Friday, December 25, 2009

Belorussia vs Acer

One of Belorussian distributorship proposes Acer desktop monitors as their own named INTEGRAL.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Android 3-rd party source code

I think you know that Android has 3-rd party Java API.
For example it is Apache API in part of HttpClient 4.x.
That is good code.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Android 2.0 APN

The two last versions of Android emulator - 2.0 and 2.0.1 ignore a proxy settings for APNs.

I'm really upset.

Android application MIME type

Useful facts about Android:

The MIME type of typical Android application (apk file) is application/vnd.android.package-archive.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Android Web Browser

Today I was surprised by the next news: Android web browser doesn't support queries by ftp protocol.

Instead of that Browser interprets a typed address as query string and send it to Google.


Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Android Benchmark

A Softweg Studio has announced that Android Benchmark was updated on Android Market.

New version has function for uploading a Benchmark results to the web site and compare it with others.


Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Make your laptop a hotspot

This movie is showing how to share your laptop Internet connection with a colleagues on Windows Vista, Windows XP and Mac OS X.



It was got from cnet tv.

Google goggles

New visual search service from Google.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Android platform issues 2

Earlier I've written about NPE in Android platform HttpClient 4.x.

Today I've investigated the problem deeply.

Friday, December 4, 2009

Android secrets: 1

- Which type of resource file do you use to avoid hardcoding of strings?
- res/strings.xml
- Which one for the integers?
- Hm...

Google Android 2.0.1

December 4 Google released Android platform 2.0.1.
This release has only minor changes and bug fixes. But I like such progress.

Thursday, December 3, 2009

Android Platform issues 1

As you already know Android contains a 3-rd party Java API.
One of such open source projects is Apache HttpClient.

QT4

December 1 Nokia has released QT4.6.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Apache 2.2 mime_magic_module and PHP scripts

The task: force Apache to handle PHP scripts without any file extensions.
Apache is able to determine MIME of file in two ways:
  1. Using mime_module by extension
  2. Using mime_magic_module by the first several bytes of file
I have investigated the second way.

Android platform file system

On typical Linux file system the root directory "/" has a node number equaled 2.
Nodes with number 1 are bad blocks.
Other files and directories have different node numbers.

However, in practice, mobile file system yaffs2, which is used by Android platform has another behavior:
all directories in the root directory as well as the root itself have node number equaled 1!