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Thursday, 25 September 2014
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Reminder: Samsung Galaxy Note 4 pre-orders open from today
As announced by T-Mobile a few days back, the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is now available to pre-order for delivery by October 17. It costs $749 full retail, or $0 down and $31.24 per month on EIP.
In my eyes, Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is easily the best looking, and best-built Samsung device on the market. Perhaps the best Samsung device ever. And as someone who traditionally isn’t impressed by Sammy, that’s high praise. The metal frame and soft-touch back combine perfectly to give you a device that not only feels sturdy and durable, but comfortable too. And that QuadHD display blows the LG G3 out of the water in terms of color accuracy and sharpness. It’s Fantastic.
Important feature of Samsung Galaxy Note 4:
l Dive into a brilliant 5.7" Quad HD Super AMOLED® display
l Do more with the most instinctive and precise S Pen™ ever
l 16 Megapixel Camera 16 Megapixel Camera with Optical Image Stabilization (OIS)
l Take selfies to new heights with a 3.7MP "touch-free" front-facing camera
l Get more than ever out of your battery with Ultra Power Saving Mode and Adaptive Fast Charging technology
“T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 4 pre-orders will actually ship on October 17th when the device launches nationwide. Are you pre-ordering a Note 4, or has Apple got your money this year?
Head on over to the Galaxy Note 4 product page to pre-order.
Understanding Google Accounts
This article is about Google accounts: what they are- and aren't, how to access them, and what the account-names look like.
Once upon a time (pre 2006), there was a website on the internet called Blogger. People created an account on Blogger, and then used it to make a blog - which was owned by their Blogger account.
Then Google (the company that made the search engine) purchased Blogger. They wanted to integrate their products, so Blogger users had to change their original Blogger accounts to "Google accounts", which still had a Blogger profile. Google were pretty nice about this: they kept support old, unconverted Blogger accounts up til 2011, but eventually said that no more conversions were possible.
At the time, very few people understood the difference between Google-the-company and Google-the-search-engine, so most didn't have any idea of the power and importance of these "Google accounts". However as the other applications available through Gaoogle accounts grew (Gmail, Picasa-web-albums, Google-custom-maps, AdSense, AdWords, etc), this became clearer.
In mid/late 2011, Google introduced Google+, which is a social-networking and identity service. Originally, G+ accounts required people to use their real names, which some Bloggers didn't want to do. But this policy was gradually weakened:
Blogger / Google profiles can be converted into Google+ accounts.
Or they can be left as normal Google accounts (which are sometimes called "Google Minus" or "G-" accounts).
You then have to provide a a few details - note though you have to give a first name and last name, these don't need to be your real names any more.
These days, by default, new accounts are Google+ accounts - but you can opt out of this during the sign-up process if you want. If you do this, you won't have access to all Google's features (eg Google+ Photos) - but you will have everything you need to use Blogger.
However it is possible to have an account name that is simply a text-string that looks like an email address.
For a long time Google didn't even check if there was a valid email account with that address at the time you signed up This has changed now: Google warn you that they will send an email message to the account that you give, to verify that you own it, and that you won't have full use of the account until it is verified.
However, even today, if a Google account was created some time ago, you cannot guarantee that the person who owns a Google account still owns - or indeed ever owned - the email-address with the same name.
This means there are Google accounts called Joe.blogs@yahoo.com, and similar. And there are even Google accounts with a name that is not, and never has been, a real email address.
Some of the confusion and problems:
Giving a Google+ Page its own loginID and password
Understanding Google Apps accounts
Fixing conflicting Google and Google Apps accounts
AdSense and AdWords - understanding the difference.
Blogger, Google and Google+ accounts
Then Google (the company that made the search engine) purchased Blogger. They wanted to integrate their products, so Blogger users had to change their original Blogger accounts to "Google accounts", which still had a Blogger profile. Google were pretty nice about this: they kept support old, unconverted Blogger accounts up til 2011, but eventually said that no more conversions were possible.
At the time, very few people understood the difference between Google-the-company and Google-the-search-engine, so most didn't have any idea of the power and importance of these "Google accounts". However as the other applications available through Gaoogle accounts grew (Gmail, Picasa-web-albums, Google-custom-maps, AdSense, AdWords, etc), this became clearer.
In mid/late 2011, Google introduced Google+, which is a social-networking and identity service. Originally, G+ accounts required people to use their real names, which some Bloggers didn't want to do. But this policy was gradually weakened:
- Since early 2013 it has been possible to give a Google+ Page its own loginID and password - effectively making it a stand-alone G+ account,
- In mid 2014 Google announced that real-names were no longer required.
Blogger / Google profiles can be converted into Google+ accounts.
Or they can be left as normal Google accounts (which are sometimes called "Google Minus" or "G-" accounts).
Getting a Google account
To make a new Google account, you just have to use the Create an Account link near the bottom of the account-selection list on the login-page of any product that Google offers (Gmail, Blogger, AdSense, etc).You then have to provide a a few details - note though you have to give a first name and last name, these don't need to be your real names any more.
