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aapt error for Android Studio on Ubuntu 13.04

While installing and trying to compile a “Hello World” program in Android Studio on Ubuntu 13.04 the following error occured: android-apt-compiler: Cannot run program “…/android-sdk-linux/platform-tools/aapt”: java.io.IOException: error=2, No such file or directory The reason is that aapt relies on some

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Installing Windows 7 Upgrade to VirtualBox SATA Drive

Install Windows XP & Windows 7 First install Windows XP Professional from installation iso image onto a suitably sized IDE drive. I choose 60 GB disk as I intend to upgrade to Windows 7. Once the installation is complete, install Windows

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Remap Caps Lock

Another quick tip. It has been said many times before but it bears repeating – how to remap Caps Lock in Windows to something far less annoying. Caps Lock, apparently a left-over from typewriters where holding down shift required quite

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Using Meld with Mercurial

A quick tooltip. Meld is a nice diff and file comparison tool. It can be used instead of WinMerge or the built in Mercurial diff tool – KDiff3. Where it improves upon WinMerge and KDiff3 is the visualization of differences between

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