In the recent times, one of the technology that has shown much promise to help people in India and worldwide around is one from Microsoft’s Kitchen. The motion sensing technology Kinect initially planned for bringing more excitement to a gamer’s life has now been extended, hacked and in sighted as […]
Windows 7 for Java Programmers
Published on :Specifically if you are a new Java programmer or a new Java programmer on Windows 7, you will probably need to set up an environment first for Java. Alternatively though you may need tools like Eclipse, but to go in hard code Geek way, here is what you need to […]
[MVP] Congratulations 2012 Microsoft MVP!
Published on :Just like last year, the year 2012 just started on a good note. I have been recognized and rewarded as Microsoft most Valuable Professional again. This time as well I have been awarded in Windows Expert – Consumer Category. This is the third consecutive time I have been awarded this […]
WindowsVJ Summary of Blog for 2011
Published on :In 2011 I wrote 78 posts and added 0 pages to this blog, with 295 attachments in total. The number of posts in each month: January: 14 (17.95%) February: 14 (17.95%) April: 13 (16.67%) May: 7 (8.97%) June: 13 (16.67%) July: 1 (1.28%) August: 4 (5.13%) September: 2 (2.56%) November: […]
Remove DOS\Alureon.e virus from Windows
Published on :Recently, when I checked out my home computer after several months I found it does not have Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) installed, The first thing I did was to install MSE and scan whole system. After the scan I kept getting a Trojan:DOS/Alureon.E threat in MSE Potential Threat details. Even […]
Memes in Facebook Chat
Published on :Facebook, your favorite social networking website, 9Gag, your favorite website for fun. What if you can use 9gag memes in your Facebook chat ? Yeah its true. It all started when yahoo in early 2000’s introduced chat smileys. The smileys and those emoticons became a major symbol to represent one’s […]
Display Text on Android application Screen
Published on :For all those new Android developers out there, here is how you can set text and display it on your Android application’s front end. TextView textViewObject = new TextView(this); textViewObject.setText(“Hello, Android”); setContentView( textViewObject); The output on the screen would look like : Here you create a TextView class’s object textViewObject […]
Make your android app Internet compatible
Published on :Rectify java.net.SocketException: Permission denied (maybe missing INTERNET permission) error By default, permissions for accessing Internet by an Android file are off. If you wish to do the same you may need to add a simple line into the manifest file of your Project. The permission "android.permission.INTERNET" allows applications to open […]
Displaying a Toast message in Android application
Published on :Toast messages is a very popular way of raising a message within an android application to show user a warning, message or an alert. The screenshot below shows an example toast notification from a Twitter application. It displays a Toast that article is posted to Twitter successfully. To show a […]
Android Development [Getting Started]
Published on :So you want to develop for Android ? Huh… ? Android is a open source OS by Google (rather purchased by Google in 2005) which is used in Mobile phones as well as in tablets. Hardware manufacturers like Samsung, Amazon are using Android to power their devices. You would ask […]