and Germany have reconstructed the early “evolutionary paths” of COVID-19 in humans – using genetic network techniques.

A-type viruses, the “original human virus genome” were found in patients from the US and Australia，not China.

SyncBird Pro – File transfer tool for iOS devices [macOS] [$ 39.99 → 0]

SyncBird Pro is a file transfer tool for iOS devices, which allows you to manage the transfer of files in iOS devices without using iTunes. You can also back up, clean up, and export devices. During the outbreak, they gave away a home version, which can be used on three devices.

PhantomPDF Online – Web PDF document editor [Web]

PhantomPDF Online is an online PDF document editor produced by Foxit. It supports text editing, page annotation, page change, page sorting, page adjustment, format conversion, etc., which is similar to the desktop version of the software. It is currently free to use until the end of September after registration.

Photolemur 3 – automatic image retouching tool [Windows, macOS] [$ 35 → 0]

Photolemur 3  is an automatic image retouching tool that supports a large number of camera image original formats. It can automatically perform color restoration, automatic exposure, sky enhancement, JPG correction, dehaze, etc., allowing you more time to take pictures.

Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment

Ma Yun Foundation invited many clinicians who participate in the treatment of new coronavirus and spent a week writing a Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment for hospitals, doctors and nurses.

Most of the hospitals in the world are facing challenges. We especially hope to share these practical experiences with hospitals and medical staff around the world ASAP. So please download, print, or forward them to your nearby hospitals and medical staff so that they can be ready.

How to prevent the spread of COVID-19 when staying home

1. Will open windows increase the chance of infection?

   Actually, good vatilation helps to reduce the amount of viruses that may exist in doors and helps to renew the indoor air. ‘Diluted’ outdoor air is almost impossible to bring viruses indoors.

   If your family members are suspected acute respiratory infection patients, open the window but keep the door closed during ventilation. Do not use central ventilation system to avoid the air in the sick people’s room entering the clean areas.

Recommendations for pregnant women during the epidemic of Covid-19

1. Precautions in pregnancy check-ups

During the epidemic, pregnant moms need to note the following things when going for pregnancy check-ups:

How to care for children during the epidemic ?

1. how to protect your children when going out

Don’t go out if possible, that is the best way to protect your children.

• If have to, drive private car or take a taxi, and use public transportation less frequently such as buses and  subways where people are crowed. Walking is the best way for nearby destinations.

Differences between COVID-19 and influenza

1. Key symptoms of COVID-19: Shortness of breath, breathing difficulties.

The early symptoms of COVID-19 is similar with that of flu. Therefore, it is really difficult to tell the difference between the two diseases only by symptoms such as fever, headache, muscle weakness and general discomfort. Most COVID-19 Patients have lower respiratory infection symptoms such as breathing difficulties, etc. You should be alert if you find yourself "having a cold" with symptoms of breathing difficulties and shortness of breath.

Would you get infected by taking an elevator?

Elevator is a closed and narrow space. Sharing one elevator with a virus carrier, you may get infected through his/her droplets spread by coughs, sneezes, and speeches.

If Droplets fall on buttons or walls, the virus can be spread to other persons by contact. They may be infected by touching their mouth, nose or eyes before washing their hands.

What needs to be done during home isolation period

1. Stay in a specific room alone that satisfies the following conditions:

• Good ventilation: make sure there is at least one window in the room. It would be better if the window is the air outlet of the whole house, which can protect the other areas of your house from polluted air.
• A separated restroom

Hidden Bar – hides the application icons that are not commonly used in the macOS menu bar, replacing Bartender 3

I have always disliked the messy Menu icons. I used Bartender to manage them before. But after upgrading macOS Catalina, it asked me for "full screen recording" permission, so it was deleted ... Today, I found a super useful alternative Hidden Bar.@NickYam
Hidden Bar is an open source macOS tool to help you hide those application icons not commonly used on the macOS menu bar.

