Samsung Diagnostic Codes
Samsung Cell Phones – Programmer Codes Suggested by: GodCube, 11 Apr 2007 |Â Print version Type these codes into the phone where you normally would make a call. #646# then press the Call button: T-Mobile Customers only, shows minute usage. *#06# : Show IMEI. *#9999# : Show Software Version. *#0837# : Show Software Version (instructions). *#0001# […]
Google Play Music
I’ve got music everywhere — on my laptop and desktop at home, a subset of that music on a work laptop to sync with my iPhone, music on a USB stick in my car and music on an SD card in my Android phone. One of my biggest pet peeves with my iPhone has been […]
Chapter 12 – Android Battery Drain
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I’m moving back to my iPhone for a while — while I’m loving the Android environment, I’m getting about 8 hours of idle time out of my Galaxy SIII, and that’s just not […]
Chapter 11 – I removed iTunes!
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. I removed iTunes from my computer yesterday, and it was the culmination of several years of frustration. iTunes does a lot of things from updating phones to tracking podcasts, providing store access, iPhone […]
Chapter 10 – All In With Google
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. The Google Play store has over a million apps available for download, and there are other Android app stores available. There’s no limiting you to one store, as with the iPhone. Trying to find […]
Chapter 9 – Secure Android Messaging
This is a series of blog posts documenting my switch from iPhone to Android. To read the whole exciting saga, click here. Now that I’ve upgraded to a newer Android phone, I’m testing out secure messaging applications for mobile devices. Open Whisper Systems make two products I’m trying out – TextSecure and RedPhone. They offer […]
A $35 computer that could change the world…
Barring a significant change in course, history tells us that the computers of tomorrow will be faster, smaller, better and cheaper than the computers of today. We began with warehouse-sized machines that were barely capable of basic algebra, and we’ve arrived at the Raspberry Pi. For those unfamiliar with the term, it’s a full-fledged computer […]
Moto E Review – a nice cheap Android phone?
I’m looking for a cheap 4-inch android phone with a newer OS, expansion, and decent hardware. There’s a ton of no-name import quad-band phones out there, but when digging deeper into the specifications, find out it’s got a 2 megapixel camera. Or it’s 3G only. Or it’s all plastic. I read this review of the […]
Dear FCC: Rethink The Vague “General Conduct” Rule
For many months, EFF has been working with a broad coalition of advocates to persuade the Federal Communications Commission to adopt new Open Internet rules that would survive legal scrutiny and actually help protect the Open Internet. Our message has been clear from the beginning: the FCC has a role to play, but its role […]