My girlfriends Asus EEE
The following post is a cross post from my other blog about My Asus EEE nettop computer and is available here directly. I thought it was interesting to compare how a battery of a laptops can last almost longer than my mobile phone’s Samsung Galaxy i7500 battery does.
My girlfriend was thrilled about my (or better our) EEE. I can call it ‘our old EEE’ now, because she got herself one too. It’s superior to mine in all aspects: bigger screen (which is really a plus), more RAM, has hard disk, faster CPU, very long battery life and I’m sure there are other cool features as well. The name of the machine is Asus EEE 1101HA, it’s black, has 2 GB RAM, 250 GB hard disk and comes with Windows 7 Home Premium pre-installed. She has it only for a few days now, but she loves it already.
My observation so far is that it seems a bit slow. I don’t know if it’s the EEE itself or is it Windows 7. Maybe it just needs some fine tuning and turning off some cool visual features, but I think this should have been already done in the factory or in the shop.
The second weird thing is that when turned on, it started updating the systems, itself, the system again, then the settings, then Windows updates,… This went on for several hours.
The really cool thing is it’s battery. I don’t know about other laptops or nettops, but I haven’t really seen a battery powered computer that doesn’t die for so long. The battery life is supposed to be more than 10 hours, and it seems that it’s correct or pretty close. When first charged, it worked for 8 hours already and it still not dead. The battery life of this EEE is really great.
The price for it was very reasonable, 369 EUR with tax included. We bought it in Slovenia again, this time from Enaa web shop.
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My first Android phone is Samsung Galaxy i7500
I am a proud owner of a Samsung Galaxy android mobile phone, also known as Samsung i7500 in some countries. I have bought it a month ago and have been exploring it since. Actually I’ve been exploring the free applications on the market and the possibilities they bring along. It’s my first mobile phone that uses the internet in full spectrum. The previous phone (SonyEricson 800i) had only a browser and a mail client, which is not enough anymore.
How did I decide for this phone? It was pretty easy and in three steps:
- I compiled a list of phones that have WLAN, GPS and touch screen and are sold in Slovenia.
- I selected the phones that have Android operating system.
- I selected the phone with lowest SAR level (Specific Absorption Rate is a level of radiation from the phone).
The final step was to go to a store and check if my selection was correct. I used the phone for a minute and it worked fine (and I didn’t know how to use it…), and it fit in my pocket perfectly. That was it, I own the phone now!
The thing is that the phone is more a computer that it is a phone. Features of a phone are only one of many on this machine; it has other features like browser, alarm clock, digital map, camera, shopping list and so on. I like that, specially because I have noticed that I use it as a phone for max. 30 minutes a day and for other uses for more than an hour.
I really like the phone, but there is one thing that bothers me. It’s battery life. It’s really short. Too short for not being broken. I am using the phone for one month and I’ve spent only two evenings not charging it because it was almost empty. The next mornings of these two evenings the phone was dead. So yes, the max battery life I’ve gotten out of it was less than 30 hours. I’m keeping the use of devices low (GPS navigator, wi-fi, bluetooth, 3g,…), but it’s still bad. That’s why I’ll take it back to the seller to see if the battery is broken.
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Using Selenium IDE, an add-on for Firefox
Today I was testing web application from user management. I had to test several cases and write test scenarios for them. Since Firefox is my web browser of choice I used Firefox add-on Selenium IDE, an extention that I installed more than a year ago. It’s a powerful add-on that enables automated testing of web applications. It’s easy to use, too – all you have to do is open it and start recording your clicks, everything else is done automatically. From your clicks and inputs it creates a script that you can later run again and again.
I’m still figuring out how to manage lists that populate dynamically and don’t have the same item order every time.
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