If you ever worked with native languages such as c or c++, or even with managed / semi-compiled languages such as Microsoft .NET or even action script, you would have probably noticed the debug/release option in the compiler/IDE. However, search as you want, you wont find this compiler option in java, nor in its popluar IDE such as eclipse or Netbeans…
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Does Java have release compilation mode or only debug mode ?
October 30th, 2011Why facebook cannot be logged in securely through https on mobile devices?
August 30th, 2011If you ever tried to use your phone browser and point it to https://www.facebook.com, you will notice that you will be redirected to http://m.facebook.com/randomString. It feels like you cannot access facebook securely from your mobile device.
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How to download youtube movies to your android phone and play them (KeepVid + MX)
July 24th, 2011If you ever needed to download youtube movies on your Android phone, for offline viewing but couldnt do it, here are simple steps to achieve it:
First you need to download the great application called : KeepVid
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Simple build.xml sample for eclipse
July 10th, 2011I never quite understood why Eclipse IDE never creates a build.xml (ant build file) when creating a new project. Netbeans creates one by default, but not eclipse 
Even if you import a java project without a build.xml, Eclipse does not create one…
Long story short, if you want a simple build.xml check out this sample.
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Dermandar.com – Easy, free, online panorama for ur iphone, Made in Lebanon !
July 3rd, 2011
Dermandar.com
In case you have been living under a rock for a while and didnt hear about Dermandar.com, well, here is a short story about it:
Dermandar has been entirely developed in Lebanon. The team ( just 2 
) released a web version of the panoramic software then moved on to create an iphone app. The iphone app hit more than 500000 downloads in less than 1 month, that is certainly a record for Lebanon and surely rarely seen on the international level.
What make this app so special is its simplicity of use matched with great results. If ur an iphone user u must check it out here. Not only it is great it is also free, so no reason not to try it !
PS: An android version is coming soon, so stay alert if ur an android user!
How to install apps for the android not available on Android market.
June 8th, 2011The best (and securest) place to get an application for your Android device is Google official market place. But what would you do if you know the app exists but is not showing in Google market place ? The reason for this is that the market place is “Location aware” meaning that it will detect your country and show you only the results relevant to your country (not all app are available in every country).
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HTC desire battery life
May 22nd, 2011You hear and read a lot about how HTC desire phones behaves poorly from a battery point of view. A lot of people are even saying that it doesn’t last a single day and had to be recharged… Well the truth is I faced this problem too when I first got my used HTC device.
While I was using it to the max (games, music, wifi, skype…) I was hoping to get more than 18 hours of battery life !
The problem was due to the first golden rule of smart phones:
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HTC Desire Android 2.2
May 14th, 2011It’s been just 1 week that I got my HTC desire running Android 2.2 and I have to say that I love this amazing device !
asterisk – agent login MOH (music on hold) issue
May 9th, 2011When upgrading to asterisk 1.4.36, I had an issue with MOH when agents logged in.
The issue was that I did hear the default moh file when the agent login, although I was using the same config file (agents.conf and musiconhold.conf) as before.
For some reason musiconhold application is unable to open the /dev/null file/directory, and whenever the class is inaccessible,asterisk plays the ‘default’ class (loops forever on default moh).
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