LIT extension Ubuntu

Calibre-Install the ebook management in Ubuntu Linux

sudo apt-get install calibre

Microsoft Reader uses the .lit format for it's ebooks ;

Calibre is a free ebook management that works on Linux, OS X and Windows.It is meant to be a complete e-library solution and thus includes library management, format conversion, news feeds to ebook conversion, as well as e-book reader sync features and an integrated e-book viewer.

Calibre can be found at http://calibre.kovidgoyal.net/. 

http://calibre-ebook.com/

Fedora 15 FLASH amd64

Install Adobe Flash Player 10.3 on Fedora 15

1. Change Root User

sudo -i
## OR ##
su -

 

2. Install Adobe YUM Repository RPM package

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

3. Update Repositories

yum check-update

Fedora 15/14/13/12 and Red Hat (RHEL) 6 64-bit version (x86_64) (32 bit wrapped version)

yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper.x86_64 \ 
nspluginwrapper.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 libcurl.i686

Late Orders : Soap ASP.NET WebService & Android Ksoap2 Client

Here it is the source code and pictures from a sample application that exposes an ASP.NET 
SOAP webservice that is consumed in an Android Java Client ... 


How to load into Eclipse a project from Google.Code via subversion
How to add Android plugin to Eclipse Indigo


LateOrdersByZone extends ListActivity 


ViewsActivity : 
startActivity(new Intent(this, LateOrdersByZone.class));


Order[] allOrders;
Vector vectorOfStrings = new Vector();



int orderCount = vectorOfStrings.size();
String[] orderTimeStamps = new String[orderCount];
vectorOfStrings.copyInto(orderTimeStamps); 

setListAdapter(new ArrayAdapter(this,

                android.R.layout.simple_list_item_1 , orderTimeStamps));

http://code.google.com/p/jtelmon/source/browse/trunk/AndroidViews/


Order
http://code.google.com/p/jtelmon/source/browse/trunk/AndroidViews/src/net/learn2develop/AndroidViews/Order.java


LateOrdersByZone
http://code.google.com/p/jtelmon/source/browse/trunk/AndroidViews/src/net/learn2develop/AndroidViews/LateOrdersByZone.java


Copy1OfLateOrdersByZone


Copy2OfLateOrdersByZone


Copy3OfLateOrdersByZone

ASP.NET WebService : Orders2a.asmx 

what we want to do in a few years ...

ChromeBooks first - ChromePhones next ?

Google Chromebooks finally go on sale: Available 15th June

What if chromebooks are the second test ( after cr48 ) , 

and the final products will be the CHROME-PHONES ? 

In the case Oracle will win the Android-Java lawsuit ,

and the royalties for Android ( ORCL+MSFT) will be too high , 

Google can propose to smartphone makers another OS  ...
this time : royalty-free !

What is Android?

Beginning Android Gingerbread, Part 1

Beginning Android Gingerbread, Part 4

Q:

1. What is Android?
2. What is Dalvik?
3. What is Gingerbread?
4. What operating systems does Gingerbread/2.3.3 support?
5. Does Gingerbread/2.3.3 support Java SE 6 APIs?
6. Identify the three directories that are initially stored in the android-sdk-windows home directory.
7. What is the difference between the SDK Manager and android tools?
8. What does the emulator tool accomplish?
9. When you start SDK Manager, what dialog boxes are presented?
10. Which package is installed by default?
11. What additional packages need to be installed so that you can develop with Gingerbread/2.3.3?
12. Identify the directories that are added to android-sdk-windows as a result of installing Gingerbread/2.3.3. 

A:

1. Android is Google's operating system for mobile devices. It consists of an application framework, libraries, and a Dalvik
   virtual machine-based runtime environment that collectively run on top of a modified Linux kernel.

2. Dalvik is a non-Java virtual machine that's based on processor registers instead of a stack. It was created by Google
   employee Dan Bornstein, who named Dalvik after an Icelandic fishing village from where some of his ancestors originated.

3. Gingerbread is the nickname for version 2.3 of the Android platform and its 2.3.1 and 2.3.3 successors.

4. Gingerbread/2.3.3 supports the Windows XP (32-bit), Vista (32- or 64-bit), Windows 7 (32- or 64-bit), Mac OS X 10.5.8 or
   later (x86 only), and Linux (tested on Ubuntu Linux, Lucid Lynx) operating systems.

5. Gingerbread/2.3.3 does not support Java SE 6 APIs.

6. The three directories that are initially stored in the android-sdk-windows home directory are add-ons, platforms, and
   tools.

7. The difference between the SDK Manager and android tools is that SDK Manager lets you create AVDs, install SDK components,
   and more via a graphical user interface, whereas android lets you create Android projects, create AVDs, and more via a
   command-line-oriented user interface. Also, android presents SDK Manager's Android SDK and AVD Manager dialog box when
   invoked with no command-line arguments.

8. The emulator tool launches an AVD by creating a complete Android software stack down to the Linux kernel level; the
   emulated Android device includes preinstalled apps (such as Phone) that you can launch.

9. When you start SDK Manager, the Android SDK and AVD Manager dialog box, followed by the Refresh Sources and Choose
   Packages to Install dialog boxes are presented.

10. The Android SDK Tools, revision 10 package is installed by default.

11. The Android SDK Platform-tools, revision 3 and SDK Platform Android 2.3.3, API 10, revision 1 packages need to be
    installed so that you can develop with Gingerbread/2.3.3.

12. The platform-tools directory is added to android-sdk-windows and the android-10 directory is added to
    android-sdk-windows\platforms as a result of installing Gingerbread/2.3.3.

MAC hare - PC tortoise

Where in the world are Mac sales growing? Everywhere!
Mac is the hare, PC the tortoise... 

Business is booming: Apple MAC shipments to business were up 66% (vs. 4.5%) in March 2011.
Business sales in the December quarter, were up 65.4% (vs. 9.7%). 

All that sounds like the Apple juggernaut is unstoppable. But even with a whopping 66 percent growth last quarter, Macs still only account for a measly 3 percent of total sales to businesses. Three percent does not a juggernaut make. It's practically a rounding error.

Mac sales growth outpaced the Microsoft Windows PC market in the March quarter
-- the 20th quarter in row it has done so.

IBM greater than Microsoft

IBM Worth More Than Microsoft ?

For one brief, shining moment , IBM passed Microsoft  in stock-market capitalization. The folks at IBM have been keeping score ever since Mister Softy surpassed Big Blue as the biggest of the tech behemoths nearly 20 years ago.

not quite big surprise as long as 

Windows Phone is at the bottom of Global Smartphone Rankings

let's remember that 

After Microsoft acquired Danger, Andy Rubin was ousted as CEO

 and ...

Microsoft's biggest mobile money-maker is Android, not Windows Phone 7

Beginning of the end for Microsoft's Ballmer?

Plenty has gone wrong on Ballmer's watch --- Google became dominant on the Internet and mobile. Microsoft has become reliant on yesterday's technology ... 

FOR ITS PART, IBM IS ONE of the few pioneering computer companies to survive the transition from mainframes and mini-computers to the client-server era, which has been dominated by Microsoft and its Windows and Office software. IBM toiled in low-margin personal-computer hardware, while Gates & Co. profited from Microsoft's ubiquitous operating system. IBM eventually sold its PC business to China's Lenovo, increased investments in enterprise servers and storage and expanded heavily into higher-margin software and consulting services.