Hold the “Option” key on your Mac and click on the “Speaker” icon on top on the windows.

If the “Speaker” icon is not available on top of the windows, you can find it at “System Preferences”

I think I don’t have to mention how to stream it via iOS device like iPhone and iPad. Once Rocki is setup you will be able to see the stream options for selection.

Before flashing your Android phone with custom ROM, you need custom Recovery ROM such as

• ClockworkMod Recovery (CWM)
• Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP)

The default “Recovery ROM’ comes with your phone does not allow to flash/install custom ROM. Hence, before flashing your phone with custom ROM, custom “Recovery” is needed. Before flashing custom “recovery ROM”, you need tools to do that.

adb & fastboot are the tools which will use to flash Android’s “recovery” ROM. Let’s see how to install ADB & FASTBOOT in Mac OSX.

1. Download Android SDK

Android SDK can be downloaded at Android Developer website. Click the link here to visit the website. Choose “Download the SDK. ADT bundle for Mac”

2. Install and Configure

After ADT bundle has been downloaded, extract the file into download folder.

I have Android SDK store in my “Work” directory and renamed it from adt-bundle-mac-x86_64-20131030 to AndroidDevel “~/Document/Work/AndroidDevel”

adb and fastboot command tool can be found at “sdk/platform-tools” folder. You will need to run this 2 command tools in order to flash your phone.

3. Configure with Terminal

Open up your “Terminal” and open .profile shell profile.

# vi .profile 

Look for the “export PATH” and expand further by adding in platform-tools folder

export PATH=/usr/local/bin:~/Document/Work/AndroidDevel/sdk/platform-tools 

Depend on where do you store the tools. It may not me same with my configuration. Please do not miss the “:” semicolon, it means to expand and include other folder. Save your file and refresh your bash environment with command below

# source ~/.profile 

4. Complete and Look For Your Device

Plugin your device with USB cable and prompt for your device with command below

# adb devices 

You should be able to see the list of device as below

Congrats, adb & fastboot are installed on your Mac OSX Next post I will show how to flash recovery ROM on a HTC ONE M7 device.

# php composer.phar install
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev) from lock file
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - symfony/icu v1.2.0 requires lib-icu >=4.4 -> the requested linked library icu has the wrong version installed or is missing from your system, make sure to have the extension providing it.
    - symfony/icu v1.2.0 requires lib-icu >=4.4 -> the requested linked library icu has the wrong version installed or is missing from your system, make sure to have the extension providing it.
    - Installation request for symfony/icu v1.2.0 -> satisfiable by symfony/icu[v1.2.0].

There is some configuration on “composer.json” need to be changed on “required” tree.

"symfony/icu": "1.0.0",
"symfony/symfony": "2.3.5",
 

After that run the command again “php composer.phar install”. The details of the ticket error can be found on Symfony’s github site (scroll to the last line)

Gmail on iOS was completely redesigned in June, but Mountain View’s just pushed out a fresh update with a few features to polish things off. Version 2.4 of the email app bakes in improved integration with Drive and Google+, making links to the platforms open in their respective apps.

[Story via Engadget]

Parallels Access turns your iPad into a porthole to your more powerful (and heavier) Windows or Mac computers somewhere else. Connecting the your iPad to your remote machine through the cloud is the (relatively) easy part. The real magic is how Parallels Access elegantly shrinks your desktop applications into manageable tablet apps.

Parallels Access is a subscription service that links your computer to your iPad. As long as both ends are connected to the Internet, you should be able to connect.

[Story via Gizmodo]

Because sometimes it’s just fun to scream at each other for no reason, let’s figure this thing out.

There are plenty of GIFs of Apple’s iOS Mail refresh animation. It’s squiggly, like an earthworm you’re stretching out and snapping back onto itself, like a jerk.

Source from Gizmodo

Twitter for Android Supports Multiple Account, this has made my life easier, and also made it as the best Twitter Apps for Android.

Twitter for Android Supports Multiple Account, a Big Thanks

I believe people who do a lot of social network stuff has more than 1 twitter account. I have at least 2 Twitter Apps running on my Android one, one is Twitter Apps another is Twidroyd Apps to support my multiple twitter profile accounts.

Now I can just run one Twitter Apps in Android phone, which I believe will contribute to better battery life

Twitter for Android Supports Multiple Account, Benefits

New Twitter for Android also supports push notification for tweets, mentions and direct message, which can help to save more on your battery life on Android. Try the new Twitter for Android and share your battery life experience with us.

I usually refer to the timezone conversion table at Eastern Time to GMT

For example let say the online seminar is happening at EDT 21:00, it will be 01:00, +8 which is 09:00 (the next day) in my country.

Here is the instruction of how to access to list of Preapproved Payment in your Paypal.

• After login to Paypal, on top of the menu, click on “Profile”.
• On the left menu, click on “My money”
• You will see the option “My preapproved payments”

It actually took me quite sometime to figure how to access preapproved payments list

check_dns usage is as below

$ ./check_dns -H host [-s server] [-a expected-address] [-A] [-t timeout] [-w warn] [-c crit]

Try to run the command as below and you will get the query result

$ ./check_dns -H systems.takizo.com -s 8.8.8.8        
DNS OK: 0.012 seconds response time. systems.takizo.com returns 70.32.103.130|time=0.011703s;;;0.000000

Sweet, that is the DNS query plugin, it does DNS query check on your DNS host server and return the query time.
Here is how to activate the monitoring, add the check_dns plug-in into Nagios’ commands.cfg configuration file.

On FreeBSD server, it’s located at /usr/local/etc/nagios/objects/commands.cfg
Edit the file commands.cfg and add the line below

define command {
        command_name    check_dns
        command_line    $USER1$/check_dns -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -s $ARG1$
}

• $ARG1$ is the argument you will parse into in the configuration
• $HOSTADDRESS$ is your host on Nagios monitoring.

Next, put the line below into service check configuration file

define service {
        use                                  generic-service
        host_name                       your-dns-host
        service_description          Check Google.com on DNS Server
        check_command              check_dns!www.google.com
}

Restart your Nagios service now

$ /usr/local/etc/rc.d/nagios restart

If it’s failed, you will the red color on the monitoring status. There are a lot other plug-ins can be explore too. Have fun.