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South Corean company Samsung Electronics introduced today its first Android device — smartphone Samsung I7500. The company emphasizes that it's become the fist manufacturer from «the Big Three» which released a mobile phone using Android OS.

Samsung I7500 has 3,2 sensor AMOLED display and support of such telecommunication services as HSDPA 7.2Mbps and WiFi offering the users Internet and Google Mobile access at high speed.

Samsung I7500 provides access to the whole package of Google services including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar и Google Talk. Built-in GPS-navigator allows to use to the fullest extent such Google Maps features as My Location, Google Latitude, Street View, location search, and trailing of a route. Wikitude application provides information about unknown sightseeing places and other places with the help of Wikipedia encyclopaedia.

Samsung I7500 is provided with almost all modern multimedia features. Besides large and bright 3.2“ AMOLED-display, the device has a 5Mp camera supporting a wide variety of videoformats, I7500 offers long-lasting battery life ( accumulator capacity is 1500мАh) and considerable memory span 40Gb (8Gb built-in memory + memory sticks of 32Gb). All these technological solutions are enclosed into slim and compact  body of only 11,9mm depth.

Samsung I7500 will be available in retail chains in most European countries in June 2009.

Maybe my choice will seem trivial to you, but I wanna live there!!!!

What's new in new version of one of the most popular file managers?

Unicode.

TC 7.5 will be supporting unicode almost completely (that may be called the most important change in the upcoming version). Unicode file names will be definitely supported as well (now it is supported through Windows compatibility functions). Unicode will be supported by both FTP-client and all internal TC instruments (e.g. files comparison based on filename). Renewed plugin interfaces wil support unicode as well - there will be 2 functions for all API functions: current and new to wprk with 2bite encodings. You won't have to rewrite existing plugins, and compatibility with previous versions will be excellent. Unicode for built-in ZIP archiver won't be supported. As far as I know specification of this archiver supports only 1bite encodings.
Possible side effect of TC "unicodization" is refusal to support OS Win9x. That makes no worries to the majority of users, but an amazing fact is that Windows 3.x support (16bit OS by the way) was removed only in TC 7.0. And versions with fixed bugs are only released from time to time.

Disk burning

Many users are aware of TCburner plugin (or CD/DVD Burning Plugin), which fulfilled its function of disk burning not that bad. Alternative plugins Complex CDBurner and Neropanel are either not free (the first one), or require Nero installed (the second one correspondingly). It's ok, but the author of TCBurner by some reasons stopped development of this plugin leaving a number of bugs unfixed.
That's why Total Commander 7.5 will have a built-in burning instrument based on that plugin.
On the one hand optical storages have become nonsence with the appearance of cheap and quick flash-memory. On the other hand - sometimes there is still need to burn a CD, but not that often to install special software.
That is the reason this burning instrument is included.

FTP modifications.

Total Commander is not an FTP downloader, it's a file manager. That should become clear to everyone who complains of shortage of such functions as system shutdown after download is complete.
But despite this fact majority of TC users prefer using it as a downloader. For that reason FTP support is improved with every new version.
FTP connections manager will be improved: instead of "flat" list there will be a convenient tree - which gives an opportunity to group connections.
Another improvement concerns security. The problem with TC is that saved FTP passwords are badly encrypted (it's reminded to the user). A couple of viruses used thatvulnerability.
Now the possibility to encrypt all the passwords using "master-password" function will be included. It practically excluded "password recovery" by third party software. Master-password entry will be required when first accessing FTP and before exiting TC.

Improved navigation.

There is rather a disputable novelty: possibility to include additional panels with tree catalogues (approximately as it's implemented in Windoes Explorer). It was supposed to attractnre TC users, but the majority of old users don't see any advantages of this function. Nevertheless separate tree catalogues will be improved as well: functions for file management will be added and improved (instant renaming, complete Drag'n'Drop, copypaste and so on) + possibilities for tree navigation are are also improved (tree expansion/collapse when pressing the space button or holding cursor over the junction)).
It's hard to say if these improvements will be taken by users seriously, but there is one that is very useful.
That is so called breadcrumb - navigation bar of Windows Vista style (fall-down menu with a list of subsidiary catalogues). It'll substitute for current bar with name of the catalogue, all its functions will be preserved.

That's not all possible modifications. There will definitely be more, and we'll have a chance to check them.

The event we've been waiting for so long has happened at last. Android developers have released pre-final version of SDK 1.5 (Cupcake). There is a huge amount of changes (API to work with soft-keyboard, creation of home-vidgets, speech recognition and so called "live" folders).
Complete list of changes can be looked at here. And SDK itself can be downloaded over here. And don't forget to read installation instructions for your old projects :) Final version of SDK is announced to be released at the end of April, precisely by the HTC Magic release.
That's great that Google laid it out before the actual version appeared in the devices. Developers have some time to rework their old projects and complete new ones :)

Today I'd like to dwell on the difference between these two most popular scripting languages (PHP and ASP.net), so that to help you choose the one you like most.
In first column the criteria are stated.
 

Compare PHP and ASP.net

	PHP	ASP.net
Cost	Open Source, readily available (you can be using it today)	Not open source, developed and marketed by Microsoft
Security	As other scripting languages, is open to security flaws due to unimplemented or unknown vulnerabilities, takes a bit more caution.	You will really find it to be more secure since there is a built in authentication and pre-application configuration. It uses industry standard protocols like TCP/IP, SOAP, XML and HTTP for distributed applications communication.
Server/client side	Server side (no need to futz with client installs - only with rendering issues if you use CSS). If you want to do more than just HTML/CSS pages on the client you need to also add javascript, java or other client-side language in your output Platform agnostic, can run on Windows, Linux or Mac servers	Drag and drop server control, automatic deployment is very handy when you will do the coding of your project.
Code overview	Lots of good source code out there to use and/or learn from, as well as many useful libraries for working with PDFs, graphics, etc.	The ASP.NET provides us the pleasure to do the least coding and still come out with the best results. You will really find the IDE environment more users friendly. However you cannot decline that they are also machine friendly.
Hosting	- Lots of hosting services have it ready to use, no special configuration (except if you have special security needs)	Additional licensing requirements will increase your monthly costs an average of five dollars a month. However, if you plan on spending a great deal of time on development and you already have extensive Microsoft based programming experience, this cost will be insignificant when compared to the time you will save.

I hope you find this information at least a little bit useful, and will make right choice.

Good luck!

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