20
Jan

Samsung Galaxy i7500 firmware update to I7500XXII7

Some time ago I wrote about my first Android phone, the Samsung Galaxy i7500. I have had some issues with the battery so one of the things I did was to update the firmware. I wrote about that on one of my sites while testing Joomla installation, thumbnailmaker.com. I am reposting the article here to let you know about my version of firmware.

Original post (link):

My Samsung Galaxy i7500 Android phone just lost its battery in 5 hours of wi-fi, GPS and phone use. It was charged to 96% and has powered off during a call. I have decided to upgrade the firmware, but I wanted to do it at the dealer’s. I have ran New PC Studio (NPC) to make sure which version I have and I have noted that it offered me a new version to upgrade, the one I haven’t seen before. It was version I7500XXII7 as you can see on the screen shot.

I didn’t find much about this version on the net, only two results. Any ideas if it’s good or not?

i7500xxii7 Samsung Galaxy i7500 firmware update to I7500XXII7

Update: I have tried to update the firmware again, but the software says there are no new updates found.


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20
Jan

All CMS systems use funny logic

I didn’t really like CMS (Content management system) systems for editing or creating web sites. I have created many web sites, but I have created all of them in pure HTML or PHP, without helper applications. I like it that way, because it gives me all control over the code and thus over the final result. This approach to web design, of course, takes time. More time then it should for a simple site, specially when you already have the graphic design. That’s why I have started to look at the CMs systems for small, not so important sites. I found Joomla, Drupal and several more PHP content management systems, but whichever I tried, none were good for my taste. I didn’t know why, but finaly I realized it.

The problem of all major CMS systems is that they’re big. They have the logic for building big sites.  None of them is made for simple minimal sites. That’s why they have sections, categories, articles, separate menus, multimedia and so on. This could still be understandable, but the way to connect all those together and create a working site is almost never intuitive. The problem as I see it is that the user can’t create a content (“a page”) and put it in the main menu. No, the user has to create a section, create a category inside the section, write an article (which will later be “a page”), then create a menu, create a menu item, then create a menu item action, then go to special options and select the article from the list, then… Hell, I don’t remember any more. I had to buy a Joomla book and follow a step-by-step example. And apparently, I’ll do it again.

The important thing here is that every of this actions has tens of attributes so you really get lost easily. Even if you’re a professional web developer. Or even better, specially when you’re professional web developer and used to work with pure HTML.

By the way, a really good site for testing all kinds of CMS is http://www.opensourcecms.com/ – you can try all of them without the need for installation on your server. Great!

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15
Jan

My list of best free applications that I really use

Every person has a list of their favorites. Since I write software I decided to write a list of free or open software that I like and actually use. Here we go:

  • Firefox, a web browser I use (and like) 80% of my time when behind a computer
  • Android, an operating system I use and like on my Samsung Galaxy phone
  • Apache, a web server that runs my web sites
  • PHP with MySQL, a web programming language, a platform and a database that supports my web sites
  • Paint.NET and Gimp, graphical softwares that I use instead of Paint Shop Pro and still haven’t decided if only one of them is sufficient or not
  • CDBurnerXP, a CD and DVD burning utility that I use because Nero is not free
  • Metapad, a simple text editor I use instead of Notepad, because it has undo / redo and useful find and replace
  • TreeSize Free, a tool for calculating free space by folder
  • Winamp (old version), a music player
  • BSPlayer (old version), video player

Then there are web services, but I don’t count them in the same category as software. There are also my freeware programs, but I didn’t find it appropriate to list them here instead of other tools, even if I use them a lot.

Note that for Winamp ant BSPlayer I wrote that I’m using an older version then the last one. That is because in my opinion the newer version are worse or use annoying advertising.

This list is far from complete. I just wanted to list the first 10 software titles that I remember – in some theories the first things you remember seem to be the most important.

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