How to install Android sdk 1.6 in ubuntu 9.04

Google released android 1.6 sdk. Most of the ubuntu users need to install android for start development for the next generation Mobile devices.



Android SDK is built around Java . So, you have to install Sun Java before trying to install Android. Look at this post for details about installation of sun java development kit on ubuntu 9.04.

Here you can see a very good tutorial for installing android 1.6 sdk

View Some Magic with Ubuntu Easter Eggs

Easter eggs are messages, videos, graphics, sound effects, or an unusual change in program behavior that sometimes occur in a software program in response to some undocumented set of commands, mouse clicks, keystrokes. Here You can see some simple easter eggs in Ubuntu.

OpenOffice Easter Egg

Select OpenOffice Spreadsheet
Applications-->Office-->OpenOffice.org Spreadsheet

Type the following in an empty field

=GAME("StarWars")

Gnome Easter Egg

Type the following in Login Screen when it ask for username

Require Quarter Then press enter

nothing will happened

now you can enter your username and password as usual

now you can see a surprise before login

don't worry press OK to continue

Howto Extract camera settings and Picture information from a image file using ExifTool in Ubuntu Linux

ExifTool is a Perl module with an included command-line application
for reading and writing meta information in image, audio and video
files. Modern Digital Camera including Canon, Minolta,Konica, Nikon, Pentax store all the settings you used, such as aperture or shutter speed along with the picture. For extracting the camera settings and Picture information , you can use ExifTool. ExifTool is requred for profesional editing of some Picture Files.

Howto Install in ExifTool ubuntu
Open a terminal and type the following

$ sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl

Check a image file for its settings

$ exiftool UNS_1850.JPG
ExifTool Version Number : 7.30
File Name : UNS_1850.JPG
Directory : .
File Size : 4 MB
File Modification Date/Time : 2009:08:21 11:25:32
File Type : JPEG
MIME Type : image/jpeg
Exif Byte Order : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)
Make : NIKON CORPORATION
Camera Model Name : NIKON D200
Orientation : Horizontal (normal)
X Resolution : 300
Y Resolution : 300
Resolution Unit : inches
Software : Ver.2.00
Modify Date : 2009:08:21 10:55:30
Y Cb Cr Positioning : Co-sited
Exposure Time : 1/200
F Number : 10.0
Exposure Program : Manual
ISO : 200
Exif Version : 0221
Date/Time Original : 2009:08:21 10:55:30
Create Date : 2009:08:21 10:55:30
and more................