It’s an addon/extension to Firefox, Safari and Chrome users and bookmarklet for IE.

For example, this java tutorial, cluttered with ads.

Clutter with ads

A simple click on the Readability button and TADAAA:

After Readability is turned on

You can also adjust the font size, width and color theme to your liking.

Readability's Settings

Give it a try, you will definitely like it.

We measure the rendering in FPS which stands for frames per second. If we have 30FPS that means that we display 30 images every second. For a mobile device 30 FPS is great so we will aim for that.

Just imagine someone walking and close your eyes for exactly one second. After opening your eyes you will see the person in the position after one second. This is a 2FPS.
Source – http://obviam.net/index.php/2-1-a-little-about-game-architecture/

I never thought it could be explained this way! haha

Anyway, the posted link as above gives a good overall idea and implementation on how to develop a game (surface view is used, main game loop to update the UI running on another thread etc).

Sqlite database on your Android emulator

1.Create it in onCreate() when your app first launched:

According to Using Databases | Android developer:

The recommended method to create a new SQLite database is to create a subclass of SQLiteOpenHelper and override the onCreate() method, in which you can execute a SQLite command to create tables in the database

There’s a sample coding on how to populate the DB programmatically here at the Data Storage| Android developer.

2. Create the sqlite database on your PC and adb push it to your emulator.

- Use the Android Debug Bridge (adb) pull/push to retrieve a copy of the database on your   Android emulator, populate it and put it back on the emulator.

• Fire up your emulator.
• Open up your command shell (Start -> Run -> type in cmd):

Your database will be stored in data/data/<package name>/databases/<db name of your choice>

The full command as the screenshot above is:

adb pull data/data/com.chien.programmersquote/databases/quote local_database

‘quote’ is the DB that is stored on the emulator and obviously local_database is the DB file name I will be downloading my database to at C:\users\Sted\

After that you could manipulate the DB using one of the tools available freely, namely the firefox addon, Sqlite Database Browser,  SqliteSpy.

In the emulator you can access these database files directly; when connecting to a real phone however you will need root access to access the database files directly.

3. Import/Export via DDMS from Eclips

Inside Eclipse while the emulator is running, you can see your file hierarchy by going to Window -> Show View -> Other.. -> Android -> File Explorer ( or just click on the DDMS icon)

It took me some time to figure out the there are 3 buttons here on the DDMS page that serves as adb pull, adb push and delete file.  Navigate to your database at data/data/<package name>/databases/ and just click on the button to either download / upload / delete the database.

Hope it helps. Ways described above are just generally some ways to deal with populating the database on your emulator for testing purposes.

Weird enough, it’s packed as a jar file under the /lib folder in the Android sdk.

Execute this in your command prompt and you should get your hierarchy view up and running.

java -jar ./lib/hierarchyviewer.jar

Note that you need to add the Java interpreter java to the System Variables->PATH to execute the above script.

After that, you could create a .bat file(put the above one line command in the .bat file) and put it in your tools folder to fire up the hierarchy view(with lesser typing).

I did some research and decided to use Thematic  Framework to revamp my blog.  I like the clean interface and it’s really easy to modify a child theme outta it.

So there you have it, a new theme for boringmonday.com

I like the idea of Google Timeline a lot, finally I have took the time over the weekends to integrate this Google Timeline clone using PHP-jquery-mySQL into my own blog. It’s much easier to integrate than I thought, the WordPress team certainly make things easy!

It’s more like my personal records of stuff that I have done –> TimeLine

Stay tune for more updates!

I bought this Sapphire 5870 Vapor-X as well after seeing it on the shelf of Fuwell, love the look of the cooler at first glance after seeing it on some reviews. But my cousin was telling me that the egg cooler for my 5770 ( pic below ) looks better

Cost $50 more than the usual 5870 thou. Argh…

Here’s a pic to show the difference in length of 5770 and 5870.
Quite frustrated that I couldn’t overclock the 5770, the 2nd monitor will always flickers even with a bump of 5mhz to either core/memory.
*waves goodbye at the 2 months old Asus 5770*

Manage to OC my i7 920 to 3.78ghz with an idle temp of 38-39celcius, tortured overnight and peak at 72celcius with a voltage of 1.22V. I guess it could go lower than that, will try to lower the voltage more when I’m free

January 2010…suppose to be saving money period! aiks…

HAF 932 is a full ATX tower…it really lives up to its name – High Air Flow. Brandy the n00b dog likes new stuff…he sneaks into the room without us noticing and I chase him out after that, what if he swallows my processor…

HAF932 compared to my old rig…

This is the first time I assemble a PC on my own and I’ve to admit, it was damn fun!

Even with the help of Shuant, it took us hours haha

Will run PRIME95 later on and will try to OC the processor when I’ve the time, quite disappointed as initially I wanted to get a ATI5850, OCZ Ram and Samsung F3 spinpoint hdd but I couldn’t wait no more…so I just go for what is available on the shelf…bah…nonetheless, I’m quite satisfied with the system now </self-console>

I got too excited and didn’t really take photos of every parts and started to unbox them and started with the assembling asap.

SONY 小笔电可以放在裤子口袋
也太白痴了吧！！什么号称可以放在口袋里，SONY所有的人都瞎了吗？
没看到还有一大截在外面喔？！

My own translation:

Sony netbooks can fit into pocket…it’s utterly moronic!

Sony thinks everyone is blind?

There’s still one big portion outside!

Sony netbook

再来看看，别的电脑也能放进口袋

Let’s see, other computers also can fit into the pocket