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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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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12
Jan

Asus EEE web storage

My girlfriend bought a new EEE laptop and I’ve noticed that 500 GB free web storage from Asus comes with it. There is not much mentioned about this on the box, but the factory Windows 7 installation has a direct link to the service on the desktop. There’s also a sticker on the notebook itself that states that the notebook has 750 GB storage: 250 GB of hard disk and 500 GB of online storage. Interesting combination, specially for the cutomers who are buying it and deciding between models with more hard disk.

As I’ve reviewed the Asus storage web site they offer cloud storage to anyone, but Asus users get better prices. It looks like only buyers of their EEE computers get 500 GB of storage free – ordinary users like me get only 1 GB free space.

I will convince my girlfriend to try the service and will report on it’s use, speed and reliability. I really wonder if it can be used as a cloud disk.


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