Black Friday Web Hosting Sale

My host, Arvixe, is having a 48 hour Black Friday sale offering 50% off web hosting FOR LIFE. They offer the best options I have ever seen for Windows ASP.NET hosting then any other host for the cost. They also offer Linux hosting at even lower prices then the Windows ASP.NET hosting.

For example, I have unlimited disk space, monthly data transfer, dedicated application pools, domain aliases, subdomains, ftp accounts, pop3/imap email accounts, MySQL databases, ODBC DSNs, and MSSQL 2008 Databases. And I pay ~$8.00 a month. If you use the coupon code “Black Friday”, this will only cost you ~$4.00 a month!

Arvixe has LIVE customer service via phone available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. They also have Live Chat available as well. I have never had any issue reaching someone when I had an issue (that was usually my fault). They were always quick in resolving the issue as well as explaining what the cause was.

The coupon code “Black Friday” will be valid from 12:00AM PST Thursday, November 24th 2011 through 11:59:59PM PST Friday, November 25th 2011.

Arvixe Black Friday Sale

Mount Manager License 3 Day “Black Friday” Sale!

Following the strange times that all the stores seem to be having this Black Friday, I am having my own “Black Friday” sale on the license for Mount Manager. If you buy the license for Mount Manager between now and 11:59PM CST on Friday 11/25/2011, you will save $1.00 on the cost of the license.

If you do not yet see the lower price, try again later, the market has to push the changes out before it takes affect.

Purchase License from the Android Market

Eclipse Color Theme

To go along with the other themes that I have posted here in the past based on Coding Instinct, here is a Coding Instinct theme for Eclipse Color Theme. The site also has a download in EPF format (Eclipse Preferences).

Eclipse Color Theme (XML) – for Eclipse Color Theme Plugin
Eclipse Preferences (EPF) – for Eclipse Import

Connecting to Nook Color w/ CyanogenMod7 via ADB over USB

The Nook Color is a great device, especially when CyanogenMod is installed on the device. The only issue I was having with the device, I was unable to connect to the device via ADB over USB.

I followed the steps here, but was still unable to see the device via ADB. After looking through the “fix” that was linked from XDA, I noticed that it modifies, or creates a file in %USERPROFILE%\.android\ called adb_usb.ini. That file contains vendor id’s for the devices and it contains 0x2080. As I was digging around looking to fix this issue, I noticed that in the root of my Android SDK installation there is a folder called .android. In that folder, just like the one in my user profile, there is a file called adb_usb.ini. This file is empty, except a couple comments describing the file. I added the 0x2080 to this file, then I restarted adb by doing an adb kill-server, then an adb start-server.

Now when I do adb devices, I can see the Nook Color and I can perform any adb or shell commands on the device via adb over USB.

New version of Mount Manager available

I published a new version of Mount Manager last night that addresses some issues along with adding new functionality.

• Fixed bug when mounting / unmounting a share that contains a “space”
• Fixed bug when mounting / unmounting when mount point contains a “space”
• Fixed bug if the share path or mount point contains a trailing slash
• Changed the default mount point “base” to /sdcard/cifs/ instead of /mnt/cifs/. This eliminates the need to remount / as read/write. If you have mounts already defined to /mnt/cifs/, I suggest that you move them to /sdcard/cifs/ otherwise you will get errors when mounting and you will manually have to remount / as read/write.
• Added a built-in file/folder browser used for selecting the mount point or browsing for module files to load.
• Added ability to browse for network shares. Some machines are not browsable, depending on how the shares are set up. In these cases, you will just have to manually enter the share path.
• Updated the admob library to the latest version.