The reason for it is your App is using 16bits per pixel color depth settings. To force your app to use 32 bits per pixel you have to set the attribute BitsPerPixel value to 32 in the App Manifest File.

You can find the Windows Phone App Manifest file from Solution Explorer under properties and the file name is by default WMAppManifest.xml.

Your file should look something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Deployment xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/windowsphone/2009/deployment" AppPlatformVersion="7.1">
<App xmlns="" BitsPerPixel="32" ProductID="{}" Title="App Title"...

Nothing guarantees that devices will have 32 bit deep display hardware but all the newer devices should have it. And remember BitsPerPixel is supported only in Mango.

But remember that this will require more memory and processing power from the phone, so more battery power will be drained faster. So only use it when it’s necessary.

Other way is to just dither your image to 16bit on Photoshop if you are using PNG images instead of built in gradients.

You can compare you statistics by going to Google Analytics, click on “Vistors” -> “Browser Capabilities” -> “Browsers.” The choose the “AdSense Revenue” tab in the chart. From drop down from choose “AdSense Revenue” to “AdSense CTR” or ”AdSense eCTR”.

The most surprising result is Android/Mobile users, who are leading with $9.41 eCPM, which means approximately a thousand page-views will earn $9.41. The site is not optimized for phones or tablets, neither I try to trick users to make accidental clicks.

Internet Explorer is second with $5.69, the graph below shows eCPM with different IE versions. IE with Chrome Frame is also in the top, but the small sample size makes it irrelevant.

Possible reasons why Firefox, Chrome and other browsers eCPM is significantly lower might to do with IE users not being so web savvy to ignore the ads or or user AdBlock.

sendBroadcast(new Intent(Intent.ACTION_MEDIA_MOUNTED, Uri.parse("file://"+ Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory())));

This is how to send a broadcast to an intent on which the MediaScanner service starts itself automatically. The whole external storage (SD card usually) searched for media to find new files, deletes the ones that don’t exist anymore update thumbnails etc.

Since its birth in 1994, Javascript has come a long way. Today it’s one of the most popular programming languages on the web because of high popularity of AJAX based web-applications. Also the rise of micro-frameworks such as jQuery (also Prototype, Moo Tools etc) which have reduced dramatically the complexity of code developers needed to write, it is well tested, has a ton of plug-ins, has a large development community and reduced development time.

And lately even Server-Side JavaScript (SSJS) like Node.js which allows you to create high performance, real-time web applications easy. It allows JavaScript to be used end to end, both on the server and on the client. So you only need to learn one language.

Below there is a list of the craziest Javascript implementations I have come across with.

A famous software developer, book author, podcaster and writer of the popular blog Coding Horror,
Jeff Atwood said:

Any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

He called it Atwood’s Law.

1) Face Detection in JavaScript

A Chinese developer Liu Liu has implemented the algorithm using the canvas element. The algorithm is implemented on top of a JS port of a C-based computer vision library made by also the Liu Liu. It works off a grayscale version of the image, and is quite reliable in detecting faces in photographs.
jQuery version is also available.

2) A Turing machine in 133 bytes of JavaScript

A Turing machine is the simplest form of a computer. The concept was invented by Alan Turing in 1936. This was the first computer invented (on paper only). Apparently someone has decided to write a nondeterministic Turing machine simulator in 20 lines JavaScript.

function tm(I,t,e,s,i,c,k) {i=0;while(s!=e){c=t[i];k=(c)?I[s]1[/c]:I[s].B;if(!k)return false;t.splice(i,1,k.w);i+=k.m;s=k.n;}return t;}

And readable version:

function tm(I,tape,end,state,i,cell,current) {
    i = 0;
    while(state != end) {
        cell = tape[i];
        current = (cell) ? I[state][cell] : I[state].B;
        if(!current)
            return false;
        tape.splice(i, 1, current.w);
        i += current.m;
        state = current.n;
    }
    return tape;
}

Someone has overbidded it with only 90 bytes of JavaScript.

function(a,b,c,d,e,f,g){for(e=0;d<c;b[e]=(g=(f=a[d])[b[e]]||f.B).w,e+=g.m,d=g.n);return b}

3) Java Virtual Machine JVM written in JavaScript

Java Virtual Machine JVM written in JavaScript sounds like another level of insanity but it’s true. This isn’t a Java to JavaScript translator but a real JVM that runs byte code. This means it could run any language that compiles to byte code.

4) x86 Emulator written in JavaScript

32bit x86 emulator in JavaScript – a virtual PC that runs inside your browser, using JavaScript. And of course also a Linux kernel that can run inside it, so you can have a full-featured PC inside your browser.

5) “Hello World” in Dart, Compiled to JavaScript

17259 lines of “Hello World” code…
Check also the hillarious comments on GitHub page.

