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Edward Berridge

THE PURVEYORS of 3D desktop computer software, Bump Technologies has told the world plus dog that it has been bought by the search outfit Google.

The Canadian startup was created by a University of Toronto student as a masters thesis project. Its software works on both Windows and Macs to make screens appear more similar to real desktops where boxes can be moved or stacked using gestures or a stylus.

Bump said that more than three years ago, "we set out to completely change the way people use their desktops." Well, it does not seem to be doing that. The software will no longer be available for sale, and users wont be able to download updates.

In short its technology might one day see the light of day in a Google product, but it is certainly not going to be changing the way people use the desktop any time soon.

It is not clear how much Google paid for the company, however it seems to have been opening its cheque book lately after pulling back on acquisitions during the recession.

It has announced nine acquisitions this year, mostly of small companies, including Labpixies, an Israeli developer of mini applications such as games and calendars that Internet users can post on their personal pages.

Meanwhile Goolge has also invested in a "utility-scale renewable energy project that generate 169.5 megawatts of power, enough to power more than 55,000 homes."

The wind farms, run by Nextera Energy Resources, were part of a larger $190 million capital raising.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1604045/google-buys-3d-software-company

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In this tutorial I will gonna teach you how to hard reset your Karbonn A21. This can fix the following issues that you are experiencing in your phone:

In this post I will illustrate how to make settings for Google maps v2 API in Android Manifest.

1. Create an Android project.

• Use API level 11 or above for minimum required SDK.
• Give the same package name which you gave when you are obtaining the API key from Google.
• Keep other settings as default 

 2. We need to make some changes Android Manifest.xml

• Open the Manifest.xml and add following permissions as a child of the <manifest> element

     

• Google Maps Android API uses OpenGL ES version 2 to render the map there for we need to define the feature in Manifest file. Add following lines as a child of the <manifest> element.

• Add the API key by adding following lines as a child of the <application> element, inserting it just before the closing tag </application> 

• Change the android:value="AIzaSyARrx5gAxtNJCHUBvwyIz4uZEFAm3R60kI" with the API key given by Google
• Finally your Manifest.xml should be like this.

3. To use Google maps in our Android project we have to add Google play services lib project.

• First check whether Google Play services are installed.
• To do that open Android SDK manager expand the Extras.
• Check the status of  Google Play Services is installed if it is not installed you have to install it first.

• Then to import the Google play services lib project in to the work space, in Eclipse select
  File >> Import >> Android >> Existing Android Code Into Workspace

• Click Next and select the Root Directory, browse to the google-play-services_lib. In my case it is in C:Androidadt-bundle-windows-x86-20130219sdkextrasgooglegoogle_play_serviceslibprojectgoogle-play-services_lib
• Most of the time you can find it under the sdkextrasgooglegoogle_play_serviceslibproject directory.  
• Select the Copy project into workspace and click Finish.

4. The next step is to add the lib project into the our newly created projects references.

• Right click on the project select Properties >> Android and then click on Add button under Library

•  In the project selection window select google-play-services_lib project and then click  OK

•  Then under the libraries there should be the google-play-services_lib project with a green tick.

 5. As the final step we have to add the fragment for the map in to xml layout.

• Open the res >> layout and activity xml lay out file and copy following code to create the fragment.

• For this simplest example dont need to do any change for the Activities java file, keep it as it is.

import android.os.Bundle;
import android.app.Activity;
import android.view.Menu;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

 @Override
 protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
  super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
  setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
 }

 @Override
 public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
  // Inflate the menu; this adds items to the action bar if it is present.
  getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.main, menu);
  return true;
 }
}

Now you can run the project. If you are running this on Android emulator you have to do certain installations on AVD I will describe that in my next post.