Windows 8 Consumer Preview Releasing Today!

To all Windows' Fans .. users and developers, Windows 8 Consumer Preview (which traditionally called Beta version) will be released in a few hours.

This version will include (if not more) the following new features and updates:

• new Metro-style applications!
• more online features - save file directly to SkyDrive
• picture identification using camera instead of password

Please stay tuned for more updates!

Android Sample Code: Battery Status

Here I want to share Battery Status Application that output as below:

Before I share my source code for Battery Status Application for Android. Below are the tools that you need to develop an Android Application or Widget:

1. Android Development Environment - eclipse
2. Android SDK
3. Android Virtual Device Manager

*For details on how to do the installation, you may refer to Android Developers page.

For this Battery Status Application, below is the general outline:

• The layout is using ListView as the main and TextView for the individual row.
• Upon starting the application, a thread will be created to pull the battery info in 1-second interval. The battery info is being pulled using the BroadcastReceiver.

Get Infinite Storage @ Bitcasa

A potential competitor to Dropbox called Bitcasa has launched their website recently with the tagline: "Get Infinite Storage".

To try you may register by clicking this link.

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Truecrypt 7.1a

TrueCrypt has released new version 7.1a. Starting version 7.1, TrueCrypt now supports Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. As I mentioned before in my previous post, TrueCrypt is the best open source encryption software.

You may visit TrueCrypt.org to download.

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Android App Development

Recently I got an Android Phone so I think why not I try to develop Android Apps. Right now I managed to run simple app to display battery level and voltage. I'll be posting more soon on this.

Stay Tuned.

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Firefox 10 is here!

Now Firefox 10 is available! Let us support this free browser!

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