These days, by default, new accounts are Google+ accounts - but you can opt out of this during the sign-up process if you want. If you do this, you won't have access to all Google's features (eg Google+ Photos) - but you will have everything you need to use Blogger.
Account names look like email address
Google account names always look like email addresses, ie they are of the form:willy.worm@yourMail.comIf the product that you sign up with is Gmail (which is where Google accounts started, I think), then this makes sense.
However it is possible to have an account name that is simply a text-string that looks like an email address.
For a long time Google didn't even check if there was a valid email account with that address at the time you signed up This has changed now: Google warn you that they will send an email message to the account that you give, to verify that you own it, and that you won't have full use of the account until it is verified.
However, even today, if a Google account was created some time ago, you cannot guarantee that the person who owns a Google account still owns - or indeed ever owned - the email-address with the same name.
This means there are Google accounts called Joe.blogs@yahoo.com, and similar. And there are even Google accounts with a name that is not, and never has been, a real email address.
Some of the confusion and problems:
- If the email address isn't a gmail one, then changing the password of the email doesn't change the password of the Google account
- Some people don't understand that their Google account name is just a set of letters: they don't realise that they can change the email address attached to their account without changing the underlying account (Dashboard > Edit Profile, identity tab).
- Some people lost access to the email address (eg because they leave their job, or use a free service and didn't log on for 30 or 60 or however-many day).
- Some people never had access to the email address, because they used a text-string that wasn't actually an address, and previously Google never checked if non-Gmail addresses actually worked.
Related Articles:
Blogs, Blogger and Bloggers, Google Inc vs google - some basic termsGiving a Google+ Page its own loginID and password
Understanding Google Apps accounts
Fixing conflicting Google and Google Apps accounts
AdSense and AdWords - understanding the difference.
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Moving some posts from one blog to another
This article is about how to copy some of the posts from one Blogger blog to another.
Previously, I've written about
They are in separate articles because the techniques used are quite different in each case.
If you only want to transfer some posts between two blogs, then you need to choose between:
Before you start, decide what should happen to any posts that are already in the destination blog: if you want to delete them, you need to do it from the Posting / Edit Posts tab (press the delete link beside each one). Don't just delete the enter blog (from the Settings / Basics tab), because that will remove your access to the URL.
You need to estimate the time needed for each option, ie
And then choose the smallest one.
Except - you may like to figure in the chance of making a mistake, or of wanting to make small changes to come posts along the way. Possibly you need to consider which approach you're most comfortable with - so it may not even be about maths at all!
Either way, remember that Pages (see The Difference between Posts and Pages) in the first blog, need to be moved individually because they aren't currently included in the export file.
Moving individual posts, or pages, from one blog to another
Converting Posts into Pages
The Difference between Posts and Pages
Previously, I've written about
- moving individual posts, or pages, from one blog to another and
- moving all posts from one blog to another.
They are in separate articles because the techniques used are quite different in each case.
If you only want to transfer some posts between two blogs, then you need to choose between:
- Moving each post individually,or
- Moving all the posts then and deleting the ones you don't want from the "new" blog.
Before you start, decide what should happen to any posts that are already in the destination blog: if you want to delete them, you need to do it from the Posting / Edit Posts tab (press the delete link beside each one). Don't just delete the enter blog (from the Settings / Basics tab), because that will remove your access to the URL.
How to decide
Choosing whether to most post individually, or moving all of them is firstly about maths.You need to estimate the time needed for each option, ie
- Time to move a post individually, multiplied by the number of posts to be moved
- Time to export and import, plus (time to delete a post times the number of posts that will need to be deleted).
And then choose the smallest one.
Except - you may like to figure in the chance of making a mistake, or of wanting to make small changes to come posts along the way. Possibly you need to consider which approach you're most comfortable with - so it may not even be about maths at all!
Either way, remember that Pages (see The Difference between Posts and Pages) in the first blog, need to be moved individually because they aren't currently included in the export file.
Related Articles
Moving all posts from one blog to anotherMoving individual posts, or pages, from one blog to another
Converting Posts into Pages
The Difference between Posts and Pages
Citadel makes big promises
There's a new big remake effort a-brewing in the Free Software world, this time for prominent shooter/RPG, System Shock. under the shape of project Citadel. According to project description, the goal is to recreate the original game using the widely known GPLed platform Darkplaces Engine, upgrading the game's graphics to full 3D but keeping game aesthetics close to the origianl game. Added modding capabilities and cooperative multiplayer will also be a part of the project.
Details, however, are somewhat scarce, so far, as development is happening behind closed doors, and creator Josiah Jack just announced the existence of the project itself after months of programming in secret. While the code will certainly be all GPL or GPL-compatible due to Darkplaces licensing requirements, the game appears to rely on original proprietary assets, as well as using its own whose license nature is yet to be disclosed.
With a release date planned for the the 23rd of December, System Shock's CD release anniversary, I guess we'll have to wait and see if this project will deliver.
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