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# Spin eye: Honest Reviews. Proven Tools. Real Results.
## Posts
- [Shared to Cloud Hosting Migration: A 7-Step Website Guide](https://spineye.com/shared-to-cloud-hosting-migration-guide/): Complete 7-step guide to migrating from shared to cloud hosting with zero downtime — planning, execution, and optimization.
- [Why Is Gmail Asking to Scan My Local Network?](https://spineye.com/gmail-local-network-permission/): Chrome 142 added a Local Network Access permission, so websites must now ask before reaching devices on your home network. What it covers, what refusing it breaks, and the parallel change in Android 16 and 17.
- [PicView Review: Do You Still Need a Third-Party Image Viewer?](https://spineye.com/picview-review/): Windows Photos is now faster by Microsoft’s own figure. A research-based look at whether PicView, a free image viewer with an unusually wide format list, still earns its place.
- [WeatherMaster Review: A Free, Pixel-Style Weather App for Android](https://spineye.com/weathermaster-review/): A research-based review of WeatherMaster, the free open-source Android weather app — including an honest look at the switching reason that does not hold up.
- [Obtainium Review: The App That Updates Everything You Sideload](https://spineye.com/obtainium-review/): A research-based review of Obtainium, the free open-source Android app that keeps sideloaded apps updated from 25+ sources — the infrastructure sideloaders rely on, and the security trade-off it hands you.
- [Next Player Review: The Ad-Free Android Video Player Nobody Reviewed](https://spineye.com/next-player-review/): A research-based review of Next Player, the free open-source Android video player with Material 3 design, broad codec support and NAS playback — and the warning its own developer gives.
- [We Read 806 Reddit Threads Looking for Hidden-Gem Software. Here Is What We Found.](https://spineye.com/reddit-hidden-gem-software-research/): Original research: 806 threads and 5,533 comments across ten communities, searched for discovery language instead of tool names. The method, the findings, and where it breaks.
- [What the Huntarr Incident Teaches About Trusting Self-Hosted Apps](https://spineye.com/huntarr-security-incident-lessons/): A researcher reported that Huntarr exposed the API keys of an entire *arr stack to unauthenticated requests, then the repo vanished. What is documented, what is not, and how to judge the next self-hosted app.
- [Easydict Review: The Free Mac Translator That Beats Paid OCR Apps](https://spineye.com/easydict-review/): A research-based review of Easydict, the free open-source macOS translator with offline OCR and 20+ engines — including local AI models — and what it asks of you in return.
- [Dawarich Review: The Self-Hosted Google Timeline Replacement](https://spineye.com/dawarich-review/): A research-based review of Dawarich, the self-hosted Google Timeline alternative — what it replaces, what it costs to run, and the update warning you should read first.
- [Brows3 Review: The Free S3 Browser Reddit Found First](https://spineye.com/brows3-review/): A research-based review of Brows3, the free open-source S3 browser for Windows, macOS and Linux — what it does well, what its speed claims still need, and who should skip it.
- [v2md Review](https://spineye.com/v2md-review/): A research-based v2md review: the Mac and iOS app that turns voice recordings into clean Markdown for Obsidian. Features, pricing and honest limitations.
- [Scriberr Review: Is This Self-Hosted AI Transcription App Worth It?](https://spineye.com/scriberr-review/): A research-based review of Scriberr, the open-source self-hosted AI transcription app for podcasters — what it does well, where it falls short, and who it is for.

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- [About Ben-G & Spineye.com](https://spineye.com/about-me/): I'm Ben-G, a digital entrepreneur based in the Netherlands. For over a decade I've followed cloud hosting, VPS providers, AI tools and digital marketing software closely, and I write about them so you can compare with the facts in front of you. I also dig up lesser-known tools — the ones a small group of users quietly swears by — that most review sites have never covered.