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WIN_X360_10LM

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Last night as I was trying to upgrade the BIOS of my Samsung X360 laptop, I got a “Loading driver failed. Restart system” error. I searched the entire internet and found a fix that suggested I should install Samsung Update Plus, which didn’t work. I was trying to flash from Windows 7 (32 bit) and I had a feeling that this tiny program wasn’t made to run under this OS.

Ultimately I decided to run the BIOS update program in Compatibility Mode. I right clicked it and Windows proposed to run the BIOS update in Windows XP SP2 Compatibility Mode. Yikes! It sounds scary and it ran way slower than I expected, but it worked and I got my update.

@Flickr optimized display for the #iPhone : Why I don’t use m.flickr.com

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Flickr, the photo and video site has a special entry for iPhones. Take your iPhone to http://m.flickr.com and you’ll see a special iPhone optimized version of Flickr. That sounds great, but I don’t think it is. The iPhone version is far less functional than the regular site (http://www.flickr.com): you can’t organize photos in Sets, Groups are inaccessible and the iPhone optimized site won’t let you use the Zoom function on your iPhone! And that bugs me, because I love my iPhone, but the screen is still small… You have to work with the fixed dimensions of the iPhone optimized site. And that’s a bit strange, because at the bottom of flickr.com there’s an option to switch to the regular flickr.com, which brings back all functionality! Except for a tiny thing or two. Like most cell phones, the iPhone still has no support for Flash, which is why videos cannot be displayed (m.flickr.com wraps the video in .mp4, which should be playable by your iPhone).

If you’re not a power user and you just want to click a few pics, then the optimized m.flickr.com will work just fine on your iPhone. If you’re a Flickr member and you post photos and video yourself, you want to do more than just click-a-pic and switching between the regular and the mobile version is a waste of time and doesn’t make any sense…

I’ve been experimenting with an iPhone optimized version of dae’s weblog, but I gave it up for the reasons mentioned above. Losing significant navigation features, as well as functionality wasn’t worth it for me!

More and more sites are offering optimized versions for cell phones and the iPhone in particular, but I’m not using them. Functionality needs to improve first and in the meantime I’ll have the regular site design! It’s funny: On the one side there’s Apple trying to offer its users a true deskop experience and on the other side web sites are being transformed to optimize design and content for mobile display.

Did you know you can share your ideas and suggestions for Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/groups/flickrideas/