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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

rigelt chills

zäme!
Mini LieblingsSounds vom Oktober 14. Fröie mi ging huere für ufs Velo mit dene Tunes.
@Steffu > please Stück 1 & 2 lose – si absoluti Perlä!
Genre Chiptune isch ou zwöimau drby ... für die, wo mau 8-bit Sound hei gnossä.
Play all – in fricking 720p please – wär nid add block plus bruucht, isch säuber schuld
Cheers, Thömu
(whole list avail as MP3s & covers & id3 tags at request)

Monday, October 27, 2014

Trekkie Commercials

great commercials - marketing at its best.
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Thursday, October 16, 2014

Android L is here err Android Lollipop is here

hahaha...
watch this funny video from today's silent Android L release.
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Anroid 5.0 aka Lollipop brings: 

new UI called Material Design
finally smarter WiFi connection logic! (most annoying because of free WiFi everywhere!)
5k new APIs for developers
more syncing of app status and history over devices
more filter options for lock screen notifications
multi user support now also available on smartphones
device encryption automatically turned on
USB audio support (USB microphones, speakers and and and)
Support for HVEC > UHD 4k playback out of the box
Tap & go > setup new devices easily by initiating the process via NFC
support for 64-bit HW
battery saving techniques inbuilt (known to Xperia Users as Stamina mode)
Camera raw support
>> check out the full list here

Wow Sony will update their entire Xperia Z line...  >>  blogs.sonymobile.com

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Xperia Z2 impressions

If I'd need to buy a new cell phone today, I would not hesitate a sec and get the Sony Xperia Z2. [uhm update 25.06.14: got the Z2 today ;-)

Why?




The good:

+ great Camera
+ great build quality, waterproof
+ great overall product design
+ "It's a Sony" > everything just works, I was very happy with all my previous Xperia phones.
+ great screen > 5.2" 1920x1080, beware it's not the brightest one
+ stereo speakers
+ excellent battery stamina reported by many users
+ has FM radio, which I use everyday
+ good language support, comes with ISO 8859-11 thai font (see white paper p.13) to many this is way more important than the cpu, Samsung removes some languages and fonts in distant markets, rendering the phone annoyingly unusable for Thais)
+ built in hardware is top notch (same as the other flagship phones)
+ Noise canceling feature indeed works, but makes headphones a tad bit heavier
+ good value for money, CHF 699 (599 in Aug.14)  or €582 launch price

+ good the Android UI hasn't been revamped to the max
+ fancy notification light
+ you can set the display's white balance!
+ the smart band receives good critics and might be interesting to you




the bad:
- Speakers are very very clear when listening to audio, but during calls, the speaker u hold to your ear will "chatter" a bit, so phone conversations won't be very clear! confirmed with a 2nd device. This is the phones biggest minus! Forget about this, speaker sound during calls turned perfectly cristal clear after two weeks! No idea, what happened.

- the noise cancelling head phones do not have a remote button to pick and end phone calls! Very annoying on the bike. Noise canceling does work, but not on the bike, doubles the wind sound :-(  doh
- no IR to directly control your home media
- some folks don't like the touch feeling, when fingers meet the loading dock contacts
- touch feeling at device edges not super smooth due to overlapping frame, to protect the glass. Can't be further described, go and touch the thing in the shop.


Xperia Z2 sample picture. Reduced to 1600px from original 5248x3936 (7.51MB size)

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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Change start time of embedded Youtube videos

Occasionally I want to change the start time of embedded Youtube videos - but then I can't remember how I did it the last time. Of course I google things, but surprisingly only lengthy bla bla answers show up. It's so simple:
Just add the underlined part to the embed code >> starting time in seconds, that's it...

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/PSGySgH411A?start=62" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

just an example:

Sunday, March 02, 2014

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Remote Code Execution flaw affecting Facebook's servers

Every now and then we get to read amazing stories!


Reginaldo Silva nicely explains how he discovered a potential remote code execution bug on Facebook servers. Unbelievable!
Very well written: http://www.ubercomp.com/posts/2014-01-16_facebook_remote_code_execution


Two hours ago Facebook's security team released their side of the story - not less amazing. They awarded Reginaldo the biggest bug bounty payout since the program exists. You all know I quite dislike Facebook, but they responded so fast, it's hard to believe! two thumbs up.