Pioneer offers a number of AV receivers with network connection which can be controlled using an app for Android or iOS, as for example the VSX-529, VSX-921, VSX-1021. The complete list can be found in the description of the apps for the receivers, like iControlAV2 or iControlAV5.
Raymond Julin found out that the interface used for these apps can be accessed very easily using telnet since the protocol is quite simple.
If you use “Premiere Elements 13” by Adobe, you may know the effect that an error message about a missing disk in drive \Device\Harddisk1\DR1 is displayed (“no disk”) when starting the video editor (shown here is the German message, but the English one is similar):
If you carefully look at the articles on my website you might notice that I use “typographic” quotes, ellipses (…) and dashes (–) as well as the inch sign ″. Generally WordPress (as DokuWiki as well) can generate such characters automatically by doing replacements in the source text according to several rules – however this does not work properly in some cases as shown in the bug #8775 in the WordPress bug tracker. Without additional customizations by a plugin or an additional function in the theme quotes are also only created in the form which is common for English text (“…” instead of „…“ in German). Therefore I prefer to type these characters directly in the text.
When you turn off the device without setting the volume to “silent” it will play a short melody together with the Samsung boot animation when turning it on again (on some other devices this will occur always independent of any volume setting).
If the device is rooted you can just rename the relevant OGG file to disable this.
Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini provides a mechanical home key. This key also wakes the device up when it is in standby mode, identical to the power key. Sometimes you may not want this feature.
In this article I describe some improvement opportunities for the Xperia sola.
