A while ago I was doing a technical comparison between what I consider to be the main Android mobile contenders on the market at the moment: Acer Liquid, Motorola Milestone (Droid) and HTC’s Google Nexus. I am rebounding with this post in order to supply some hard facts in a comparison table: continue reading…
Every now and then I like to take on a new thing in order to expand my professional horizon. The latest thing that got my attention was the Android OS developed by Google, the system that slowly but surely eats away at Apple’s iPhone. Personally I’m pretty sure that soon Android will have overtaken the iPhone OS but this is beside the scope of this post.
This post is dedicated to my first frustration as a beginner in Android: mainly, the lack of good tutorials. Mind you, I am only a beginner in Android as a platform, while in Java I have a fair amount of experience. To my consternation, I have recently discovered that not even Google’s own tutorials are good material for beginning Android development. Take, for example, this tutorial, the second step in the Notepad tutorial by Google. Take this code for example: continue reading…
As all of us Wordpress users know that the Wordpress CMS offers the possibility to export your entire blog, or parts of it. The predefined filter in the Wordpress administration area allows you to select the posts of a certain user (as well as related information such as categories, tags and comments) and export them for the purpose of backup or moving them to another Wordpress blog (or any other blog that reads the XML format Wordpress uses).
However, it is not rarely that one may need other options to filter the posts they want to export (such as by categories or tags). So what can you do then? continue reading…
So here we have, right from the CEO’s mouth: Acer pushes a quick follow up to the Acer Liquid A100 with their new and somewhat improved smartphone Acer Liquid E. If you’re really interested, you will find below the full contents of the communique from Acer, but I will give you the rundown of the acclaimed new (more or less) features and why this is more like a bad move from Acer. continue reading…
As one can clearly notice, my blog has suffered a change. But this change is not merely in looks (after giving up my own original Wordpress theme and replacing it with a third-party free Wordpress theme), it is also in content. Since last week, I decided to move all my fantasy, magic and literary works on to my other domain (raistlin.eu), which has stood unused for quite some time now.
Instead, this site will focus more on technology, politics and web development, in an attempt to share more of my experience as a web developer and quiet observer of the world around.
Coming soon, I will have a short series of articles on Wordpress, object-oriented programming in PHP5 as well as reviews of some of the newer gadgets that I managed to lay my hands on.
So stay tuned and don’t forget to also check out my new fantasy blog, if you feel like taking a break from the real world!
There comes a time in one’s life when one must answer difficult questions. If there is one thing I don’t like about Google’s Android operating system for mobile platforms is the fact that it forces me to answer tough questions. I have tried to look for the answer in this table, however the answer lies deeper than that.
One of these questions is which phone is better among the three? I’ve been pondering this for a while and I still have no definitive answer. Frankly, after weeks of research, I am only close to taking Motorola Milestone out of the race. I know many people out there will suggest I take out the Acer … but I won’t.
Now let me explain. continue reading…
update: here is a link showcasing Acer Liquid’s photo camera capabilities. All the photos were taken and then simply uploaded through the phone’s Picasa. The photo test went pretty well and as you can see the camera is above average under proper lighting.
It’s been more than a week since I’ve had my new phone, the Acer Liquid. Like I mentioned in a previous post, I had been inclining towards Acer’s smartphone (the Acer Liquid) despite competition from Motorola Milestone and HTC’s Google Nexus. The choice was made mostly due to the more than reasonable pricing of the Acer Liquid as well as better battery life.
Since battery life and virtual keyboard responsiveness have been issues of debate among reviewers, I will draw a line from the start and say that Acer Liquid’s battery life is better than Nexus and the Milestone, but only in the Asia (AAP) version of the phone.Also, the AAP version of the firmware has a great virtual keyboard. The European and American versions of the phone (EMEA), have an atrocious battery life and a horrible responsiveness of the virtual keyboard. continue reading…
A short while ago I was opposing’s Microsoft’s outrageous claims about IE8 versus the other browsers. Now, I come back with an updated result on the ACID 3 W3C standards compliance test: continue reading…
Although Google’s Android operating system was unveiled in 2007, it took over a year for the first Android device (the Motorola Droid high-end smartphone) to reach the market, in October 2008. By that time, the touchscreen euphoria started by Apple with its iPhone device, was peaking and gaining market share while giants like Nokia were sleeping. continue reading…
I was looking around the information superhighway for some newer security test cases against the newest browsers and I came across this piece of information. Microsoft’s “get the facts” campaign is one of the poorest attempts at getting back its tarnished pride. Sure, sub-standard products like the Windows Millenium, Vista, IE6 and IE7 have done a great deal of harm, allowing the competition to get ahead.
Internet Explorer 6’s aging engine allowed Firefox and Opera to gain momentum while Windows Vista provided a kick for Apple OS X and Linux Ubuntu, the first one gaining 2% market share, jumping from 3% to 5% and well beyond. continue reading…
