Accessing files on a Samsung Galaxy Note through USB
I have been using a Samsung Galaxy Note smart phone for months and never experienced any real problems with it. Because of that I got bold, rooted it and installed a nightly build of CyanogenMod on it....
View ArticleMore on BitTorrent Sync
Following up on my post on BitTorrent Sync here is some more information and use cases. There is at least one alternative to BitTorrent Sync that is open source: Seafile is a cloud service. I have only...
View Article“Insufficient Storage Available” and “Unfortunately android keyboard has...
Yesterday, all of a sudden my smartphone (a Samsung Galaxy Note N7000) started to misbehave. The first thing I noticed was that the battery was down to This morning I wanted to put it back into my...
View ArticleSegmentation fault on startup in Delphi XE6 Firemonkey application for Android
After I attended the Delphi Power Workshop on mobile development with Delphi XE6 in Essen last week, the mobile development virus has taken hold of me. So I tried successfully to compile the demo apps...
View ArticleIf your OnePlus One won’t turn on but only vibrates
Note to self: If your OnePlus One smartphone won’t turn on but only vibrates for a short time when you press the power button, that probably means the battery is dead. If it has already been on the...
View ArticleSyncThing as an alternative to BitTorrentSync (btsync)
A while ago I blogged about using BitTorrentSync as a privacy conscious alternative to the more popular cloud services like Google Drive or DropBox. BitTorrent recently released btsync version 2 which,...
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Denkzettel a simple note taking program
Denkzettel is a simple Android app by Silvio Schurig for writing notes as text files and organizing them into categories (= subdirectories) on an Android smart phone. It can also use these files as...
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SyncThing for Android
I blogged about SyncThing before, when BitTorrentSync started to annoy the hell out of me. SyncThing is an open source tool for synchronizing directory trees between different devices without requiring...
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USB tethering a OnePlus One phone to Windows XP
For whatever reason my old Windows XP netbook doesn’t connect to our holiday flat’s WIFI while my OnePlus One Android phone does. So I thought I’d simply tether it to the Netbook via USB to get around...
View ArticleDeltaChat Messenger
DeltaChat is a messenger that uses email as the transport medium, so potentially almost everybody already has an account for it. Today, a they announced a new release, not only for the existing...
View ArticleDelta Chat is now available in Google Play
Delta Chat, a chat program that uses e-mail as the transport protocol and supports end to end encryption, is now available in the beta channel of Google Play. If you are already using an older...
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