What is Swivl: Swivl is a small gadget for the video loggers.It can track the user movement in multi direction (Right - Left & Up - Down). It has a mount and a marker. The mount follows the marker’s movement and aligns itself to keep you in the frame. Your phone’s camera can be controlled using the marker. No external setups are required.
The problem with self made video and video chat is that the cameras are static and it cannot move along with the user. I was amazed with the number of possibilities Swivl opens for self made videos and video chats.
Nowadays all our phones (iPhone & Android) are coming with higher megapixels. And the video quality is really very good and we always carry our phones. Swivl is designed to hold phones, digi-cams and camcorders. Swivl can be mounted on tripods, so the height can be adjusted.
You can watch the video to find out the possibilities. I’m pre-ordering mine, how about you?
Apple
recently received patent for their iOS start screen feature "slide to unlock". You might have seen the iPhone keynote by Steve
Jobs. He explained the unlock feature is a swipe to the width of the
screen and it is to avoid accidentally unlocking the phone. Android also has the slide feature to unlock the start screen as default option. They also have the custom lock screen pattern through Settings --> Location and security settings --> Use visible pattern. Apple’s
is aggressive in protecting their Intellectual Property or blocking
Android manufacturers (esp. Samsung) from selling their devices.
(Stories of Apple suing Samsung in Dutch, Australia etc and Samsung
suing Apple in Germany) :) Steve
Jobs view of Android is “I will spend my last dying breath if I need
to, and I will spend every penny of Apple's $40 billion in the bank, to
right this wrong. I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen
product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this.” as per Walter
Issacson. Do you think, Apple will sue Google (Android) using this patent??? And what if Google patents the notification feature and sue Apple back??? Lets see only time will reveal us the news... :) Share your thoughts and predictions in the comment section. For more details on the patent: Patently Apple
Sometimes the android emulator hangs with a black screen while booting the emulator. This happens when the emulator is not used for few days or months.
The following steps will help in resolving this issue: 1) Open the AVD manager (Using eclipse: Window -> Android SDK and AVD manager or
AVD manager button in tool bar) 2) The below AVD manager window will open:
3) Select the virtual device which you want 4) Click Start, a small pop up with Launch Option will open 5) Uncheck the "Launch from snapshot" option.
By default, the android emulator will have the "Snapshot" option enabled during AVD creation.
Note: The current removal of "open from snapshot" option will not change the existing setup in the AVD. It is only for the current run.
Share your thoughts (email / comments) on the other ways to overcome this android emulator problem...
