Android : Avoid media to be scanned

30 December 2013 in Android, Hi-Tech

On android, you may need some folder to no being indexed. It could be photos or videos… To do so, use a ES Explorer for example and a ‘.nomedia’ file inside the desired folder. No index will be done in that folder. I like to do it when I temporary add TV series and don’t want them to be indexed. By this way I don’t see them in the Gallery application for example.

Nexus 5 today :-)

14 November 2013 in Android, Hi-Tech

I’m happy to receive the new Nexus 5 today. I love the Nexus 4 but…do not have enough space on it, even with the 16G version. So I have bought the 32G and will be happy to get the photo stabilizer. Those are the major enhancement that makes me take the new Nexus. I’m waiting the Cyanogen ROM to get all advanced features I like and hope it will be available soon.

Selfoss : An elegant RSS reader

19 June 2013 in Android, Debian, Hi-Tech, Linux, Web

Selfoss is a self-hosted RSS reader solution. It could be compared to Tiny Tiny RSS or Feedly. I liked to test that nice solution. But I’m still staying with Fever, as there is no Android version working with Selfoss (only an old one exist, but doesn’t work) and the web interface is a little bit slow (compared to Fever). I hope this will be better in a short term as this is the most elegant Open Source version I’ve tested for now.

My Android Applications

9 June 2013 in Android, Others

Since I’m an Android user, I try to find all apps that daily helps me. As I’ve spent several hours to test and configure them, I would like to share my experience with other peoples that want to switch from iOS like me. First of all, you need advanced features if you are a poweruser. So get root privileges. Then install a mod like CyanogenMod. It will gives you more features to fine tune battery, CPU etc…

Google had me : switching from iOS to Android

7 June 2013 in Android, Hi-Tech, iPhone

I’ve wrote several posts on this blog since 2 years while trying to switch from iOS to Android. The first time I tried, I was on a 2.x version of Android and a lot of missing features didn’t helped me to switch. My cell phone was a Samsung Galaxy S2 and I really can’t stand on Samsung Touchwizz layer. That why I decided to install a Mod called Cyanogen (you’ve certainly already have heard of this).

Android…nan toujours pas !

17 August 2012 in Android, Hi-Tech, Others, Private life

Avec la sortie de la cyanogen 9 stable, j’ai mis à jour mon Samsung Galaxy S2 et ai voulu squeezer temporairement mon iPhone. C’est stable, je n’ai pas encore vu de bugs. De grosses améliorations ont été apportées par rapport à la version précédente. C’est bourré de gadget plus Geek les uns que les autres, mais tout comme la dernière fois, je regrette qu’il n’y ai pas nativement : Des pastilles sur les applications pour savoir combien de mails non lu, SMS, etc… (se corrige avec Go Notifier) La lisibilité des mails est pitoyable sur le client de base et aucun autre ne m’a vraiment convaincu.

De retour sur iPhone

26 July 2011 in Android, Hi-Tech, iPhone

Back to iPhone ! Je n’en pouvait plus d’Android ! C’est pourtant bien, mais trop loin du confort de l’iOS ! Alors oui, je vais peut être me faire jeter des tomates, oui, je vais me faire siffler ! Mais c’est comme ça ! Le côté gris de la force m’attire (noir étant Microsoft). Android 3 (la version tablette) est tellement plus sexy que la version téléphone. Je me demande ce que Google fait ?