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June 20, 2014

Temporarily disable Eclipse plugin

For my friends project i wanted to restart eclipse plugin disabled so that it is possible to understand whether plugins cause the problems in the code. So i hare post that tip and hope someone would save there time finding bugs with plugins.

Some plugins allow controlling their load-on-startup behavior. These will be listed in the preferences, under General → Startup and Shutdown. If the plugin provides view, you will need to close those views (in all perspectives) for this to work.

You can simply uptick and select only the necessary plugins to be loaded.

June 16, 2014

Install Google Play on Genymotion 2.0

So the new Genymotion 2.0 no longer comes with Google API’s and for me that just a buzz kill and I admit I have enjoyed the luxuries of having the Play Store in my virtual devices. So I have a solution for you!

In Genymotion create a new device. In my test case I created a
Nexus One – 4.3 – API 18 480×800
Download  Google Apps zip file. For my virtual device I used the latest Universal package ( 20130813)
Start the virtual device and once it is up and running drag and drop the zip file onto the device.



Next you will get a file flashable dialog click ok.


You will continue to see the File Transfer dialog let it run. You will (may) get errors that pop up just ignore them for now. When you get a file flashed successful dialog, click ok.


Errors may be something related to a Google App like Search or Play. Click Ok.

Restart the virtual device. You may still be getting error dialogs like the one below. just click ok and carry on.




 If the Add Google Account Screen does not come up right away go to the apps and open up Play Store this should trigger the Add a Google Account screen.  go ahead and select the option appropriate for you and sign in or create an account. During the process you still may get errors like before just ignore it and click OK.



You will be prompted to agree with license agreement and so forth. Continue on.
Next you should see the Play Store open.
First thing I recommend doing is updating Google apps:
Menu button>My apps>update all



From this point on you should be good to go.
I went through this process a number of times and sometimes the apps did not show up in “My apps” section however if I searched for the app it would allow me to update.

If you are working with a different API this may work or you can try one of the other versions of Google Apps.   I hope this has been helpful.











June 16, 2014

How to get the real URL Target of a Short URL or Tiny URL?



Important Reasons to use a Unshort Tool

To use a Unshort Tool, UnShortener or DeShortener is always a good idea. Don't forget all the Pishing and Malware out there. The tools help you to find out the real target of any link and helps you not to end up on a Trojan site or any site which tries to install software you don't need and want.

Make a short URL long again

Find out the real URL of a Short Tiny URL

If you use Twitter, Facebook, Google or any other popular website, you find Short Url's everywhere. There are different names for this kind of links:
Short URL, Small URL, Tiny URL, but it's all the same.
If you see a link like this url.xy/123 you can't see the web site target, either you click on it, or you try to unshort such a short url. If you use a tool like real-url.org or unshort.me , it's easy and simple. The unshort tools find out the target address of a short link.

NOTE: You will only see the Final Target! What does this mean?
The used example is perfect to explain it.

(The links didn't work, this is only for example!)

(1) url.xy/123 links to ->
(2) url2.xy
this links to ->
(3) url3.xy

As you can see shows a unshort tool as target address (3), even if the first target was (2) and not (3).
Today internet marketers use tracking tools from different companies with long cryptical url's. The good news is that you can use a unshort tool also to find out the real target of such links.

During testing i noticed, that not all free URL Unshortener work correct.
Best results i got with the tools you find listed here.

Best Free Unshort URL Tools - Unshort any URL

real-url.org
unshort.me .....my recommendation
unshorten.com

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