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How to Access Mobile Websites Using Your Desktop Browser

Many websites offer specific interfaces for smartphones, iPads, and other mobile devices. Whether you need to test mobile websites or you’re just curious to see what they look like, you can access them in your desktop browser. You can do this by changing your browser’s user agent — we’ve previously explained what a browser user agent is . Accessing a website with an iPad user agent may also force it to serve you HTML5 video, which is nice if you’re trying to avoid Flash. User Agent Switcher Extensions We have covered how to change your browser’s user agent without installing any other software . However, for ease-of-use, you will probably want to install a browser extension that lets you quickly and easily change your browser’s user agent. You will want to install either User-Agent Switcher for Chrome or User Agent Switcher for Firefox , depending on which browser you use. For Internet Explorer, you may want to try the UAPick User-Agent Switcher add-on. Settin...

8 solid reasons to have CyanogenMod on your Android device

CyanogenMod is the most popular custom ROM for Android devices. While it’s an unofficial build of Android, it probably provides an experience closer to Google’s original vision than the software on your current Android phone or tablet does! We used CyanogenMod 11 for this article. If it supports your device, it’s easier than ever to install thanks to the CyanogenMod installer app. Up-to-Date, Stock Android CyanogenMod provides you with an up-to-date version of Android. It’s also a pure, stock Android experience. Yes, CyanogenMod adds lots of their own tweaks and a handful of apps. However, they respect Google’s interface. The tweaks CyanogenMod adds don’t feel out of place — many of them are just added to the Settings screen as new options. Because it dispenses with the additional bloat a lot of manufacturers and carriers add, it’s also very fast. This is the biggest reason to install CyanogenMod. If it supports your device, it will provide you with a pure, up-to-date An...

Eclipse plug-ins every Developer should use

Eclipse Marketplace continues to be the place to discover interesting and relevant Eclipse plugins. There are over 100,000 successful installs/month of Eclipse-based products via the Eclipse Marketplace client. We have a list of the most popular plugins over the last 30 days and all time. I thought it would be interesting to look at what are the most popular new plugins in the last 12 months. 1.  Maven Integration for Eclipse WTP   – Maven integration with WTP. Also #4 on the most popular chart 2.  JSDT jQuery – jQuery autocompletion support for Eclipse JSDT 3.  Groovy-Eclipse   – Groovy IDE 4.  ZK Studio   – Eclipse plugin for ZK framework 5.  Run-Jetty-Run   – Running a web application in Eclipse should be as simple as ‘clicking run’. 6.  ObjectAid UML Explorer   – UML class and sequence diagram editor 7.  P4Eclipse   – Eclipse plugin for Perforce code management 8.  Bracketeer f...

Micromax YU Yureka vs OnePlus One

Release Micromax YU Yureka smart mobile with Cyanogen has made it complex and is leaving most of the techies and smart mobile freaks in ambiguity to choose a better choice between the One Plus One mobile. Then here we end this ambitiousness with this post which would ensure and helps all the tech freaks and smart device lover who wish to upgrade to the new smart device. Micromax YU Yureka vs OnePlus One: Micromax YU Yureka Launch Indian smart mobile manufacturer Micromax has launched its much awaited and prognosticated smart device YU Yureka which has been classified under YU series of smartphones and operates on latest updated version of Cyanogen OS. What makes it more special of a kind is that its budgetary cost of Rs 8,999 in Indian domestic markets and is a first domestic branded smart device to be launched with Cyanogen OS in India. Though it is powered with Cyanogen OS Micromax YU Yureka appears as Android smartphone with the bewitching and captivating spe...

Most awaited Google’s Chromecast, Nexus 6 in available in India

Google on Tuesday launched the Google Chromecast and Nexus 6 in India to kick off the three-day Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF) starting on December 10. The Chromecast will costs Rs 2,999 and and will be available on snapdeal.com and select Airtel stores across India. Airtel is offering Chromecast customers a range of subscription offers. Existing broadband users can access 60GB of data for 3 months when they purchase a Chromecast, while new customers can get the same, and zero activation fee for their new broadband service. The Nexus 6 from Google & Motorola was also unveiled and will be available to buyers on Google Playstore at Rs 43,999 for the 32GB and Rs 48,999 for the 64GB version. It will be available in Midnight Blue or Cloud White colour options.  Google India said - convenience, variety and availability of latest products across the country were driving the growth of online shopping in India. “We started gosf in 2012 with just 90 partners and i...

How to Decrypt, Unpack, and Edit .apk files (Android, Eclipse, APKTOOL) – Easy as Pie

Yes, you can view or decrypt the XML files of an Android APK file. There is a tool for reengineering 3rd party, closed, binary Android apps. How to do this on your Windows System: Download apktool-install-windows-* file Download apktool-* file Unpack both to your Windows directory Now copy the APK file also in that directory and run the following command in your command: prompt:  apktool d HelloWorld.apk ./HelloWorld This will create and directory “HelloWorld” in your current directory. Inside it you can find theAndroidManifest.xml file in decrypted form and you can also find other XML files inside the"HelloWorld/res/layout" directory. Here HelloWorld.apk is your Android APK file. See the below screen shot for more information: Now that you’re finished. You probably want to this folder into Eclipse and Edit. Alternatively, you can go for below UI based approach: You want to edit apk file(android app) directly without the need o...

How to Remove WhatsApp Blue Ticks aka 'Read Receipt'

Much to the chagrin of its users, WhatsApp quietly introduced read receipts (letting people see exactly when a message is read, not just delivered) earlier this month. The app always showed one tick mark when you sent a message, which changed to two grey ticks when it was delivered. Now, the app shows two blue ticks when the recipient has read your message This feature was rolled out without an update to the app itself. This means that there was no privacy setting to disable read receipts when the feature was rolled out. The lack of this basic feature in WhatsApp really ticked us off, and we had promised that we'd be back with a tutorial on how to disable WhatsApp blue ticks as soon as it was possible. True to our word, here we are now that WhatsApp has unveiled this feature for Android. Here's how to get rid of those annoying blue ticks in WhatsApp - but if you do this, then you won't be able to see the receipts either. If you want to check when other peopl...