In our previous post Setting Up your PC for Developing Android Applications, we have learned how we can set up Eclipse IDE to develop Android applications but there is one last step that we need to do before we can move ahead and start developing Android applications. It is configuring the Android Virtual Device (AVD) also known as Emulator. AVD is an emulator configuration that will let you...
Setting Up your PC for Developing Android Applications
Introduction to Android Android, one of the leading operating systems in mobile platform is increasingly being adopted by many mobile phone manufacturers. I have witnessed the revolution it brought in the mobile platform and a simple fact that you using your Android powered mobile without a hint of J2ME & Symbian platforms in the market which prospered not so long ago tells the success story...
Beam Fiber Automatic Login Script
Beam Fiber also known as Beam Telecom is one of the leading Internet Service Provider in Southern Indian cities like Hyderabad and Bangalore. In this post we are going to learn about a Grease Monkey script which will help you to automatically log into the Beam Fiber internet connection. Despite the fact that Beam offers high speed reliable internet connection, I got frustrated by the reason that...
How to use your Personal Computer to Set an Alarm ?
At various occasions you might have felt that it would be good if your PC can remind you of things that you need to do. I felt many times that What if my PC can wake me up early in the morning ? What if my PC can download the news and read it for me ? imagining all the things that Robert Downey Jr does in Iron Man. Here in this post let us take a look how we can make our PC remind us of the...
How to Modify or Remove Genesis Footer Credit Links ?
In general, it is a good practice to remove the back links from your blog provides to any third party website/blog for various reasons and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is one of the important reasons among them. I have received quite a few automated emails recently from third party theme developers to delete the back links in footer credits of their respective themes because of Penguin Update...
Fix NTFS Partition is in Unsafe State Mount Problem in Ubuntu (Dual Boot Windows 8)
If you are dual booting your ubuntu operating system with Windows 8, you might have come across this situation where your hard disk is not accessible in Ubuntu with an error message Error mounting /dev/sda3 at /media/pavankumars/New Volume1: Command-line `mount -t “ntfs” -o “uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=0077,fmask=0177″ “/dev/sda3”...
Introduction to Youtube API
Youtube is one of the best video sharing platforms where everyone can upload and share their videos across the globe. As a blogger, Youtube helps me to share the video tutorials with you which I can also embed in the post page where tutorial is explained. I strongly believe the future of blogging is with videos hence Youtube. Recently, I came across a post where it says about the decline in...
Best DSLR Camera to buy under planned budget 50K ?
Like every budding photographer I went on a quest to find out the best DSLR Camera that I can afford. Being a 22 year old software engineer, who wants to fund his own expenses, the maximum I can afford is 50K Rupees. How did I come to that number – 50K? Life always has unlimited number of ifs and buts. And given my financial circumstances all I can manage is 50K. Also photography, being...
What are the Differences between SLR and SLT Cameras ?
Introduction to D-SLR ( Single Lens Reflex ) and SLT ( Single Lens Translucent ) SLT is a type of camera by Sony which is used in its Alpha family of products which replaced D-SLR cameras. To know about the differences between a D-SLR and SLT Camera we must understand the way cameras operate to capture the image. SLT technology used by Sony in its Alpha family of products has replaced the D-SLR...
How to Create a ZIP File using PHP ?
Creating a ZIP File using PHP is very simple using the built-in Class “ZipArchive“. All one has to do is create an instance of this class and use the methods of this class to create the zip file. Lets take a look how we can create a zip file. The snippet for creating a zip file is <?php if (isset($_FILES['upload']) === true ){ $files =...