17
Nov

Sheet name in downloaded PDF in Google Docs

In the recent update of Google Docs there is a new feature that I can’t find a good use for: when I print (download) the Spreadsheet in PDF, the file name now contains the name of the sheet as well as the name of the document. Until now the downloaded PDF contained only the name of the spreadsheet which was better for my use.

I hope they will make it an option.

On a related note, Spreadsheets still can’t remember print settings of a document – when the user closes the spreadsheet and opens it again, all print settings (i.e. selection, paper size or layout) are lost and have to be re-set again.


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7
Nov

Wrong letters (bad character set) in Gmail since redesign – solved

Have you also noticed that the mails sent from your Gmail account (or Gmail for Apps) is not the same after the big design change? Usually some special local characters are missing or are displayed incorectly, for exmpale for Slovenian ‘?’, ‘š’, and ‘ž’, for Czech similar ‘š’ and others, for Polish ‘?’, ”?’ or ‘?’ and others. These characters used to be dislayed normally before the design change.

You have probably tried to revert the design back to the previous one, but the errors still occur.

The reason for this is that with the new design the setting for the default character encoding in sent mails changed. I don’t know the reason for this, but I think it must be a bug.

The solution is simple: When logged in to your Gmail account, click the icon for Settings in top right screen corner (there are two, and any of them will do) and click “Settings” or “Mail settings”. In “General” tab find this setting “Outgoing message encoding:” and select “Use Unicode (UTF-8) encoding for outgoing messages”. This should fix the wrong characters in Gmail.


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2
Nov

Make your Samsung Galaxy i7500 faster – by downgrading!

As you might all well know by now, I am a (proud?) owner of Samsung Galaxy i7500. Yes, the first Samsung Galaxy that I bought almost two years ago and was then a top notch phone. Not for long – it had Android 1.5 and Samsung had forgotten about it very soon. After less than half year there were new versions of Android out that enabled users to install many more and advanced apps, which were not available for 1.5.

Thanks to hackers like Drakaz who also owned this phone, there were unofficial releases of Android 1.6 for this phone (Galaxo), and later 2.1, 2.2 and even 2.3 (GAOSP). Every latest version had less features and was marked ‘public beta’ or ‘nightly’, which meant it could or it does contain bugs or unfinished features. I have installed all but 2.3 since it was marked as ‘beta 1′, very early release. Thanks to Drakaz I could use new apps from Google, I could use feature that otherwise I couldn’t. But all that came for a price: my Samsung Galaxy became so slow, that even a simple task of opening a contact list took 10-30 seconds (yes, seconds). I have tried some hacks but the speed didn’t improve. I got used that if I miss a call I need two minutes to be able to call back, that I need three minutes to check in with Foursquare and that I only browse when I have more than five minutes of free time. I even got used to remove some apps I didn’t use so often so the phone might respond faster.

I was both a proud owner of the first Samsung Galaxy and the user of Android 2.2 for almost a year. Not bad – when I forget about the speed it’s even great. Lately I started to look for a now phone, because the speed was getting on my nerves. I wanted a phone I could use without staring at the blank screen for 30 seconds. I’ve seen there’s many Android phones on the market, not all expensive. Sure, I thought, now’s not the time to buy a new phone, Android 4.0 will be out any time now and I’ll end up with an old phone again, this time maybe even sooner than in six months. So I got an idea:  since my phone has basically made me to use just the basic functions and slim apps, maybe I can downgrade to a previous version of Android! The apps will be faster, but they will have fewer features. Compared to what I had, this was win situation.

So I have decided to downgrade to Android 1.6 (Galaxo). I created backups with Nandroid, then I used GalaxyUpdaterFull by Drakaz to install new OS. The fist impression of it was very positive – I have thought I have a new phone in my hands! I have installed several apps that I got used to and by doing that have found even some new interesting ones that I might start using. I have found several apps that mimic features of newer Google apps and so far they do their job very well. After loading all the apps I need, the phone is still surprisingly fast (compared to slow GAOSP 2.2).

The limitations of the older OS aren’t that big after all. My phone feels like it’s new and I don’t miss only a few programs that I got used to with the ‘enhanced’ phone.


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