You can purchase you own board from Arduino homepage where the distributors are listed alphabetically by region for about from 40$ depending on model.
Below I have listed top 5 Arduino DIY projects that have impressed me.

1. UberFridge by Elco Jacobs

UberFridge is a homebrew fermentation temperature controller that I have built from my old fridge. It runs on an Arduino Nano and an Asus WL520GU router. UberFridge can control the temperature of a fermenting beer with 0.1 °C accuracy. Temperature graphs and settings can be viewed in a web interface over WiFi.

2. Arduino Controlled Dishwasher

Broken dishwasher repaired with Arduino because of dead control panel. He is using a DS1307 RealTimeClock chip, an Arduino Duemilanove, a 4×20 LCD panel, and 6 relays to control the dishwasher.

3. RGB combination door lock

A custom designed electronic lock instead of numbered keypad, a RGB backlit keypad powered by an Arduino. Instead of typing in numbers, your password is a unique set of colors.
Following parts needed: An electric door strike, A locking door handle (Any hardware store), An Arduino or compatible clone, 1 TIP120 transistor, 1 1N4001 diode, 10 1N4148 diodes, 4 2n2222 transistors, 1 Monome style keypad, 1 Keypad PC board, 8 RGB LED’s, 1 7805 voltage regulator, 4 100 ohm resistors, 2 150 ohm resistors, 8 1 kohm resistors.

4. LED Gmail Notifier

Simple Gmail notifier – the computer checks for new emails in your Gmail account, and then tells the electronics board whether emails have arrived. If they have, the board turns on the output device (the cube). The project author is using an LED Cube with an embedded RBG color cycle. If you don’t happen to have a glowing cube lying around, you can modify this to work with almost any other output device. The author is also explaining how to make a computer software to run the device properly to check the emails.

5. Silencing Celebs with Arduino

Matt Richardson demonstrates how he uses an Arduino to make a celebrity-silencing remote control for your TV. By decoding the closed captioning track in the video signal, the Arduino is able to look for keywords such as “PALIN” or “KARDASHIAN” and mute your TV, protecting your poor ears from having to hear about them ever again.

I suggest you to use mPDF instead. mPDF is also a PHP class which generates PDF files from HTML files. It is based on FPDF and HTML2FPDF, with a number of enhancements. mPDF is more flexible compared to DomPDF when it comes to sophisticated table structures and layouts.

You can change it from category-template.php on line 419, from

function wp_list_categories( $args = '' ) {
 $defaults = array('show_option_none' => __('No categories'));
}

to:

function wp_list_categories( $args = '' ) {
 $defaults = array('show_option_none' => 'What ever you want');
}

Hacking with WordPress core files is not the best idea. If you want to update to a new version, the changes will reverse.

Therefor it is better to add a filter to your themes functions.php file (located in your theme’s directory, if not, then create one)

 function largestZindex(element) {
	var allObjects = $(element);
	var allObjectsArray = $.makeArray(allObjects);
	var zIndexArray = [0];
	var largestZindex = 0;
	for (var i = 0; i < allObjectsArray.length; i++) {
		  var zIndex = $(allObjectsArray[i]).css('z-index');
		  zIndexArray.push(zIndex);
	}
	var largestZindex = Math.max.apply(Math, zIndexArray);
	return largestZindex;
};

How to use ‘find-the-highest-z-index’ jQuery plugin

I have also created jQuery plugin, which you can download from here.
Add the plugin and jquery to your document header and inside the document:

var findHighestZindex = $(selector).findHighestZindex ();

Where selector is the jQuery selector, targeting the elements to find the highest z-index from your document. For an example, alert the variable findHighestZindex to test if it works

 alert (findHighestZindex);

Android Market has bad search results

You can search for an App’s exact name, and it still comes up behind other apps that aren’t even close. For an example I searched for one of my favorite Apps “Who’s Calling” by Johannes Pohl and it comes in 8th position. Most of the Apps before the App I was searching for are not relevant at all. I can’t find the App with the exact name from the market – that shows how useless the search function is.

You would expect the App Market made by Google, the best and most accurate search engine ever, would have better results. Searching for Apps with Google Search works actually better. The query site:market.android.com who’s calling gives me actually the results I would expect.

For some reason Android Market is listing me applications in languages I do not speak. Often search results show me applications in Japanese or in Chinese, even though I made the query in English. The Android Market should ask (or know?) in what languages I’m interested in.

Android Market rating system is useless

The ratings system has no value. Many good apps get just 1 star because users don’t know how to install a widget. Furthermore, users should be able to rate apps by several categories, like user interface, features, speed etc etc. Right now the ratings are device-specific – 1 star, does not work on my phone or I don’t know how to install it. 5 stars, works great on my … phone.

Android Market has too much spam Apps

There are many apps that are mainly spam apps that users do not want. AppBrain has reported that one third of Android Market apps are spam. Most of the apps in Just In category are spam – it’s hard for good apps come forth the spammy ones.