Retrieve unread sms in Android

    In order to get unread sms messages in an Android application you need to setup a filter "read = 0" as shown below. 

Retrieve sms messages on a particular date in Android

    In order to get sms messages received on a particular date in an Android application you need to setup a filter which selects messages on the basis of date comparison as shown below.

Running embedded linux on mpc8572ds using NFS and TFTP servers

    In this post I will mention the steps that should be performed to run embedded linux on powerpc board mpc8572ds using NFS and TFTP servers. I have used mentor embedded linux for this purpose. In order to boot the target with linux we need to perform following steps.

• Setting up NFS Server
• Setting up TFTP Server
• Running embedded linux on target

Starting VNC on Ubuntu 12.04 with full desktop

    In this post I will mention the method which can be used to display full Ubuntu 12.04 desktop to VNC clients. I have noticed that starting from Ubuntu 12.04, VNC clients don't show full desktop. First I will mention the steps to install VNC Server and connect a client to it. I will also show the terminal only desktop which is the default screen. Then I will mention the method which can be used to display full desktop

Setting up VNCServer on CentOS

    VNCServer is used to give control of the screen to remote clients. VNCServer allows to share different desktop perspective to different client using port numbers. In this session I will explain to setup VNCServer on CentOS 6.4 desktop machine.

How to terminate linux process

    In this post I will mention some of the ways which can be used to kill a process in Linux environment. Most of the command line methods discussed here are also applicable to embedded linux targets.

Rotating video using VLC media player

    I mostly make mistake of recording rotated videos using my phone, so I end up seeing a lot of my videos on my pc while my neck is tilted. Luckily VLC media player has an option of rotating videos while they play. First you need to download VLC media player from http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html, it’s completely free and supported for all platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Unix.