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Well the day I never thought would come has arrived. I have finished a proof of concept of my android music control using an external (in th...

With the android music player you can change songs using the following broadcast. It's not guaranteed to work with any other music playe...

I started out trying to pull the android bluetooth chat application from the developer website....BAD IDEA. I spent quite a bit of time comm...

Eclipse has a really nice feature which allows through a keyboard shortcut the ability to update the imports required for your code. I lik...

Do I think that there is one language that is best? No. I can say that with a high degree of confidence. Each language has it's own idio...

New Apps Released! Well it was a busy couple of weeks, I have released 2 apps on the market in the last few weeks.   Pizza Area , and I Am ...

I decided to start playing around with GraphViz, here are a few of my notes: To call a file use the following command (works for me). dot...

I was having problems getting truecrypt to work on my ubuntu machine. Once I downloaded it and unzipped it there was no extension and for so...

While using sqllite sql software for android, I was runing into problems. I was able to do exact matches, but for some reason I couldn't...

Links of interest. http://hackaday.com/2010/08/11/how-to-launchpad-programming-with-linux/ http://springuin.nl/en/articles/launchpadwindo...

Well after much heartburn (and once again being burned by pull down resistors). I have managed to make some progress. I now have half of m...

I've been having problems with folder permissions on ubuntu, oddly enough, trying chmod 777 on stuff wasn't really working well, bas...

I was hoping to download boxee for my recently updated media server. Turns out that boxee has some issues with the package downloadable fr...

So getc is basically the same as getchar but to get the same effect getc(stdin) = getchar basically. http://www.cplusplus.com/ reference/cli...

Valid Conditions The following will be how we can get a successful compile. This would be using Function Prototyping: ### BEGINNING OF F...

I recently picked up the Bluetooth module RN-42  This was a cheap low cost way to integrate Bluetooth into an upcoming project. First up was...

I was attempting to place my calculations from eecon into an AsyncTask.  I initially thought I would make a common task, calling it from bo...

This link is great for just throwing a quick ad in with admob into your app. http://code.google.com/mobile/ads/docs/android/fundamentals.h...

Well I finally did it, I applied at Google, I don't know if I'll ever feel ready with the epicness this company has brought to every...

How often do you have "big ideas"? It frustrates me as I have so many ideas so frequently, and I don't have enough time to imp...