Add a Google Adsense ad to the Hexo blog maupassant theme

My hexo blog address:www.nickyam.com

Since the Github Page was settled, for a long time it has been a minimalist and somewhat artistic fexo theme, not a famous next theme. Then I stumbled upon the Hexo blog that fits my aesthetic.maupassant The theme, ready to operate, but the motivation to update the blog is not enough. At the beginning of the new year, I finally decided to introduce Google Adsense to make my blog look mainstream. It would be better if I could make some pocket money by the way. The default readers of this article have already registered their Adsense accounts. Just share the specific setup steps below, so that you can check them later.

File Destructor-Generate error files of doc / xls / ppt / pdf / txt / zip

File Destructor is an online service that allows users to randomly generate error files of a specified size and type which cannot be opened. @NickYam

Want to play games on your Playstation but got a deadline for an exam or report that didn’t match your gaming ambitions?

Then you have come to the right place.

Send trashed files and blame your faulty computer, instead of confessing that you are a lazy bum who just wants to play videogames.

HiddenMe - Hide your desktop icons with a single click

Thanks to HiddenMe, I now have a clean desktop anytime I want. To see my folders, I simply click on the HiddenMe icon in the menu bar and everthing reappears on my desktop. Very functional and easy to use. @NickYam

Web Server for Chrome，serves web pages from a local folder over the network, using HTTP. Runs offline.

Web Server for Chrome is an open source (MIT) HTTP server for Chrome. @Yam's Board

It runs anywhere that you have Chrome installed, so you can take it anywhere. It even works on ARM chromebooks.

Black Out - hide sensitive information [macOS] [ Time limited OFFER ]

Black Out lets you quickly hide sensitive parts of an image.

This can be useful when you want  to post a screenshot or photo on the web that contains some information you don't want to be revealed.

Touch Blur-Picture click and blur [macOS] [ Time limited OFFER ]

Touch Blur is a tool to blur selective area of your image with the simple user interface and edge preserving algorithm to get realistic output.

qimgv：Open-source image browser with video preview support [Windows/Linux]

qimgv is an open-source image browser. It is compact, fast, and simple. It supports video preview, cropping, and fast forword functions. @Yam's Board

I’ll help Google explain the YouTube yellow label incident

In recent years, YouTube has become the most popular audio and video platform in this century. Many content creators (YouTuber) produce a variety of content on the platform and share profits with YouTube officials through the YouTube advertising mechanism. However, recently, many YouTubers from Hong Kong and Taiwan complained that many videos related to "New Crown Pneumonia" or COVID-19 were "yellow label", that is, they could not earn the corresponding dividends of the traffic. YouTube later explained that it was not targeted at a group and would provide an opportunity to appeal.

Does the iPhone need to clear the backstage? This should not have been controversial

In 2009, Palm released the first Palm Pre equipped with WebOS system. As a new system for benchmarking iOS, WebOS incorporates a lot of forward-looking elements. One of the functions that has been talked about and quickly imitated by Apple and Google is the card-type backstage.

New study: Asymptomatic infection of COVID-19 can last up to 29 days!

The reduction in the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 in China is encouraging, but "asymptomatic infections" cannot be ignored.

Recently, research on asymptomatic infections has frequently appeared in well-known medical journals including NEJM, JAMA, medRxiv. The latest research, led by Shen Hongbing, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and principal of Nanjing Medical University, pointed out that the infection period of asymptomatic infection of the new crown virus is as long as 29 days.

After entering the wrong PIN Code three times in Google Adsense

On January 29th, I had "Your payments are currently on hold because you have not verified your address." from Google Adsense but did not pass Google ’s manual verification. I just received an email sent automatically telling me to follow the instruction from Google Search Center. 

