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Instachrome

Cristi — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:49:33 +0000

This is a must have Chome extention for everyone who uses Instapaper.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fldildgghjoohccppflaohodcnmlacpb

Magic Trackpad Teardown

Cristi — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:37:35 +0000

via ifixit.com

The new Kindle

Cristi — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:39:06 +0000

Amazon announced today a new Kindle version. Some features:

All-New, High-Contrast E-Ink Screen with 50% better contrast
No glare
New and Improved Fonts
21% smaller body and 17% lighter
Battery Life of Up to One Month (this is cool)
Double the Storage 20% Faster Page Turns
Enhanced PDF Reader

But the best feature of this e-reader is probably the price. The WI-FI version is just 139$ and the 3G + WI-FI is 189$.

Will be released on August the 27th, available today for pre-order.

Time zone converter

Cristi — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:56:39 +0000

Time Zone Converter

TheTimezoneConverter.com is a site meant to quickly convert times from one timezone to another.

via [One Thing Well]

Funniest thing I’ve read all week

Cristi — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:30:34 +0000

In Java 1.6.0_21, the company field was changed from ‘Sun Microsystems, Inc’ to ‘Oracle.’ Apparently not the best idea, because some applications depend on that field to identify the virtual machine. All Eclipse versions since 3.3 (released 2007) until and including the recent Helios release (2010) have been reported to crash with an OutOfMemoryError due to this change. This is particularly funny since the update is deployed through automatic update and suddenly applications cease to work.

via nighthacks.com

And I love this comment also: “That’s the oracle bug”

AndroNoter – A SimpleNote Android client

Cristi — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 19:31:07 +0000

And it's live. My fist Android application is live in the Android Market. It's called AndroNoter and is a SimpleNote Android client.

Feaures:

Quickly take notes on the go
Synchronize your notes with SimpleNote
Email your notes from inside the app
Search for keywords through all your notes
Edit your notes while offline
Automatically saves and syncs notes when you go back from editing to notes list
Free (as in free beer) and no ads
And more to come

If you would like to try it out just search for in on the AndroidMarket on your phone, download it and have a look.

If Games Had Super Easy Mode

Cristi — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:36:46 +0000

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Proxy settings on Android

Cristi — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 09:12:22 +0000

Where are the proxy settings? I can't find them anywhere!!! How can I configure a proxy on Android?

It was so simple on the iPhone. In the config screen for your wi-fi network you have a section called HTTP Proxy.

How to take a screenshot

Cristi — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 11:11:03 +0000

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Format XML with TextWrangler

Cristi — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:17:51 +0000

I’ve been using TextWrangler as default text editor in Mac for some time now and today I’ve been confronted with a small problem, I had an xml file that wasn’t formated at all and I wanted a way to easily format the file. Searched in the Text Wrangler menus and didn’t found a tidy option so I googled my problem.

As I expected, I wasn’t the first one to have this problem so I quickly found a solution. And after a minute of work I had my XML file indented and formated as I would.

So … here are the steps I did:

Go to your TextWrangler’s Unix Filters Folder. You can find it if you go to #! menu, Unix Filters, Open Filters Folder.
Create a file there, paste the code below

#!/bin/sh
xmllint --c14n "$*" | XMLLINT_INDENT=$'t' xmllint --format -

Save the file, give it a meaningful name like “Format XML.sh” or something

And there you have it, now if you go to the #! menu, Unix Filters submenu you will see your Format XML.sh, click it and your xml file will be automatically formated.