A week has past and we have seen every site of the technology blogosphere having its article about the best smartphone of the moment. The two contenders: the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S4.
First let's start by the common, those two phone have 1080 screens and the exact same CPU (a quad core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600). I know the S4 also exist in an octo-core version but I will only talk here about the US variant of the phones, the ones I could actually try and play with.
The two phones are huge, 4.7 inches of the one against a 5" for the S4 and if you want to compare the PPI (pix... Read More
For a very long time now, I have been looking for cloud solutions that would allow me to not only store my files on the Cloud but also synchronize several machines together in a secure and trustful way.
Of course, there are a lot of different solutions: SugarSync, DropBox, Google Drive, Microsoft Skydrive to name only the most famous. I believe I tried them all but let's be honest, I never store private information on any of those solutions, no picture of my family, no personal document that could compromise my personal life...
Still those tools were convenient, simple client and configu... Read More
As you know every way is good for marketing companies to track you and learn about your habits, what you like, what you eat, where you shop and how much you spend. So far they were doing that using the keywords you were using to browse the web, the sites you were visiting or your credit card behavior.But thanks to Euclid Analytics, there is now a way to track you within stores using the wifi hotspots and your phone (but only if the wifi is on), here is how.
As you probably already know, every network card in the world has a unique ID, the Media Access Control address (MAC address) and so n... Read More
Welcome to a World where nothing make sense, to a world where you can say everything you want under the first amendment but where you can not criticize the food industry, a world where you can not show a woman's breast but that own the biggest porn industry in the world, a world where they take a picture of you and scan your finger prints when you enter the country in the name of "security" but where you can buy a riffle in any Sporting Goods store and a world where unlocking your phone to use it on any carrier can cost you a million bucks! Welcome to the United States of America!
The DMCA ... Read More
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OsiMood | 30-Jan-2013
Microsoft Surface is out fr a few months now. It is the first incursion from Microsoft in the PC hardware world and I have to admit I was expecting a lot for this product on both, the hardware and the software.
Let's start by talking about the hardware. The concept envisioned by Microsoft is quite simple and very appealing: one device that can be your tablet and your laptop, all in one. I have to admit, I love the idea even if this concept could/should have been pushed one step forward to also become a desktop once docked (hopefully Dell, HP, Asus or another manufacturer will come with such... Read More
Here I am, in front of the new interface of Windows 8. I love it first, finally an OS that will allow me to have it all, a desktop, a tablet and eventually a phone.
I start playing and after 15 minutes the frustration becomes simply unbearable! You need to re-learn all you knew about windows, how to close an application, how to save a document, how to shutdown your PC and worst of all... how to simply launch an app from the desktop interface.
Don't get me wrong, I believe Microsoft did a good choice integrating 2 different interfaces but you should be able to launch applications from any of ... Read More
Advertisements on every platform are the main source of revenue for developers, and if you have unlimited data, maybe you should just stop ready this article. The problem is, my data plan is NOT unlimited and I don't really understand why I should pay to be serve with unwanted content.
The reason I prefer to pay for a service like Nexflix or Hulu to watch TV instead of paying TimeWarner or Optimum or any oter TV company is simply that is I pay for a service, I do want to have straight access to the content and not waste my time waiting for a TV show while advertisements are trying to sell m... Read More
Being an IT professional but also i must admit, a geek, I am always asked the same question when comes the time for them to buy a phone or a tablet, what should I buy? Android? iPhone? Anything else?
Unfortunately my answer is always the same, it depends!! Let's be clear, I personally prefer Android for reasons that I will try to explain but my personal preferences do not have to fit all and it does not.
Would you ask anybody around you what shoes you should buy? or what coat? I don't. For mobile devices it is the same and nearly the same questions you have to ask yourself:
How much ... Read More
The page 404 is very well know from people browsing the web, this code is used to describe a page not found. No relevant information here, it just let the user know that his request is not accessible. Some site like this one, use to personalize them in order to show something more than just an error message.
But thanks to the European NGOs Missing Children Europe and Child Focus, the project NotFound wants to use those pages to publish a missing child picture.
This project is open for every site that wants to help, the only thing you have to do is include an iFrame in your 404 page.
T... Read More
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OsiMood | 26-Sep-2012
Not a day goes by without hearing from a patent law suit and more precisely one where Apple is not suing an Android manufacturer for being copied.
HTC, Motorola, Samsung are just the biggest having to fight a competitor that obviously does not like competition. The problem here is that Samsung had several products banned to “copy” the design of Apple’s product. Yes, it seems judges believe that Apple invented the black rectangle with rounded corners…
Ironic, that what we could say looking at early prototypes of the iPhone:
Apple engineers did not only copy the Sony design, the... Read More
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OsiMood | 27-Jul-2012
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