If you installed Windows XP after Windows 7, you’re left with the XP-MBR on your drive and thus only XP is booting. If you happen to have hardware, which produces the Code 5 error upon trying to boot from the Win7-DVD, you can do the following to restore the Win7-MBR from within XP:
To add custom sounds to your Android phone, create the following folders on your SD-card: Now you can put your MP3 sound files into these folders and they will appear upon the tone selection dialogs. (You may have to wait a while until they appear, maybe even have to reboot the phone.) On older Android… Read More: Custom Ringtones, Alarms, Notification tones in Android »
Android 2.2 (Codename: Frozen Yoghurt) brings a new feature which allows moving apps to the SD card. Unfortunately this only works for apps which bring a flag to allow this, i.e. not for the current versions. To enable this globally, activate USB debugging and plug the phone to your computer. Make sure, you have the… Read More: Enable moving any app to SD card (FroYo) »
To manually update the firmware, put the new firmware named as update.zip onto the root directory of the microSD card. Then do this: (found at androidspin.com)
Homepage: http://usbloadergx.koureio.net/ Foreign games settings (for PAL TVs)
Generate JSDoc file for your IDE To get auto-completion for the Titanium framework, you have to let your IDE know of all available methods and properties. Most IDEs can do this by parsing a JavaScript file. If you add JSDoc tags to it, you will even have descriptions, parameter hints, etc. For more information about… Read More: appcelerator Titanium Framework »
To export a list of all installed packages, you can use the following command: But this will loose any {A} markers for automatically installed packages and therefore produce a lot of garbage when dependencies change. To export only manually installed packages, use aptitude like this: (More aptitude filterstrings can be found on their project page.)… Read More: Sync Package List between 2 PCs »
mbirth’s Android apps on AppBrain Markets As Android allows you to get Apps from different sources, there are also some alternative Market applications. AppBrain even analyzes your installed apps and recommends other apps which might fit your user profile. Text Input The internal keyboard of Android 2.1 is great already. It does its job and… Read More: My Apps on the Nexus One »
For JSON data, there are different mime-types floating around the web: At ruby-forum.com there is a nice discussion which points out, why it is best to use text/x-json. The already wide-spread application/json is not really correct as application is meant for data which can only be read after being processed. But as JSON is clear-text,… Read More: JSON Mime-Types »
iPhone Android (esp. Nexus One) It’s from Apple. It’s NOT from Apple. (or: It’s from Google.) can change keyboard layout on the fly keyboard language related to GUI language (not independently configurable!), but different input methods (not only keyboards) downloadable/switchable on the fly ~150.000 Apps (most are gimmicks though) ~30.000 Apps and growing, some well-known… Read More: iPhone vs. Android »