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Snippet: fix Screen Orientation in a Qt/S60 app

Aug 11th

I follow the Qt/S60 Mailing list, that is turning out to be a very interesting and active ML, and the Qt Labs blog, always full of very good code, written directly by the guys of Qt Software. I thought could be nice to start to post some of the stuff I’m learning.

#include <eikenv .h>
#include <eikappui .h>
#include <aknenv .h>
#include <aknappui .h>
// ...
// lock orientation
CAknAppUi* appUi = static_cast<caknappui *>( CEikonEnv::Static()->AppUi() );
if ( appUi ) //< Actually, this will always pass. It's a "static_cast" after all...
{
   appUi->SetOrientationL( CAknAppUi::EAppUiOrientationPortrait );
}
// ...

Today’s source is: Nokia Forum.

Android Dev Phone 1: Official Updates

Apr 5th

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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For the once of you that tried “home made ways” to update their ADP1, like my previously published how-to, this news can be interesting.

Google and HTC finally managed to push-out an official page on the HTC site, to explain step-by-step how to update firmware and baseband of the device.

I just did it, having a very pleasant and straightforward experience.
The phone seems to be way more stable, bug-free and the battery lasts for more then 50 seconds

Enjoy!

Personalize your $PS1

Apr 21st

Posted by Detro in Curiosity

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Mine looks like this.
A very patriotic one, isn’t it?

The code to make the Bash prompt looks like mine is (~/.bashrc):

case $TERM in
	xterm*|rxvt*)
		TITLEBAR='[\033]0;\u@\h:\w\007]'
		;;
	*)
		TITLEBAR=""
		;;
esac;

PS1="${TITLEBAR}\n[\033[0;0m][\033[0;32m]time: \
[\033[0m][\033[1;31m]\t[\033[0m][\033[0;0m]]-\
[[\033[0m][\033[0;32m]host: [\033[0m]\
[\033[1;31m]\h[\033[0m][\033[0;0m]]-\
[[\033[0m][\033[0;32m]user: [\033[0m][\033[1;31m]\u\
[\033[0m][\033[0;0m]]-[[\033[0m][\033[0;32m]bash: \
[\033[0m][\033[1;31m]\v[\033[0;0m]]\n\
[\033[0;0m][[\033[0;32m]cwd: [\033[0m][\033[1;31m]\w\
[\033[0m][\033[0;0m]]# "

Thanks to Bash Prompt HOWTO.

Speed up Mail.app

Mar 5th

Posted by Detro in IT / Comp-Sci / Code

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vacuum
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BRRRRRUUUUUUUUUMMMMM!

Anyone that use Mail.app (the “official” mail client on Mac OS X) knows that the greater mailboxes become, the slower Mail.app goes. I don’t know how many email I have, but the oldest is from the 2002 (I have cutted older because they became useless).

Today, I found an interesting link on TUAW: A faster way to speed up Mail.app on Hawk Wings.

Starting from that tips, I have expanded it to vacuum every table in the SQLite3 database used from Mail.app to index our emails.

Continue to see the mini-howto. More >