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Mobile atlas installer for Android

Mobile atlas installer for Android

June 8, 2012August 14, 2012 Pygmalion
We want to ship OSM tiles in our APK and install them on the SD card for offline use. First create the offline map for several zoom levels in Mobile Atlas Creator. Be sure to set the atlas format to o... Read More
Android app: German license plates / Deutsche Kfz-Kennzeichen

Android app: German license plates / Deutsche Kfz-Kennzeichen

December 27, 2011October 29, 2013 Pygmalion
Search for the city, district or institution that the abbreviation on a German car number plate refers to. Also works on the way, without a data connection. Suche nach Stadt, Landeskreis oder Institut... Read More
Retrieving Google geocoded co-ordinates in Python

Retrieving Google geocoded co-ordinates in Python

August 3, 2011August 3, 2011 Pygmalion
Import the json and the urllib2 modules: import json, urllib2 Programmatically contruct the URL to meet the requirements of the the geocoding webservice, i.e. make it look like this (click to view the... Read More
LPI training

LPI training

July 30, 2011July 30, 2011 Pygmalion
Our LPI trainer is yet another work in progress. You can use our first sample questions to train for LPIC-1, exam 101: http://pygmalion.nitri.de/lpi.... Read More
Prisoner’s dilemma on Android

Prisoner’s dilemma on Android

June 12, 2011March 2, 2014 Pygmalion
The old prisoner’s dilemma applet has been revitalized on Android. It was a fit occasion to clean up and rewrite those messy sources from the nineties.... Read More
Posting to a Facebook wall using the Graph API

Posting to a Facebook wall using the Graph API

May 28, 2011September 2, 2012 Pygmalion
First, instantiate a new Facebook object. Nothing exciting here: require '../src/facebook.php';   $facebook = new Facebook(array( 'appId' => '..............', 'secret' => '............ Read More
Convert a WEP passphrase to hex

Convert a WEP passphrase to hex

April 18, 2011November 12, 2012 Pygmalion
Traveling the world you may find yourself in a place where the Wi-Fi access point is WEP protected. The owner can only provide you with an alphanumeric passphrase, whereas your Linux notebook expects ... Read More
Vodafone UMTS: unwanted image compression

Vodafone UMTS: unwanted image compression

February 15, 2011February 15, 2011 Pygmalion
When surfing the web over Vodafone UMTS in Germany, you may notice that JPEG images are compressed and displayed in low quality. Press Ctrl-F5 (Strg-F5) in your browser to see the original images on t... Read More
Wardriving using an Ubuntu 10.04 notebook and a Garmin Etrex

Wardriving using an Ubuntu 10.04 notebook and a Garmin Etrex

February 3, 2011November 1, 2012 Pygmalion
Most GPS software that ships with Ubuntu 10.04 uses gpsd to retrieve data from the GPS receiver. So make sure that you have gpsd installed. Unfortunately the new JSON protocol used by gpsd is not supp... Read More
Default Glade window sizes

Default Glade window sizes

October 21, 2010 Pygmalion
By default, GtkWindow objects are displayed as compact as possible. In order to specify the preferred window dimensions, first set the visibility of the window to “No” in Glade Interface D... Read More
Using a cellphone as a GPRS modem in Ubuntu (8.04)

Using a cellphone as a GPRS modem in Ubuntu (8.04)

May 1, 2010May 1, 2010 Pygmalion
We’re using a LG KC 910 Renoir. Connect the phone to your computer over the USB cable. Accept the connection in “PC Suite” mode or something similar (that is: not as a mass storage d... Read More
Adding a profile box and posting to the feed on facebook

Adding a profile box and posting to the feed on facebook

September 24, 2009August 15, 2012 Pygmalion
Building an app is easy. At least that’s what facebook states. Yet it can be quite a challenge to get started if you’re not famliar with facebook’s API as the documentation can be qu... Read More
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