Archives: August 2011

Galaxy Tab 7"

I finally got a Galaxy Tab 7" and start playing with it. It's a nice tab, small enough to be handled using one hand, and big enough to easily browse web pages or access servers over RDP. But... Yes, there's a "but". After two days of use, I changed my mind about 7" or 10 ". The size matter, and the size is related to the use you'll do of your device. For business and traveling, I think the 7" is more suitable. Small enough to be carried around easily, and the weight doesn't matter too much

Does Android need Antivirus?

In last months on the App Stores (oops... hope Apple didn't mind I used that copyrighted/patented/reserved word!) the Antivirus apps for Android are proliferating. Everyone wants it, just to install and then recognize it slow down so much his droid to make it far less usable than before. But droids really need antivirus?   Actually android virus are very few, cannot widespread as Windows ones, and cannot do much damage to your phone if you don't allow it, giving them superuser permissions on a

Emergency Droid

Today I got a phone call from work (I'm in holiday). It seemed no one was able to run the sorveillance software and export a recording (bah...). The nice part was that I was finally able to test my phone for what it was bought for - and never managed to do with WM6 on it - remote access our servers from it. The hardware on HD2 is quite good, enough to run a decent remote desktop and a SSH session. The main problem I had on WM6 was finding a OpenVPN client, a decent RDP application, and most of