By Giedrius on July 29, 2010
I am a happy owner of Nexus One, though I have written about some quirks in the past. Now it is time to discuss one problem deeper: common software availability outside USA and couple other lucky countries. And the worst of it is that it affects software, that comes preinstalled in our phones. For example, [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Android, google maps |
By Giedrius on July 8, 2010
I have written about Ndrive in the past. It is one of the best available navigations for your Android phone outside USA and “lucky 11″ (countries, from which google accepts payments in their Android Marketplace). Most of other map software processes payments through google market thus they are not available in most of the countries. [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Android, ndrive |
By Giedrius on April 6, 2010
Recently I had to buy a new router for my apartment. My old router Speedtouch was rebooting constantly when third wireless device connected to it. After some testing, my theory is that it cannot handle lot of concurrent connections at the same time. For router, I have picked Asus RT-N16 router. The key features that [...]
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By Giedrius on March 24, 2010
NDrive is a Portuguese GPS navigation software with Android version available in Android Market. It can be downloaded for free, also there is 7 day free trial for all of the maps. Ndrive Installation is quite straightforward. One downloads application from Android Market, and then selects maps one needs. I would recommend downloading maps using [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged Android, ndrive |
By Giedrius on March 12, 2010
I am using my Google Nexus one for one month already, so I got quite used to it. I would not change it to Iphone (at least not to any existing model), nor I would change it to Symbian/Windows mobile or other smartphone. At the moment I am Android convert, and there are reasons for [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged nexus one |
By Giedrius on February 10, 2010
Recently I got new dell XPS 16 with I7 processor. I am really happy with it ( I guess a post comming soon), however I want address a problem I had to solve. You see, each time I scroll or type something, my PC froze for couple secs each 10-20 sec apart. The drivers were [...]
Posted in Reviews | Tagged mcafee |
By Giedrius on February 4, 2010
I had received my brand new Google nexus one finally! As it is not available here, I had to buy it through ebay and send it by post. I had additional week to wait because of slow postal service here – they had to send information to customs and so on. I haven’t replaced my last [...]
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By Giedrius on January 28, 2010
Slow PC Fighter is a registry cleaner from same family as Spam Fighter or Virus Fighter. Registry cleaners allow fixing errors and inconsistencies in PC’s registry making PC boot and operate a bit faster. Many of them are made by security companies. Slow PC Fighter website claims that running Slow PCFighter will increase PC speed [...]
Posted in Reviews, Security |
By Giedrius on January 15, 2010
I have to distribute a mailing list of circa 150 000 email clients and wondered what alternatives I have to in-house system. This has lead to some research of various options for mailing customers. First there are 3 types of software I might use: web-based services, server based newsletter/mass mailing applications and PC software. web-based [...]
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