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Android: Setup Home and Work Locations for Google Now Traffic Cards

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Google has just announced and released Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to the developers.  One of the exciting features is Google Now which automatically supplies you information such as weather and traffic about your predicted trip. For this to work correctly, you will need your home and work locations correctly set. Follow these steps to do it.

Eclipse: Show Prompt for Workspace on Startup

Whenever you launch Eclipse, the program will ask you to choose a workspace. Because this happens on every launch, you may get annoyed and check the do not ask again box to get rid of it. However, this feature is actually very useful when you are working on multiple different projects. If you want to re-display this button at program’s start-up, follow this tutorial.

Android Jelly Bean 4.1: Disable Notifications for Specific Apps

From Jelly Bean 4.1 onward, Android has the ability to disable app notifications even if that app itself does not include this option. If you want to block ad notification from apps and games, this tutorial will help you sort out the problem. Continue reading to find out how.

How Do I Develop and Export an Android Application In Eclipse?

Before you start developing your first Android Application, you should know how to set up the developing environment in Eclipse and how to export your application for testing purposes. In this tutorial I will walk you through all the necessary steps of these two tasks so you can start developing in no time.

Windows Notepad: Insert Time and Date into Text or Log File

Notepad is one of Window’s best tools. As I frequently use it with logs, here are a couple of time and date tricks I have learned over the years.

IE 10: Always Open Links in Either the Desktop or the Metro Version

By default, Windows 8 controls which version of Internet Explorer will be launched. Therefore, some of your links will be opened in the desktop version, while others will be opened in the Metro version. Many people may become accustomed to a particular browser version and may want pages to open in one specific version only. Fortunately, we can set the default browser version of IE to open links. Most desktop users will want to force the links to open in the desktop version.

Solaris 10: Set Subnet Mask in Zone

A netmask setting is not available when creating a zone, and the /etc/netmasks file is not consulted when plumbing up zone interfaces. This tech-recipe describes how to force a netmask when creating a zone.

Windows 8: Display Both Desktop and Metro Apps at the Same Time

In Windows 8, the desktop and Metro applications are displayed in different environments. However, to work more effectively, users can always display both applications on the screen simultaneously, without having to switch the apps back and forth. This tutorial will show you all the necessary steps to start working in split view mode. Read on to find out how.

Photoshop and Illustrator: Change the Guide Color and Style

The guides feature in Photoshop and Illustrator is helpful when users want to position the elements of a document precisely. However, because the default color of the guides is cyan, it is not suitable on a bright document. This color often makes spotting the thin lines difficult for users. Here is how to change it to your desired color.

Solaris 10: Enable NFS Server

The new service management facility in Solaris 10 provides a powerful means of administering services. This addition to Solaris means significant changes to operations related to service administration. This tech-recipe describes the command that will enable the NFS server in Solaris 10.

Solaris 10: Mount a Disk Slice in a Sub-Zone

Non-global zones in Solaris 10 do not have the ability to see drives or disk slices. (To prove this, list the contents of /dev/dsk from within a zone.) What filesystems are mounted in which zones is controlled exclusively from the global zone. This tech-recipe describes persistently mounting a disk slice in a non-global zone.

Solaris 10: Connect or Login to Zone Console

Once you have a non-global zone installed or running on a Solaris 10 installation, connecting to the console of the zone is often useful. This provides the same control over the zone as connecting to the console of a physical server running Solaris.

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