Find IP address of Raspberry Pi from Windows, use Advanced IP Scanner

Advanced IP Scanner is a free and fast network scanner allowing you to quickly retrieve information about network devices and get access to their various resources such as shared folders, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, RDP and Radmin. The program does not require installation and has a simple and user-friendly interface. Advanced IP Scanner is widely used by system administrators and home users for network management and monitoring.

Advanced IP Scanner run on Windows 10 to find IP of Raspberry Pi

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Related:
- Java example to find connected IPs in the same network

Resize file system on microSD of Ubuntu MATE 15.04 for Raspberry Pi 2

This post show how to resize file system on microSD with Ubuntu MATE 15.04 for Raspberry Pi 2 installed, using Linux GUI application GParted run on another Linux machine.

To install GParted, enter the command:
$ sudo apt-get install gparted

This video show how:


After resized and boot up Ubuntu MATE on Raspberry Pi 2, now I have 15.7G on a 16G microSD.

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This page (eLinux: RPi Resize Flash Partitions http://elinux.org/RPi_Resize_Flash_Partitions) describes activities relating to partitions on the Raspberry Pi for Linux based operating systems, such as Raspian Linux. It may also apply to other operating systems too, but you should check. Incorrectly using the instructions is likely to corrupt your system.

Install espeak, Text to Speech (Speech Synthesis), on Raspberry Pi

eSpeak is a compact open source software speech synthesizer for English and other languages, for Linux and Windows.   http://espeak.sourceforge.net.

To install espeak on Raspberry Pi, enter the command:
$ sudo apt-get install espeak

To test:
$ espeak hello

Use your Android device as wireless mouse and keyboard for your Pi

Simple Computer Remote is the a Android remote app that supports Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and even the Raspberry Pi. Simple Computer Remote is a wireless touchpad style mouse and keyboard for your desktop computer that works over wifi. This allows you to replace or supplement your mouse and keyboard for control of your media center computer, desktop computer, laptop, raspberry pi, or any other Windows, Linux, or Apple Mac OS X based desktop computer.

Simple Computer Remote is now open source!

DOWNLOAD SERVER
http://philproctor.github.io/SimpleComputerRemote/

FEATURES
* Open Source!
* Zero Configuration
* Touchpad style mouse control
* Use your normal Android keyboard
* Use Swype or voice recognition if your device supports it
* Configurable mouse sensitivity
* No IP Address configuration, works well with dynamic IP
* Landscape or portrait touchpad
* Excellent for presentation or media center control
* Two-finger scrolling
* Push and hold to drag
* Two-finger tap for right click

Raspberry Pi emulator for Windows

Raspberry Pi emulation for Windows contains everything needed to quickly and simply emulate the Raspberry Pi in a Windows environment. Visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/rpiqemuwindows/, download, un-zip and run.

Raspberry Pi emulation for Windows

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Remark@2017-05-07:
- PIXEL FOR PC AND MAC released
- Try RASPBIAN JESSIE WITH PIXEL on x86 PC using VirtualBox/Windows 10

Geany - small and fast Editor/IDE

Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It supports many filetypes and has some nice features. For more details see Here.

To install Geany on Raspberry Pi, enter the command:
$ sudo apt-get install geany

Once installed, you can run Geany in Start > Programming > Geany
or enter the command:
$ geany

install Geany on Raspberry Pi

Geany run on Raspberry Pi