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Showing posts with label google. Show all posts

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Samsung vs Google Calendar

On my Samsung Galaxy S3, I have two calendar applications : Google Calendar and S Planner (S Calendrier in French). Both applications are able to display all phone calendars :
  • My Calendar : To display contact birthdays
  • Samsung calendar
  • Google calendar(s) : your own Google calendar(s) and your contacts'
If you sync these calendars, this will only keep in sync your phone calendars with the various clouds (Google, Samsung, Facebook, etc.). But this will not sync calendars between one another.
Sometimes, Samsung Calendar becomes the default when you create new events. I have seen lots of people on the web looking for ways to import/export from Samsung Calendar to Google, or to sync them...
Once an event is created, AFAIK, it is not possible on my phone to move the event to another calendar.
I have found a solution : with Kies Air opened in your computer browse, you can move events to another calendar.
How to proceed :
  • (phone) Open Samsung Kies Air app
  • (computer) Open Kies Air in your browser : http://phone.ip:8080
  • (computer) Enter PIN displayed on your phone
  • (computer) Open Calendar and edit events to move them to other calendars
HTH

Sunday, March 31, 2013

From Google Reader To Tiny Tiny RSS

In early 2000s, I migrated from FeedReader application to Google Reader. Now it's time to move on, again.
I have chosen Tiny Tiny RSS because :
  • It was in Slashdot comments
  • It has both a Web interface and an Android app
  • It is a very active project
  • I can host it myself (it's not in some cloud)
  • Articles will not be marked read after 30 days
  • I can disable article purge
Hosting
Tiny Tiny RSS works fine with WampServer but I do not allow connections from internet to my local home private network.
I could not use the following web hosting providers :
  • free.fr : no support for PHP 5.3
  • olympe : doc is dead, do not know how to upload files
  • 000webhost : ftp is deadly slow, tt-rss does not work (uname, not writable errors)
  • byethost : dojo not defined error, could not load feeds
  • Toile Libre : dead
I have chosen hostinger :
  • ttrss works ! (PHP 5.3.20 and you can enable PHP 5.4)
  • small .p.ht url suffix
PHP has open_basedir restrictions but :
  • you can use this patch
  • You must use the 'resolved' url once all redirections have been resolved
Sample feeds resolved by firefox :
  • The Daily WTF : http://thedailywtf.com/rss.aspx gives http://syndication.thedailywtf.com/TheDailyWtf
  • PC Inpact : http://www.pcinpact.com/rss/news.xml gives http://pcinpact.com.feedsportal.com/c/35178/f/652880/index.rss
Edit 2013.04.01 : hostinger lets you add cron jobs to update feeds.
Edit 2013.04.11 : 10 days later, I got an official answer from hostinger support saying that cron jobs only support PHP 5.2. Too bad...