Belorussia vs Acer

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Android platform issues 2

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

Today I've investigated the problem deeply.

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.

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.

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!