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Android – Displaying Dialogs From Background Threads
Having threads to do some heavy lifting and long processing in the background is pretty standard stuff. Very often you would want to notify or prompt the user after the background task has finished by displaying a Dialog. The displaying
Change the date and time (or any other EXIF image meta-data) of pictures with Ubuntu
There is a very flexible and easy Linux tool that helps you change the EXIF meta-data of images. It allows you to change individual files or whole bunch of them with one command. You can also put different rules about
Android applications that use the MyLocationOverlay class crash on the new Droid X
Update: August 29, 2010 Tested this myself on a friend’s phone and this bug is definitively not fixed yet despite the recent Motorola updates! The burden is on you (the developer) to fix this if you want your applications to
Just Upgraded my Nexus One from Android 2.1 to Android 2.2
The latest Android OS version 2.2 (“Froyo”) was announced at the Google I/O conference on the 11th of May. As you already probably know it adds multiple enhancements like tethering, wifi hotspot functionality, full support for Flash, etc. Since I
Find the Geopgraphical Location of an IP Address
There are a few applications that give the geographical location of an IP address *. My favorite one is VisualRoute. It not only maps the location of the source and destination IP addresses, but also all the hops in between.
Install Subversion and Subclipse for Eclipse on Ubuntu
If you do not have Eclipse installed yet, run: sudo apt-get install eclipse Install Subversion sudo apt-get install subversion Install the Subversion plugin for Eclipse Get the Java bindings for Subversion: sudo apt-get install libsvn-java Now we are ready to
How to connect your Android phone to Ubuntu to do development, testing, installations or tethering
If you do any Android development in Ubuntu it is much better to test your applications on a real device rather than just relying on the emulator. If you just connect the phone to the computer through USB and run
Extract Audio (.mp3) from Video Files Like .flv, .mov, .avi and Others with Ubuntu
It is very easy to extract the audio track from video files using Linux. All you need is ffmpeg and some codecs. Let’s get started… Note: The commands below are for Ubuntu (or Debian derivatives) but you can do the
How to Resume Partial File Transfers
I work primarily with UNIX and Linux machines and scp is my main choice to transfer files with. It is both convenient, short and secure. Example: scp localfile user@remotecomputer:/path/to/target/dir Recently I was transferring an 8GB file and due to a