Android SDK Release 14

The Android SDK has the tools, sample code, and docs you need to create great apps.

Here´s an overview of the steps you must follow to set up the Android SDK:

* Prepare your development computer and ensure it meets the system requirements.
* Install the SDK starter package.
* Install the ADT Plugin for Eclipse (if you´ll be developing in Eclipse).
* Add Android platforms and other components to your SDK.
* Explore the contents of the Android SDK (optional).

Supported Development Environments:

Eclipse IDE:
* Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) or greater
* Eclipse JDT plugin (included in most Eclipse IDE packages)
* If you need to install or update Eclipse, you can download it from http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.
* Several types of Eclipse packages are available for each platform. For developing Android applications, we recommend that you install one of these packages:
o Eclipse IDE for Java Developers
o Eclipse Classic (versions 3.5.1 and higher)
o Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers
* JDK 5 or JDK 6 (JRE alone is not sufficient)
* Android Development Tools plugin (recommended)
* Not compatible with Gnu Compiler for Java (gcj)

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Stoner secures twelfth pole of season

2011 MotoGP World Champion Casey Stoner has continued his dominant form to secure his twelfth pole position of the season, equalling Mick Doohan's record, and will start from the front of the grid for the final race of the season in Valencia.

With two minutes of the qualifiying session remaining the Australian set a 1.31.861 to cement pole position with a 1.014s lead over Repsol Honda team mate Dani Pedrosa in second.

Ben Spies (Yamaha Factory Racing) managed to pick up the pace in the final moments of the session to qualify in third, pushing a consistent Randy De Puniet (Pramac Racing Team) back on to the second row in fourth, ahead of Alvaro Bautista (Rizla Suzuki) in fifth, who had also put in an impressive performance in the practice sessions.

Valentino Rossi (Ducati Team) completes the second row, qualifying in sixth place ahead of team mate Nicky Hayden in seventh.

Andrea Dovizioso suffered a big crash on his final lap that sent the Repsol Honda rider tumbling into the gravel trap, but the Italian walked away and will start tomorrow's race in eighth.

Cal Crutchlow (Monster Yamaha Tech 3) qualified in eleventh place, behind Hector Barbera (Mapfre Aspar) in ninth and Karel Abraham (Cardion AB Motoracing) in tenth.

1. 27 Casey STONER AUS Repsol Honda Team Honda 309.9 1'31.861
2. 26 Dani PEDROSA SPA Repsol Honda Team Honda 309.4 1'32.875 1.014 / 1.014
3. 11 Ben SPIES USA Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 303.0 1'33.057 1.196 / 0.182
4. 14 Randy DE PUNIET FRA Pramac Racing Team Ducati 305.1 1'33.118 1.257 / 0.061
5. 19 Alvaro BAUTISTA SPA Rizla Suzuki MotoGP Suzuki 305.6 1'33.443 1.582 / 0.325
6. 46 Valentino ROSSI ITA Ducati Team Ducati 303.7 1'33.478 1.617 / 0.035
7. 69 Nicky HAYDEN USA Ducati Team Ducati 304.2 1'33.656 1.795 / 0.178
8. 4 Andrea DOVIZIOSO ITA Repsol Honda Team Honda 306.8 1'33.824 1.963 / 0.168
9. 8 Hector BARBERA SPA Mapfre Aspar Team MotoGP Ducati 307.8 1'34.186 2.325 / 0.362
10. 17 Karel ABRAHAM CZE Cardion AB Motoracing Ducati 306.6 1'34.265 2.404 / 0.079
11. 35 Cal CRUTCHLOW GBR Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 303.1 1'34.329 2.468 / 0.064
12. 65 Loris CAPIROSSI ITA Pramac Racing Team Ducati 303.3 1'34.671 2.810 / 0.342
13. 24 Toni ELIAS SPA LCR Honda MotoGP Honda 313.2 1'34.680 2.819 / 0.009
14. 7 Hiroshi AOYAMA JPN San Carlo Honda Gresini Honda 305.7 1'34.838 2.977 / 0.158
15. 89 Katsuyuki NAKASUGA JPN Yamaha Factory Racing Yamaha 299.9 1'35.999 4.138 / 1.161
16. 41 Josh HAYES USA Monster Yamaha Tech 3 Yamaha 296.1 1'36.042 4.181 / 0.043 (Tom Cambio -MotoGP)

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Crescent Suzuki poised to confirm WSB future

The British-based Crescent Suzuki Racing team are expected to confirm their switch to WSB in 2012. As reported in MCN this week, the current BSB squad have been in on-going discussions with WSB bosses about graduating to the world championship.

