Android HttpURLConnection improvements

This is awesome news , the Android team is finally fixing and improving the HttpURLConnection.


"Apache HTTP client has fewer bugs on Eclair and Froyo. It is the best choice for these releases.
For Gingerbread and better, HttpURLConnection is the best choice. Its simple API and small size makes it great fit for Android. Transparent compression and response caching reduce network use, improve speed and save battery. New applications should use HttpURLConnection; it is where we will be spending our energy going forward."
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2011/09/androids-http-clients.html?m=1

MacBook, the battery status check

Pick up this useful bit today. If you need to check the battery status on the MacBook you can use the command:
ioreg -w0 -l | grep -i capacity

On my MacBook I got:

    | |           "MaxCapacity" = 5936

    | |           "CurrentCapacity" = 1106

    | |           "LegacyBatteryInfo" = {"Amperage"=18446744073709549771,"Flags"=4,"Capacity"=5936,"Current"=1106,"Voltage"=10837,"Cycle Count"=356}

    | |           "DesignCapacity" = 6900

The 6900 is the designed capacity of the battery and 5936 is the max I can get at this point. This kind of gives some info how much the battery degraded over time.

Chrome on Mac OS X with Android User Agent

open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app --args -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; de-de; HTC Desire 1.19.161.5 Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17"

Michael Arrington interview with Arianna Huffington

I found this interview quite entertaining.