But we’re all tekkies here, we solve stuff, and don’t complain about it And we’re using free software to do it, yummy!

All you need is PhoneDirector to get your Nokia agenda on the Mac. Just install it and follow the instructions, you should be just fine. After you get all this, export them into a .vcf file, we’ll need it in a moment.

Now, to get this info in the Android is really a piece of cake. Go to the Contacts settings in Gmail and import the .vcf file you generated with PhoneDirector. Then go to your Android phone and sync your contacts. Ta-da! Welcome to the Google world!

NB: if you’re having a hard time finding the Contacts in the Gmail app, like I did, look immediately under your labels list.

The above steps weren’t good for you? Then you might need to take a look at this.

• open a terminal window and make sure you navigate to the home directory

cd ~

• open your profile settings using the full path to your editor (I use nano):

/usr/bin/nano .profile

• make sure your PATH setting contains at least the following information:

export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:

• make the shell reload your profile

. ./.profile

Now we’re talking! You can ls and sudo again!

How do I quickly change my emulator from portrait to landscape and viceversa?

Use Ctrl + F11 to test around.

Can I only improve the layout and use no extra code?

The short answer is yes, definitely.

The layouts in /res/layout are applied to both portrait and landscape, unless you specify otherwise. Let’s assume we have /res/layout/home.xml for our homepage and we want it to look differently in the 2 layout types.

1. create folder /res/layout-land (here you will keep your landscape adjusted layouts)
2. copy home.xml there
3. make necessary changes to it
4. run the application in the emulator and test it using the Ctrl + F11 combination

Don’t forget to have fun!

Both do get minimized in the taskbar, isn’t this cool?

And here’s an example, as well:

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See it in action.

-- Step #1: prepare the ground
CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS `test`;

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `test`.`test_count_distinct`;

CREATE TABLE `test`.`test_count_distinct` (
  `id` INT(11) NOT NULL auto_increment
      PRIMARY KEY,
  `title` VARCHAR(50) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
  `date_created` TIMESTAMP NOT NULL DEFAULT 0,
  `date_updated` TIMESTAMP NOT NULL
      DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
      ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
);

-- using NULL insert for a timestamp column is
--    just like using NOW()
-- @link http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/4.1/en/timestamp.html
INSERT INTO `test`.`test_count_distinct` ( `title`, `date_created` )
VALUES
  ( 'value',   NULL )
, ( 'value 1', NULL )
, ( 'value 2', NULL )
, ( 'value',   NULL )
, ( 'value 1', NULL )
, ( 'value 2', NULL )
, ( 'value',   NULL )
, ( 'value 3', NULL )
;

Now let’s find out how many different values are there in the `title` column, and how many times each value occurs:

-- Step #2: do work
--          here is where we find out
--          different values of `title` and
--          the number of their occurrences
SELECT
        DISTINCT `t`.`title` AS `title`,
        COUNT( `t`.`title`) AS `cnt`
    FROM `test`.`test_count_distinct` t
    GROUP BY `title`
    ORDER BY `cnt` DESC
;

And the result will look like:

+---------+-----+
| title   | cnt |
+---------+-----+
| value   |   3 |
| value 2 |   2 |
| value 1 |   2 |
| value 3 |   1 |
+---------+-----+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

You can get the code here.