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Archive for July, 2010
Share DaysAndDate and get Ads removal code
Jul 8th
Long story short, everybody who recommended DaysAndDate or wrote reviews/shared experiences for it in three places in internet (blog, twitter, forum, etc.) will get an Ads removal code for DaysAndDate as a gift after they emailed the links of above places to william.xue@gmail.com.
If you like the application but hate the Ads, this is a chance to spread the application to world and get ride of the Ads from your device. Two birds with one stone. DO NOT WASTE IT!
It is running from now to 8/8/2010.
Quick introduction:
DaysAndDate tells you how many days between two dates or the date before/after several days. For example, how many days left to your next birthday from now? Or what is the date after your baby has been born 100 days?
Link to the DaysAndDate in Android Market:
market://search?q=pname:com.deskangel.DaysAndDate
使用wine在Mac上运行Win程序
Jul 20th
首先需要安装wine。具体方法参考toyjack’s GeekTalks的博文Mac系统下安装Wine。
用wine运行程序，如果出现找不到mfc42.dll这样的错误，则需要用winetricks下载必要的文件。参考6.5. My application says some DLL or font is missing. What do I do?以及Getting winetricks。
winetricks是一个脚本文件，下载后保存到用户目录（～），然后运行如下命令：
chmod +x winetricks ./winnetricks
在弹出的对话框中，根据所需，如缺mfc42.dll，则选择vcrun6。之后会在～目录下生成.winetrickscache目录，并把vc6redistsetup_enu.exe下载至该目录。
进入该目录，运行
wine vc6redistsetup_enu.exe
在弹出窗口中选择提取文件的存放目录，比如~/tmp，则进入~/tmp，运行
wine vcredist.exe
会把文件提取到~/.wine/drive_c/windows/system32目录。
此时再运行wine app_name.exe应该就可以成功了。
Adjust brightness for Android devices
Jul 19th
AdjBrightness
The settings for brightness of buttons and screen are very rough in Android devices, like in HTC Hero. But if your rom is ROOTED, you can download and install AdjBrightness, which can adjust the brightness of the screen from the value 2 to 255.
There are six predefined values in the main page, simply click one of them to set the brightness. If the predefined values cannot fit your request, just type the brightness value you want in the edit box and set it.
Besides those, in the option page, you can find several settings:
- Auto restore: Tick this if you want AdjBrightness to restore the brightness after the screen turned on.
- Notification: Tick this, AdjBrightness will display a message on screen every after it set the brightness.
- Lock brightness: This is really cool. Tick this if you do not want other applications to change the brightness. After tick this, you needn’t tick the Auto restore.
- Lock off button light: This is for background light of keyboard. If you don’t like the light as well, tick this to turn off and lock it.
You can download this application from Google Market. Just search adjbrightness or access following link in your phone market://search?q=pname:com.deskangel.adjbrightness.
Always, if you encounter any problem, drop me an email.
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