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Web, Socials and Personal Updates – Q4 of 2025
Web, Socials and Personal Updates – Q4 of 2025

Oh how time flies… It’s been almost four months since my last update, and now we’re in the final days of 2025; some changes are already visible, some are still only hints, and a few may never see the light of day—oops, I got carried away with too much research. To start, this year has flown […]


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Triple phone wielding – Android user experience with iPhone 13 Pro and iOS (long-term personal review) - iPhone 13 Pro, Poco F5 and Redmi 14C (Watermarked)
Triple phone wielding – Android user experience with iPhone 13 Pro and iOS (long-term personal review)

Or as I like to call it: using both operating systems at the same time, but for completely different reasons and ecosystems. Let’s set the premise straight. I’m a long-term Android-only user who occasionally flirted with iOS in the past (using iPhone 6 for a month when I had to or even temporary for work […]


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Surviving Windows 10 End of Support: Practical Tips and Workarounds

Hey everyone, as you probably already know, Windows 10 official support is officially over starting tomorrow, October 14, 2025—unless you’re in the ESU program. That means no more updates, not even security ones. So, it’s time to either upgrade to Windows 11 with new PC or with compatible one, switch over to Linux, or maybe […]


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Latest Beta 8 build of iOS 26 on my personal iPhone 13 Pro.
Testing iOS 26 on a Backup Device: Development Insights

It’s early summer 2025, and it’s time to get ready for the next macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and even watchOS releases. This year it will be named all version 26, some OS versions skipping lot of numbering versions, but who cares, now it is all in same brand scheme, is that right Tim? Soon it won’t be […]


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Web, Socials and Personal Updates - Q3 of 2025
Web, Socials and Personal Updates – Q3 of 2025

Well, this is a bit awkward, isn’t it? Another web and socials update in less than two months! Didn’t I just post everything in the last update back in Q2, almost early Q3 of 2025, in June? Dear readers, some news just can’t wait, so let’s get straight into it: website updates. It’s not a […]


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Retro Review: Using an Open-Source Operating System in 2018
Retro Review: Using an Open-Source Operating System in 2018

This post was originally written in April 2018 after about a month of running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as my main OS on a then-“current,” low-end Lenovo B50-30 laptop. I’ve proofread it for clarity but kept the original style and tone intact. Alternative title: Or, how to use Ubuntu as your main laptop OS Here we […]


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Inside Croatia’s Latest .hr Phishing Wave: What I Learned from My Own Inbox
Inside Croatia’s Latest .hr Phishing Wave: What I Learned from My Own Inbox

Over the past week, I’ve encountered a troubling wave of phishing emails sent to my official .hr address—the same one I use for my website—and each message claimed to originate from a reputable Croatian national service using Microsoft Outlook. In three separate instances, I found a yellow‐highlighted link in the body of the email that […]


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Late Q2 / Early Q3 2025: Web, Social & Personal Updates
Late Q2 / Early Q3 2025: Web, Social & Personal Updates

Yeah, I know it’s still Q2 as I’m writing this, but by the time this post goes live at the end of June, we’ll be firmly into Q3—so here we go, as Fabrizio Romano might say when a football transfer is officially confirmed. The website’s design hasn’t changed—why mess with a good thing? Behind the […]


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Bleeding-Edge Software: Beta Testing and Personal Insights - Xiaomi Mi Pilot program, Latest Windows 11 Canary Build and iOS 26 on iPhone 13 Pro
Bleeding-Edge Software: Beta Testing and Personal Insights

This is not for the faint of heart—bleeding-edge or rolling-release software can make you wake up one day saying “everything worked fine yesterday,” then curse the heavens the next morning when you ask yourself what on earth that update changed to ruin your day. If you prefer stable releases or Long-Term Support (LTS), you’re probably […]


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Surviving Software Updates and Upgrades: Lessons from the Trenches - Created using Canva AI
Surviving Software Updates and Upgrades: Lessons from the Trenches

Software updates and upgrades are a reality for anyone working with technology today. We all depend on a variety of applications to get our jobs done, and keeping them up to date is essential—not just for security, but also for performance and access to the latest features. However, as many of us have experienced, sometimes an […]


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