The BSB runner-ups proved themselves when they competed as wild cards at this year’s Silverstone WSB round where rider John Hopkins set pole position and secured a top five finish.

Team manager Jack Valentine spent last weekend in Portimao for the final round of WSB and told MCN that his team is more than capable of making an impact on the world scene.

Valentine also confirmed that regardless of whether they race in BSB or WSB it would be a two-man team and given the team’s pedigree they would have no shortage of top riders interested in joining the squad.

Valentine has made no secret of his desire to retain the services of American John Hopkins, who has turned his career around dramatically with the team this year and has years of world championship experience.

Leon Camier is also being strongly linked with the British team. The former BSB champion has spent the last two seasons with the factory Alitalia Aprilia team in WSB. Despite securing a total of seven podiums and seventh in the overall standings this year, he has been unable to deliver the consistency and results he or the team expected. But a closer look at his performances, especially in the second half of the races, gives a clear indication of his potential to be a genuine title contender.

Another linked to the ride is newly crowned BSB champion, Tommy Hill. Hill rode for the team in 2010 and showed his pedigree by beating Hopkins to the title this season, riding a Swan Yamaha. He also has a point to prove in WSB after suffering a torrid time when he raced an Althea Honda in 2009.

An announcement on the team’s future is expected tomorrow, although there may still be some time before the rider-line-up is confirmed. (Michael Guy -World Superbikes)

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Davies confirmed to ride ParkinGO Ducati in 2012

As reported in MCN last week, Chaz Davies will be graduating to WSB in 2012 onboard a Ducati with his current ParkinGO squad.

The six time WSS race winner and 2011 World Supersport champion is set to get a factory supported bike with engineers and will go head to head with the likes of Biaggi, Melandri, Checa along with his fellow countrymen Rea, Haslam, Sykes and Camier in 2012.

He said: “I’m really excited. The package I have ticks all the boxes. I don’t know how I will go in WSB but the Ducati is a proven winning bike and I can’t wait to test it and race it next year.”

For full story see MCN out Wednesday 19th October.

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Freebie Notes 3.50

Freebie Notes is a great little program for users who just want sticky notes with an alarm timer. With Freebie Notes you can create notes displaying on your desktop. Your notes can be displayed immediately after creation or in the certain moments of time. You can create notes of custom sizes and colors and set different types for your notes.

Features:
* create electronic notes (stickers)
* edit stickers in the advanced mode
* specify the date and time of reminder
* customize the default parameters of electronic notes (their size, text, background and title color, position on the desktop, transparency)
* Extra small stickers creation
* “Don’t Show” alarm settings
* Interface languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Maltese, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Greek, Portuguese, Korean, Romanian, Danish, Serbian, Finnish, Czech

What’s New in version 3.50:

* Fixed some minor bugs.

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Icon Configuration Utility 3.3

Icon Configuration Utility is a program that restores your desktop when the icons get rearranged.

Operation is easy – press “Save” to store a particular configuration and “Restore” to reset the icons to the saved positions in the selected configuration file. “Delete” allows you to remove unwanted configuration files from the list.

There is a command line option so that the restoration can be run via HotKeys if required (that is why the script warns that it should be compiled for full functionality). You can decide what to do with any icons that have been added since you last saved the configuration file – the default is to put them in the top-left corner, but you can also banish them way off-screen or, more sensibly, specify a location for them.

System Requirements:
* Windows XP SP3 (32-bit)
* Windows Vista (32-bit)
* Windows 7 (32-bit)

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Explorer++ 1.3.4

Explorer++ is a free multi-tab file manager for Windows. Available on Windows XP and above, it features the same familiar interface as Windows Explorer, while introducing several enhancements and improvements for a much richer file browsing experience.

Feature list:
* Browse both real and virtual folders.
* Tabbed browsing for easy management of multiple folders.
* Display window shows previews of images as they are selected.
* Easy-to-remember keyboard shortcuts for quick navigation.
* Customizable user interface.
* Full drag-and-drop support with other applications, including Windows Explorer.
* Advanced file operations such as merging and splitting supported.

What´s New in version 1.3.4:

New features:

* Implemented the media protection column.

Bug fixes:
* If the search dialog was closed while searching, the application would crash. Fixed.
* When clicking the ‘Close’ button while searching (in the search dialog), the dialog would not close until the search was finished. It could also result in a crash. Fixed.
* Fixed multithreaded bug in the search dialog.
* In certain areas (such as the search dialog), Unicode characters were not been converted to lowercase correctly. Fixed.

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