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Use the default Android sharing mechanism with the Brave browser

8 May 2021 By Avinash Meetoo 2 Comments

(NB September 2021: This does not seem to work anymore… I’m investigating.)

I have been using the Brave browser on my phone for some time now and it works great.

When I find an interesting website or article, I often share it to social media and, for some reason, the Brave developers slightly changed the way sharing is done in the latest version of the browser. To restore the previous way of doing sharing i.e. using the default Android sharing mechanism, there is one setting to disable: Chrome Sharing Hub.

The idea is simply to go to brave://flags, look for Chrome Sharing Hub (which means that Brave probably is built on Chromium), disable the setting and relaunch Brave.

Enjoy.

Music I like: Zoolookologie by Jean-Michel Jarre

27 April 2021 By Avinash Meetoo Leave a Comment

We are in 2021 now but I still remember my brother and I first listening to Zoolookologie around 1985-1986. Even though we were using cassettes on a very basic Tatung sound system, the music sounded great. The sampled voices and the synth sounds were out of this world.

Jean-Michel Jarre had released Zoolook, his 7th album in 1984. Even though, people consider albums such as OxygÃ¨ne, Equinoxe and Les Chants MagnÃ©tiques as being better, I liked Zoolook more, for its novelty and energy. Listening to that track brings so many good memories: it was at that time that my brother and I start feeling an urge to learn how to play and compose music I think.

At that time, the pre-MTV and pre-YouTube era, there were no videos on TV and I have to say that the Zoolookologie video, while dated of course, is beautiful in its own special way. 37 years after, the music and the video are still good and this is testament to how good Jean-Michel Jarre actually is. And he looks so young in the video…

Music I like: Love by Air

7 April 2021 By Avinash Meetoo Leave a Comment

I apologise. The video is of very low quality (240p!) but the audio quality is good. This is Air playing Love live in 2009. Air are an electronic music duo from France who released a critically acclaimed debut album, Moon Safari, in 1998. They then did the soundtrack of Sofia Coppola’s first movie, The Virgin Suicides, and a number of other albums including Love 2, from which Love is taken.

When I listen to Air, I sometimes get a Pink Floyd vide but in a modern way, mixed with some smooth Jazz. Interestingly, some of their tracks are good house or even techno tracks too. My favourite album is not Love 2 in fact but rather 10,000Hz which I got on CD twenty years ago and which still sounds amazing. My favourite song on it is Radian and it’s a 7:30 masterpiece.

I’ve been listening to music since I was a kid but, because I also play music, I really value every track I listen to. I sincerely believe, now, that there is no bad music. There is only music I like and music which, for some reason, I do not like. People have different taste. And that’s fine.