Android emulator patch for configurable IMEI, IMSI and SIM card serial number
My post about hacking the emulator's IMEI number gained a lot of interest, hence I've decided to prepare a patch which makes IMEI, IMSI and SIM card serial configurable on a per-AVD basis. It's necessary to recompile the emulator with the patch applied, so setup your build environment as a first step. I suggest using Ubuntu 10.10 and following the Android compilation hints. Continue reading…
Cherokee SIGSEGV fix accepted
It seems that my patch for the Cherokee redirect handler's SIGSEGV problem has been accepted. That's exactly what I love about open-source software - instead of waiting for the software vendor to fix the problem I can do the correction myself. Just released Cherokee 1.0.9 doesn't contain the fix yet, though, it's going to be included in the next release.
Mac OS hint – color picker
Mac OS X is equipped with a decent color picker dialog, but unfortunately it can be used only from within some host graphic application - there's no standalone color picker. This ColorPicker utility comes to the rescue. Next thing to install is Hex Color Picker, which displays the current color as a hexadecimal number, ready for copy & paste into HTML or CSS file. Now it's perfect, isn't it?