Category Archives: Smartphones

Android Device Manager, a way to locate your phone or tablet

Posted on 22 September 2013 by Admin

Android Device Manager is a new function in Android to be able to locate your phone. It should work for android 2.2 and up. After login to device manager https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager, one can see the latest location of the phone or … Continue reading →

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DIY Spectrometer, and notes on online Spectral Workbench

Posted on 6 February 2013 by Admin

There exist several variations of DIY spectrometer by using CD or DVD as the main component (ie. generating the rainbow of colors by diffraction from the optical disk grooves). The output is a spectra, light intensity versus wavelength. In Wikipedia: … Continue reading →

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World Newspapers, android application to read newspapers and RSS feeds

Posted on 3 May 2012 by Admin

World Newspapers is one good alternative for reading your favorite news. Good: Create your own list of newspapers Long list of newspapers build-in RSS support Offline reading possible (to read later) Bad: no support for Atom feeds Screenshots showing “Browse” … Continue reading →

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AnDLNA, android application to view videos and online feeds from your media server

Posted on 16 April 2012 by Admin

AnDLNA is one of the DLNA clients for android. If you have a media server at your home network (see blog), then you could watch videos and feeds via WiFi on your android without hassling with moving them to your … Continue reading →

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MX Player, media player for android

Posted on 16 April 2012 by Admin

MX Player is one of the free media player alternatives for android. Good sides: support for subtitles (srt files) codecs are automatically downloaded during installation (Unfortunately drocap2 didn’t succeed better in the screenshot above) For more about the features, see … Continue reading →

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gStrings, Android tool for verifying tuning of a piano

Posted on 28 February 2012 by Admin

“gStrings Free” is good basic tool for verifying if your piano is in tune. I have used for both acoustic and digital pianos. It automatically can recognize the notes, and displays the frequency as well (see below).

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Risks and recommendation for smartphone users, report by ENISA

Posted on 2 January 2012 by Admin

ENISA has published a report called “Smartphones: Information security risks, opportunities and recommendations for users”, which is good reading for smartphone security issues. 10 different risks are evaluated: R1 Data leakage R2 Improper decommissioning R3 Unintentional data disclosure R4 Phishing … Continue reading →

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