Moazzam's Ramblings

Author: Moazzam

  • A new Android/Windows Mobile phone

    I found this on Russian site of AndroidTeam(androidteam.ru) that a company called Compulab is going to release a new phone called Exada which will run both Android and Windows Mobile. This phone will provide left and right click capability. It will provide a large number of control keys (buttons) and has an ethernet port. I…

  • Processing forms in PHP

    For this article, I will assume that you (the reader) know what a form is and have a general idea of what needs to be done on the HTML side to submit a form. I will cover a bit about what needs to be done but I will not go into details (it will be…

  • Action: Sponsors Sought for U.S. Citizens to be Evacuated from Gaza

    (WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/12/2009) – CAIR today issued a call for American sponsors willing to assist families of U.S. citizens who may be evacuated this week from the Gaza Strip. SEE: U.S. Preparing Evacuation of 150 Americans State Department officials tell CAIR that some of the almost 150 potential evacuees do not have family members in the…

  • Israeli Bullets Hit Home of American Children Trapped in Gaza

    (WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/12/2009) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported today that Israeli bullets hit the house of two American children trapped under bombardment by Israel in the Gaza Strip. CAIR has been seeking State Department assistance in evacuating the two children, ages six and three, along with all the other Americans in Gaza.…

  • Android and Alarms

    Since I joined the Android user groups, there have been a lot of questions about 2 things – databases and alarms. I have already written a post about how to use a database in Android and in this one, I will talk about how to use Alarms. If there are any other topics you would…

  • G2 on the way?

    According to some rumors on IT news websites, some new Android phones will be released in 2009. cellphonesignal.com claims that a phone, G2, is in the making and will be released in January of 2009. Another website claims that it will be released in April. Best of all, G2 will not be locked down to…

  • Debugging services in C#

    Recently, I have had to build a service for Windows and (not unlike everyone else who has tried to do this) I came across a hurdle of not being able to debug my service from the Visual Studio. I had to install the service manually, start it and debug it. Every time after the installation,…

  • Tmobile G1, AT&T and 3G

    Google has released unlocked versions of Tmobile G1 for developers. It costs about $500 and you have to register with Google as a merchant for Android apps ($25 registration fee). Most developers who were (and still are) enthusiastic about G1 and Android failed to realize that G1’s (and Tmobile’s ) 3G network functions on the…

  • Displaying dialogs in Android 1.0

    When I say dialogs, I mean the little alert window that pops up and lets you know about an error that occurred or warns you about something you can’t do. It locks up the whole screen and demands you pay attention to it. I use a dialog to display information about the application. Android has…

  • Sending email from Android

    Sending an email is a very basic functionality (for some applications anyway). Android makes it very easy to do this. All you have to do is create a new intent, setup the content of the email and send it.  Intent in = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_SEND);  in.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_TEXT, “this is the body of the email”);  in.putExtra(Intent.EXTRA_SUBJECT, “Subject”);  in.setType(“message/rfc822”); …