AI Image Enlarger, Nondestructive Enlargement of Pictures with AI

AI Image Enlarger is a service that uses AI to non-destructively magnify pictures. It has a web version, Windows / macOS client, and iPhone / Android applications. It can easily magnify pictures 2x, 4x, and 8x.

Chrome extension called Keep Computer Awake

This is a Chrome extension without a proper name. It is called " Keep Computer Awake (for a While)" in the Chrome App Store. It can override the current energy saving settings of the operating system to temporarily enter a normally-on state, such as not turning off the monitor or turning off the monitor Enter system hibernation.

There are several system-level anti-sleep applications , such as KeepingYouAwake under macOS, Awake under Windows, Caffeine under Android, and so on.

Plugin to back your blog up in Internet Museum Archive.org

Today, I came up with a question about how to permanently save my website on the Internet. Although my blog is not so valuable to others, however, as an individual, I still hope that I can keep indelible marks on the Internet, proving my existence.

Just like Wikipedia, as early as the end of the last century, someone has done similar work and created the Internet History Museum-

Unleash the potential of Safari reading lists

The Safari reading list is a relatively overlooked feature on macOS and iOS. This feature originally appeared in the OS X Lion and iOS 5 systems in 2011, but except for the offline cache that was added the following year, it basically remained the same for these eight years Compared with full-time read services such as Pocket and Instapaper.

Thai people ’s response to the plastic ban

People who have traveled to Thailand know that Thai people have put too much effort into expressing their sincerity with plastic bags.

Buying two bottles of beverages will give you a layer-by-layer cover. You can only use plastic bags as a set of baby dolls.

How to cast iPhone / iPad / Mac screen (AirPlay) to Windows

The AirPlay function of iPhone, iPad, and Mac can cast iPhone screen to Apple TV. Now you can use Airplay Receiver for windows to project to Windows.

Airplay Receiver for windows is a simple screen projection function, which allows iPhone, iPad, Mac devices to mirror the screen to Windows through the built-in AirPlay function.

How to Add a Google Sitemap to your Blogger Blog

I decided to run this blog well, so I hope to optimize the site for search.

Although I have only about 20 articles so far，I check out nothing on my website is included in the google search engine. 

I didn't find sitemap-related settings on blogspot, and I couldn't submit links to search engines such as Google and Bing.

I hate mailto: email links

mailto is an email contact link that is used on many web pages. You can open a mail client with just one click. For me, I don't like to open the mail client in the browser at all !!!

Actually, this is the case. I saw a browser extension called I hate mailto and found out that this is what I needed: it can make all mailto: links on the webpage click to copy the email address, Very suitable. But this is a paid extension.

However, I thought that there must be other developers unhappy with mailto, so I found two extensions, corresponding to Chrome and Firefox.

The introduction of the world's first classical Chinese programming language

The programming language called " wenyan-lang " was created by Lingdong Huang , a Chinese student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) last year.Last month, Huang used the last week before graduation to complete the core functions of this language, and the world ’s first classical language was officially born.

Note of Google Address verification (PIN)

When I logged into Google Adsense today, a line jumped from the top of the page:

      Your payments are currently on hold because you have not verified your address.

This made me realize that my Adsense account balance had reached $ 10. And the sentence means that your website income has reached the Google payment threshold, and you need to verify your Whether the harvest address is correct.

For details, please refer to AdSense Help . 

A sudden eye disease

At 9 o'clock last night, my right eye burst into tears when I was on the Internet, and then my eyelids could not be opened. This is an eye disease I have never experienced in my life; of course, except for myopia. After ten minutes of rest, I still felt not well. I finally standed my eyelids to write a diary half-blindly, and hoped that when I fell asleep, I could heal myself.

I woke up early today and found that my symptoms did not ease. In the mirror, I found that there are some red filaments in the right eye. Just like the suspected conjunctivitis which is also known as "red eye disease", but the symptoms of conjunctivitis are not obvious. As a person with a good attendance record, I went for work as usual. Before I start my work, I did the following things: