Android Cube - Work in Progress

A cube consists of 6 equal squares joined at right angles in a three dimensional space where X is the horizontal axis, Y is vertical and Z represents depth.

So in the diagram below where the side of each square is a length of 2, one would define vertices A, B and C in terms of (X, Y, Z) as follows:

A. (-1, +1, -1):
B. (-1, -1, -1);
C. (+1, -1, -1);

Note that every Z value on the front facing square will be -1; the Z values on the rear square will be +1.

ICE Cyber Crime Center Virus

Sony VAIO came into shop with the Windows Vista desktop blocked by a fraudulent screen requesting ransom. Here's what I did to the customer's satisfaction. 

•  Power on while tapping F8, but no back up to restore
•  Power on with F2 or F12 for BIOS set up
•  Change boot order: 1.CD, 2. USB, 3. HD
•  Power on with hiren boot USB. 
•  Copied bootmgr from D to C, but still locked out on restart.
•  Use hiren's Windows mini XP to back up user data.
•  Power on while tapping F10 and wipe C: to original factory.
• Advise user not to surf internet as administrator.

Stock Market and Options Trading App on Google Play

This site at finance.avafin.com would be a good feed into my market analysis app at Google Play

I'll get working on it. For now, maybe I'll just create a webview to make things simple.

Meanwhile, here is a link to all my financial apps at Google Play.

Android Integrated Development Environments

	Android Studio	Eclipse	AIDe
Installation:	Good on Linux	Good on Windows	Good on Tablet
Interface	Google style clean	Lots of tools	Good for tablet
Debugging	Better debug pane	Inconsistent and slow	LogCat on device
Compilation	Slow	Slow	Slow
Speed	Okay on Linux	Slow on Windows	Okay on tablet
Publishing	Fluid and keystore built in	Multi-step and awkward	Fluid and keystore built in

We Work Tech Meet Up in Hollywood

A fireside chat with Grindr's Lukas Sliwka covered the following:

• Scalability from PHP to Java and Ruby on Rails.
• Do not reinvent the wheel
• Sanitizing member profiles
• Approving user uploads
• User analytics to user preferences
• Pattern recognition and heuristics
• Shortened deliverable cycles.
• App ratings and client app crashes

More Enhancements to the W.A.R. app at Google Play

The Widespread Augmented Reality networking app at Google Play allows both photos and notes to be posted at geographical points of interest.

The Camera activity implies an intent with:

Intent intent = new Intent(MediaStore.ACTION_IMAGE_CAPTURE);
intent.putExtra(MediaStore.EXTRA_OUTPUT, pictureFile);
startActivityForResult(intent, TAKE_PICTURE);

The EXTRA_OUTPUT is passed as the "data" argument to:

@Override
protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);

The data is then passed to the activity ImageView field with the following conversions:

case TAKE_PICTURE:
       
        try {
        Uri picFile = data.getData();
        String picPath = picFile.getPath();
        yourSelectedImage=BitmapFactory.decodeFile(picPath,ops);
        getChosenImage().setImageBitmap(yourSelectedImage);

The Note activity is proprietary, for now. Notes are saved as images and BLOBs and therefore not susceptible to nosy bots or web crawlers.

Sign up with an anonymous handle at SpiderOnFire (a reference to enhanced web crawling).

Recover Full Capacity of USB Drive

1) Type "DISKPART" from the Command Prompt 
2) Type "LIST DISK" to see what number your USB drive is listed as.
3) Type "SELECT DISK 2" 
4) Type "SELECT PARTITION 1" 
5) Type "DELETE PARTITION". 
6) Type "CLEAN". 
7) Type "CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY" to create a new, full-size partition.
8) Type "EXIT"
Now create a boot disk with http://pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html