In helping develop and code an Android Custom Recovery based off the official gingerbread AOSP version, I did a lot of research. I gathered links to the code of all other custom recoveries I was familiar with. Below is a …
In researching the best way to approach displaying a progress bar while an android app is completing a task I came across a few helpful guides! I wanted to use the progress bar during an AsyncTask method call. The only …
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Spent a lot of time researching how to do extend my desktop onto a second monitor in Ubuntu 11.04 with Unity. Extending the display and desktop is a simple task on Windows but under Ubuntu it was very difficult until …
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A friend, Numus, suggested I display kernel version information in my application, FlashImageGUI, a while back. Today, I had time to research and implement this feature. Turns out, AOSP includes a great method for doing this! In most android devices, …
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At first glance, you might think replacing shoe laces is a simple task, as I thought so, but it has turned out to be quite the project. I purchased a pair of ECCO dress shoes 4 years ago this summer …
The suspension on my Camry, after 10 years of being lowered, is presenting some issues with tire rubbing. Lowered with Intrax Springs, which have probably sagged, it has been more difficult than working with the stock setup. Local shop recommended …
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How to make an Android application load at start up. Did a bit of research but never ended up having the need to implement. List of my research links below and their code examples: http://www.androidsnippets.com/autostart-an-application-at-bootup http://www.coderanch.com/t/439875/Android/Mobile/make-your-application-run-as http://code.google.com/p/apps-for-android/source/browse/trunk/Photostream/AndroidManifest.xml http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2912209/how-to-create-startup-application-in-android http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6391902/how-to-start-an-application-on-startup-in-android …
Ran into this issue, where the eggdrop binary would generally seg fault on a system where it had previously worked. The FreeBSD box had loaded a newer version of TCL, 8.6. Simple way to check with version of TCL is …
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Original goal: Find the Google Android Java standard for accessing a shell through an application. Result: Google’s version of Java for Android doesn’t have a standard official supported method for accessing the shell from the application. Here are a few …
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Took a bit of researching through Google to find the best method to simply erase all the adware, malware, and other random junk accumulated on a laptop over 5 years of usage and restore it back to the stock factory …
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There are quite a few different functions which will return data from an Android phone. The generic list of function calls are located here: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.html I wanted to know what all of these different calls would return on my HTC …
Searching online using Google for directions to preform a hard reset on a Sprint HTC Touch Pro will result in many different versions. Below are the directions I’ve found which worked on my Sprint HTC Touch Pro. Directions for a …
Fiscal Year 2009 (Oct 1st 2008-Oct 1st 2009) Deficit – 1.4 billion Fiscal Year 2008 Deficit – $450 billion Don’t blame Bush (Republican) or Obama (Democrat) for the large government budget deficit of 2009. Rather, blame them both. Bush was …
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John runs this small business. He is very friendly and accomodating. I needed some body work performed within a matter of hours. He was able to complete the body work with a very tight time frame. The work is very good …
A Brief list of future topics to research and cover. Going forward this list will be updated. War – Iraq War – Afghanistan Foreign Policy – Iran Foreign Policy – General Guidelines Health Care – Costs Corporatism – General Concept …
The program forced the destruction of 700,000 perfectly functional cars and light trucks. If each car was roughly worth $3,000 with 700,000 vehicles totals $2.1 billion in wealth was destroyed. It is as if a hurricane came through and completely destroyed …
Health Insurance Not a Free Market – The Source of Employer Based Health Insurance Due to the Federal Reserve and other government policies, inflation soared both before and during World War II (WWII). As a remedy to soaring prices resulting …
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Updated – March 25th 2010 – At the bottom After logging into the http://www.vipergps.com web site to access the Viper GPS system, I wanted to see how much purchasing more credits would cost. The link advised me the service is …
DEI Viper 210V GPS Satellite Tracking System Discontinued Read more »
At the beginning of 2007, January 2nd we had $8.678 trillion in outstanding public debt. One year after Lehman went bankrupt, Sept 15th 2009, we have $11.8 trillion in outstanding public debt showing over a $2 trillion increase. The U.S., …
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U.S. bailout has pledged $11.6 trillion as of September 25th 2009 compared to $7.4 trillion as of November 24th 2008. Although down from $12.8 trillion on March 31st 2009. The Federal Reserve sharing a $5.8 trillion portion as of September 25th …
US Bailout Pledge up from $7.4 to $11.6 trillion Read more »