Anguel's Techie Blog

A few days ago I received my new Nexus 5 smartphone. At first look, the display looked ok, not the quality of Samsung or even the higher priced LG Android phones but ok for the price. But then, while sliding my finger over the touchscreen I noticed something uneven. It looked like a small black dot, similar to a dead pixel but I asked myself why I could feel this spot with my finger? First I thought that it was some particle attached to the screen and tried to carefully scratch it off with my finger nail. But it did not go away. It was definitely NOT a dead pixel. Looking more carefully at the screen I also noticed other similar small black dots, the size of a few pixels. So I finally decided to look what these were under a microscope. And it turned out these were black metal or paint spots melted into the screen! I did not expect that. I mean I expect some drawbacks because of the lower price but I don't expect such quality problems. Google and LG cannot advertise the phone wi...

The whole UI concept is nuts. Share is probably the most used function. Now lets see what happens on an Android tablet if you want to share a photo one of your friends has shared. 1. Facebook App: NO "share" button at all. So you must click on a photo to open it in full size first, then select "share" from the Android options menu but this stupid app starts sharing this as your own photo - it even asks where the photo was taken! 2. In the Browser: Firefox for Android: Facebook site as intelligent as it is, opens some crippled mobile version of the site that looks like Netscape 1.0 and again NO "share" link - here there is NO way to share something. Opera for Android: Here for some unknown reason I finally see the normal facebook website including a "share" link. Unfortunately the facebook site uses some stupid scripts that will screw up the Opera browser at some point. Bottom line: There is no user friendly / working way to ...

The Samsung Galaxy S I9000 is one of the best smartphones and a real iPhone killer. Unfortunately the firmware update is done through a Samsung program called Kies wich is really bad. How Kies bricked my Galaxy S during firmware update I would like to report how I recovered from a really bad flash (actually a brick) caused during firmware update using Samsung Kies on the Galaxy S I9000. First of all, I was not prepared that official Samsung firmware flashing could cause me such problems and could brick a smartphone at the end of 2010! But this is what happened to me! Really bad what Samsung gives to its customers. BTW, I would describe myself as a computer pro, programmer and hardware developer, so I am not a complete newbie regarding firmware updates ;) I had bought my Galaxy S I9000 in Germany and its official firmware stated: pda: i9000xxjm1, phone: i9000xxjm1, csc: i9000xajm1, pccode: gt-i9000hkddbt I had installed multiple progs on the phone but had NOT modded it in any ...

While looking for the amazing Contao CMS (aka TypoLight) I discovered two nice links: The first link is an interactive CMS feature comparison matrix: http://www.cmsmatrix.org/ The second link offers CMS (and other) usage statistics: http://trends.builtwith.com/cms

Some time ago I noticed a problem with my Windows XP Pro. While browsing MyComputer the folders window freezes / hangs / does not respond anymore. The taskbar also becomes unresponsive. The only thing I can do is to kill the process. Of course this is not a good solution. Fortunately running chkdsk does not report any problems on the drive after that. I found a post on another blog regarding this problem with some possible solutions and I would like to share it: Solutions to Taskbar Hangs or Freezes in Windows XP I have done the first two steps and will watch if this has solved the problem...

www.spelltool.com Have a Look at My New Website! I have developed a new web site with the features listed below: English: Spell According to the ICAO/ITU/NATO Spelling Alphabet Avoid confusion on the phone! Let us spell names, e-mail addresses, foreign words and technical terms automatically for you. Letters and numbers are spelled according to the international spelling alphabet adopted by: ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization), ITU (International Telecommunication Union), NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), IMO (International Maritime Organization), FAA (American Federal Aviation Administration), ANSI (American National Standards Institute), ARRL (American Radio Relay League) Punctuation marks, signs and special characters are also presented with their full names. Very helpful when talking to your business partners on the phone, but also for di...

I found some good explanation what content management systems (CMS) are and a short comparison of three main CMS: Drupal vs. Joomla vs. Wordpress. Although Contao aka TypoLight and Typo3 are missing in the comparisons, these are very nice videos: