Category: Computing

  • iOS: Android and Back Again

    iOS: Android and Back Again

    So, I had a whole two paragraphs (!) complaining about my much-maligned Galaxy S2‘s shocking-poor battery life, the evil manufacturers bastardisation of Android, the irritating prevalence of ads on the platform and in apps, and the absence of reasonably-sized, non-bastardised Android phones (and the even smaller subset of devices I can even buy in Australia:…

  • Export from Instagram with EXIF data?

    Export from Instagram with EXIF data?

    I really wanted to export the square, over-filtered versions of my Instagram photos and I wanted the EXIF data intact. While attempting this, I found that, for some reason, Instagram deletes all of the EXIF data from these square, over-filtered photos. While the orignal rectangular and uncorrupted photos were saved on the phone, I *really* wanted the broken…

  • Phones

    Phones

    So, a couple weeks ago I got a couple of new phones: a Galaxy S2 and an iPhone 5. This pair is replacing the Nexus S and the HTC Legend. Why a Galaxy S2? Isn’t there an S3 and an S4 out there? Yes, and here’s why I got the S2. First, I really like my…