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Kindle Fire HD Unboxing, First Impressions, Thoughts about iPad 3 and iPad Mini
Welcome to my unboxing of the new Kindle Fire HD. If you don’t know me, I’m an Android product designer and developer of FrostWire for Android, been an Android user for the last 3 years, as a developer...
View ArticleJava: Have a JTable’s column preferred width adjusted perfectly to the size...
Here’s a utility method I’ve coded for FrostWire’s partial download dialog. With it I’m able to adjust a JTable’s column by iterating over the table’s column model data and calculating the exact...
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No Bad CODE – Files Included to Print your own stickers – #CODE #streetart...
Enjoy and print my latest creation (links at the end) inspired in the coding philosophy of “No Broken Windows” of the book The Pragmatic Programmer Save the .pngs, print with Photoshop (Fit to Screen)...
View ArticleHow to process thousands of WordPress posts without hitting or raising memory...
So you need to write a script that processes all the posts in your wordpress database, you don’t need to use the stupid wordpress loop because you’re not writing web facing code, you might just need to...
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Get FrostWire 1.0 for Android
If you are getting an Android device this holiday season, we’ve spent the last 5 months building a must-have app for it. Install FrostWire via Google Play. Download the .apk installer. Here’s a few...
View Article[SOLVED] Kindle Fire HD not being detected by adb
OSX Setup Modify your adb_usb.ini Open the ~/.android/adb_usb.ini file for editing and add 0x1949 0x0006 Save the file. Note: Make sure there is only one entry per line. If the file does not exist,...
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My first Facebook Gift Experience
November 22, I buy a gift for my wife. I notice the selection is already sizeable, seems like they’ve cut out deals (or just integrated) with Starbucks and other smaller but exclusive brands. I’ve...
View ArticleAndroid: Changing TextView alpha transparency across different target SDKs
Sometimes you may need to make a TextView (label) look a little transparent to make emphasis on other parts of your UI. The .setAlpha() function on TextView is not supported after later in the SDK....
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Can the brain of a man be programmed by man-conceived language and programmers?
When you try to express thought, intent, backed behind some other abstract motivation as a way to cope with the boredom of “reality”, a.k.a. we’re just a bunch of fucking fancy monkeys on a spec of...
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Remee Unboxing
Welcome to my Remee Unboxing, unlike every other night I think tonight I’ll actually want to go to bed because there might be a chance towards doing something productive or fun while I’m in temporary...
View ArticleHow to check if a Java Process is running on any local Virtual Machine...
Quick and dirty way to check if a Java Process is already running. Useful if you need to run cronjobs periodically and you don’t know how long they might take, you can add this check at the beginning...
View ArticleSkiing tips for turns
Took a skiing lesson, I’ll write all these tips here so I can read it next year or the next time I go skiing now that it’s all fresh in my mind: 1. When it’s time to turn, don’t think about breaking...
View ArticleHow to enable adb logcat (debugging output) on Android 4
So you got a new Nexus or another Android running Android +4.2 and there’s no “Applications” menu entry in the settings menu. No worries. Go to the “About phone” entry at the bottom of settings, then...
View Articlejar dependencies if you plan to use the cling UPnP library in your android...
This took me quite a while and lots of runtime errors, here are the minimum jars I needed to add to my project since now cling when used on android needs jetty, and damn jetty is broken into a thousand...
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java: How to get all the files inside a folder and its subfolders without...
Most programmers will do this in a recursive fashion, but doing that is putting yourself at risk of hitting a stack overflow error, and it’s 20% slower (according to my tests). Here’s my first...
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Archive.org as a new search engine in FrostWire puts millions of free legal...
We’re currently polishing our next release of FrostWire for Android 1.0.6. Our last release was back in November 2012, since then we’ve received crash reports and lots of complaints that have helped us...
View ArticleTips for making your Airport Security Line fast and friendlier to others in...
If you’re a geek traveler with a backpack full of gadgets, perhaps you’ve also obsesivelly thought of how to make this tedious part of travelling as fast and issue free as possible. Here’s my ritual...
View ArticleOnly when you start reading minds you start becoming an expert at something.
I’ve been doing what I now consider truly coding for the last 4 years, but I’ve been doing much simpler programming for 10 years. Something happened more over the last 2 years, as I used other’s...
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My First Raspberry PI Project: DIY ARM Video Game Console.
I got everything on amazon, didn’t pay for shipping (Prime member): So far I bought: - Raspberry PI ($48) - Raspberry PI case ($14) - Power adapter ($2.25) - SNES-like Controller with USB jack ($10.75)...
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