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My first android app is here. I have developed an app which has some stotras in telugu. This is first cut of the app. I will update with more slokas and stotras soon. Here is the apk to download. Required android version: 2.1 or more. (Tested on my LG Optimus 2x). Telugu Stotras.apk Here are some screenshots of the app Please post your comments and suggestions, so that I can improvise the app.

To install fontforge, directly use synaptic package manager.. To install glyphtracer.. 1. from synaptic manager install python qt4 libs 2. from synaptic manager install potracer.. 3. download glyphtracer and directly run it.

I wanted to develop some small apps for my android phone that I bought a month earlier. I thought the installation and writing apps would be difficult. I found the procedure easy by using eclipse plugins. The procedure to setup the android development environment is follows: 1. Install eclipse from the eclipse download page. 2. To publish app on the market. When i am set to publish the app on the market. It requires the following things. 1. Signature Certificate valid for minimum 50 years. 2. The name of the package should not start with com.android, com.java, com.market ... : So name your packages explicitly not containing keywords like android, market, google, example.. 3. You need to export the application from eclipse and then publish the app.

The android market is flooded with lots of apps. Some are free and some to buy. When something is for free and why go for paid apps. Although paid apps have some advantage over the free ones. APPS I INSTALLED: FINANCISTO: This app is great and did almost a financial planner does. APPS THAT I NEED TO INSTALL: RealCalc Scientific Calculator Wheres My Droid

I wanted to add some code syntax to some of my blogs. I don't know whether I may post some blogs which has some code or not.. But I wanted to be enabled. I encountered with this link http://heisencoder.net/2009/01/adding-syntax-highlighting-to-blogger.html . This has detailed listing of how to add syntax elements to blogger. I found that it supports various languages. #include >stdio.h< void main() { }

#include <stdio.h> ...Your html-escaped code goes here...

The power of multimedia editing requires more processing power. Introduction of cloud computing made easy, the task of these compute intense applications. Many tools are available online to do these tasks. For an example of retouching an image to adding graphics to the image. The below links provide some multimedia editors that are available online. http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/30-free-online-multimedia-photo-audio-video-editors/

Sometime s it is so irritating when you want to remove some thing in linux and you find .nfsXXXXX file “Cannot be removed: Device or resource busy”. ps command would not help in these scenarios to know what is actually using it. lsof is a command in linux to figure the open files. The output of this command is the list of files that open and used by the processes, the process name and PID of the process that is using the file. To remove .nfsXXXX files. Run lsof command Find the processID of the process that is using .nfsXXXX file. Kill the process. Remove the .nfsXXX file using rm command.