I regularly lurk over at XDA since I started -happily- using my HTC HD2 Leo (actually, I just brought it to a collection center for warranty servicing… dead touchscreen, sigh). Since then, I began reading about “funny” practices regarding lithium ion battery usage to prolong their life. Even before that, when I still used older [...]
I was playing with some templating benchmarks in my post before this one, and bumped into an interesting find regarding the way strpos works, and consequently all similar “search (and replace)” functions like str_replace, strrpos, stripos, str_ireplace, substr_replace, even preg_match and preg_replace (I tested only str_replace and preg_match out of these, but I assume they [...]
While working on the website of reecycle.it, il frecycling italiano per il riciclo degli oggetti, I am spending my resources also on reducing at most the load on the Apache server of my italian shared hosting, Tophost, so i decided to make some benchmarks to see which was the best speed I could load the [...]
UPDATE: there is a new article that expands and powers up this idea, you find it here. For a while an old UPS of mine was abandoned in a corner because its battery was long dead and didn’t sustain the load of a PC for even a few seconds; and for a while I’ve been [...]
Maybe I’m posting about nothing new, and if that’s the case, I beg your pardon. Not. ’tis my website and I can write whatever I like. Anyway I just completed the update of Ubuntu to Maverick Meerkat on my laptop, and well, I was trying to get to the desktop with the good old Ctrl-Ald-D [...]
Ah, solar power. The tingly feeling of getting free energy and saving the environment. My HD2, the HTC phone/device I own at the moment, has its own reserve of four batteries to switch in case I need to make an intense use without a mains plug handy, yet I wasn’t satisfied as I didn’t have [...]
Just got tired of how the images inside my posts didn’t get centered, but instead were aligned to the left, even if I had set them to be centered, and they were rendered to inside the WordPress WYSIWYG editor. I use the Arclite theme, which lets you add personalized CSS styles inside the settings, but [...]
HD2, great phone, really. Shame it’s not dualsim, and no wonder there are people wanting to make it work with two different mobile numbers. Same thing did I, and this guide is to recount my findings, especially thanks to the italian member mannyy at XDA forums. First things first: do NOT buy the insanely expensive [...]
Sacrifice was one of the first “decent” games I ever played on my first ever “decent” PC 10 years ago or something. Lately I installed it with Wine under Ubuntu on my Satellite laptop and wanted to revamp an old and undying, clever classic. I went all-Stratos, as I remembered he was the subtle evil [...]
I am not going to argue with you regarding the reasons you may want to record your incoming or outgoing calls, nor how it is illegal or only partially legal in some countries. There are a couple of issues with full duplex phonecall recording on the untouched HD2: the other person’s voice is very faint [...]