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Category: Samsung
In this post I’m collecting tech news from all over the web, too small for separate posts, but I guess that everyone is up for a treat with a digest like this!
The Samsung galaxy note 7 catching fire!
Samsung has called a worldwide recall of the smartphone on complaints of catching fire and exploding while charging. So if you got one I recommend you to check with the closest Samsung reseller.
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And tests that involved Galaxy Edge 7 show that it catches fire and explodes as well.
It is so serious that the Australian airlines banned the use of Galaxy Note 7 because it’s a security concern, and the FFA warns the passengers not to use the phone on planes.
Apache Openoffice maybe put to rest!
The project may be put to rest due to lack of volunteers working on it, as most of them moved to to work on LibreOffice in 2011.
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Apache open office has been very slow in development and the last stable update was issued in October of 2015. Bug fixes weren’t issued and the developers fear a major denial of service attack, and Apache’s advice was to use Microsoft office or convert to LibreOffice!
This comes as a shock for many people, Apache open office has a big user base of over 100 million users, I’m sure many people will be upset over this. Personally I had a pleasant experience using Apache Openoffice, and conventing wasn’t the easiest call to make. I hope someone stands for Apache Openoffice and saves it from a horrible feat, and maybe change the Apache license and give it more code freedom!
Whatsapp users will be receiving advertising messages
WhatsApp will start sending advertising messages in the following months, as it shares its data with the parent company facebook, raising high security concerns, I personally advise moving to Telegram for a secure texting experience, I’ve blogged about this as soon as it happened, but it doesn’t hurt to inform the people of the potential security risk.
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Those who share your data today will sell it tomorrow!
iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 plus are released
Apple has released the highly anticipated iPhone 7 recently, while the iPhone 7 still keeps the 4.7′ screen size that iPhone 6 had, the iPhone 7 plus will have a 5.5′ screen, an Apple first, and will be running on iOS 10.
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Apple has doubled the internal storage space on iPhone 7 and 7 plus, but no SD slot available in this model too, and no battery capacity information was released yet (as long as it doesn’t blow up, it’s fine by us!).
The latest iPhone is also water resistant, a delight to Apple fans worldwide in case thier phone falls into their overly priced mocha latte!
Google Fuchsia
Google has added a new project to github the leading open source code repository code named Fuchsia.
a little is known about this project as of now, but there are reasons to think that it’s the new operating system that Google is developing to ditch android and the Linux kernel altogether, and to install it on a wide range of devices and wearables.
Yahoo announces the biggest security breach so far
In the latest trend of major companies announcing security breaches, Yahoo said that a breach affected the data of 500 million users, making it the biggest security breach to be announced so far.
I hope you enjoyed this tech digest of news, please let me know what do you think of this bit? Should it become a regular post on my blog? I will add more news as needed to this digest.
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After updating a Samsung I9082 (Grand) from 4.1.2 to 4.2.2 it became much slower and restarted often. A factory reset was due. Even after the reset the phone was incredibly slow.
It remained slow and buggy for a while, until I needed to wipe some files for security. I noticed it became much faster after wiping the free space!
What is wiping free space?
Wiping free space is deleting the deleted files that could be restored by recovery software. It’s used to keep privacy and ensures data doesn’t fall in the wrong hands in case the phone is lost, stolen or even in the case of selling it.
What tools to use?
There are several tools available in the Google store to wipe the free space.
Andro shredder is one of them, it deletes files permanently and wipes free space too.
Sceure Wipe is another popular tool.
Wiping free space doesn’t cause data loss and it securely deletes data.
Did this fix work for you? Did you test it on other models? Please let me know what you think in the comments section below.
Hey there you guys!
How are you today? I hope you are doing good!
As I am writing this. You will see a lot of “feel” and “felt” being thrown around. It’s that much devotion I have to my writing. I haven’t really used any tools to benchmark the performance. All I used was my “feeling” and of course. Loading times, shall we?
In case you missed it. I like many others, dual-boot. Which means I use two operating systems on my computer. Why I do that you ask? Please refer to my dual-boot path for more.
Now I happen to use most of the software I have on both systems. And what I have noticed is: It runs so much better and a lot smoother on Linux than it does on Windows!!
Atom takes 18.7 seconds to load on Windows. Linux, 3 seconds!
Gimp takes 30 seconds to load on Windows, Linux 10 seconds (With many plug-ins and effects!).
LibreOffice crashes on Windows often. Very smooth on Linux!
And as I said in the dual-boot path. Windows loads slower. Takes up a lot more resources. Crashes more often. Filled with problems and prone to viruses!
How is it possible that Windows is the most popular operating system on earth?
Closed source
It’s closed sourced. How do you know what does what exactly? How much of the space is actually used to serve your needs. And what is the rest doing?
Windows is a black box. You buy it as it is. You know what it does but not how it does it. Get this. I don’t think it’s doing it very well.
Windows has matured into a heavy, recourse hungry beast. Whom it’s only purpose is to suck and drain every drop of your pocket. And keep you in need for them.
I don’t feel like the computer is dying just to keep the computer on. Or that powering up is an achievement to be celebrated with several minutes of silence and unresponsiveness. My computer is OK. But Windows expects you to update to a new computer every 10 days or so!
Android is not free
And please don’t say you are an Android person, and since Android is already Linux that means you are all for open source. Android has put more money in Microsoft’s pocket than Windows mobile. Five times that is!
More money than Skype, Windows phone and Xbox combined. And the reason is Samsung -_-
I do feel that Windows is forced and over bloated. Not with features. But with crap!
Linux is “Cancer”
Have you seen the licenses lately? They offer you basic usage rights as professional. And then put an oversized price tag on it! And call it theirs!!
They prefer you use hacked software than you using Linux! They think it’s cancer. I think Windows is the real cancer.
If I need to occupy 20 Gigabytes of my HDD and need to have a Core I3, 4GB Ram just to open my files. Then we have a serious problem here, Microsoft!!
It’s consuming. It’s useless. And it’s ugly (have you used Windows 8 before?)
You might take from this that I hate. Well I don’t. I respect all code. And think that paying for code is a healthy practice.
I’m against monopoly and taking advantage of people. And piracy is never a solution.
To be continued ..!How did you like this post? Did you find it useful? Please comment below and let me hear what you have in mind.
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