Install AppLocale in Windows 7

Install AppLocale in Windows 7

1. Download AppLocale from MS site
2. Copy apploc.msi to drive C:
3. Run command as administrator
4. As the command prompt show C:\Windows\System32, navigate to the C: root.
5. Type apploc.msi to run installer.


Reference: http://blog.wentoday.com/?p=136

Issue - 'SD Card cannot mount' - on Motorola Milestone

Sometimes (I've been encountered this problem twice), the issue of 'SD card is not mounted' occurs even if the SD card is mounted.

The solution is as below:

1. Use a card reader to operate formatting on your computer.
     using FAT32, assigned the cluster as 4096 byte (4 KB)

2. Inactive the SD card under the command environment.
Win->RUN->cmd->diskpart

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online          931 GB      0 B
  Disk 1    Online          465 GB  1024 KB
  Disk 2    Online          136 GB  4096 KB
  Disk 3    Online         7604 MB      0 B

DISKPART> select disk 3

Disk 3 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list volume

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0     S                       DVD-ROM         0 B  No Media
  Volume 1     D   1TB-SYS      NTFS   Partition     39 GB  Healthy
  .................................................................
  Volume 17    V                FAT32  Removable   7603 MB  Healthy

DISKPART> select volume 17

Volume 17 is the selected volume.

DISKPART> inactive

DiskPart marked the current partition as inactive.

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

3. Insert the card back to the cellphone and make sure whether it can be recognized correctly.

4. Restore the data.

Font replacement on Android

Hardware: Motorola Milestone
Platform: Android 2.1 Build no SHOLS_U2_02.36.0

Software: Root Explorer

Preparation: Get your android rooted

Files:Three files should be exchanged which are on the directory of /system/fonts/
  DroidSans.ttf              Default system's English font
  DroidSans-Bold.ttf      Default system's English bold font
  DroidSansFallback.ttf  Default system's font for other language (for Asian language in my case)

Use any .ttf font as you like to replace them. Change the name according to their usage. Rename them or replacement would be OK.

Before restart the OS, remember:
★ Change the permission of these three files to rw-r--r-- (User: Read/Write; Group: Read; Others: Read)


Then restart your android.

*BE CAREFUL! USE AS YOUR OWN RISK

Dictionaries

A bookmark-style post gathering dictionaries

English

Merriam-Webster Online

Dictionary.com

the Free Dictionary

Japanese

三省堂

四字熟語 

語源由来辞典

日本方言学習

Learning Languages

Japanese Grammar in English

英単語語根 

Other

英和電気専門用語辞書

花言葉

Wifi setting for WPA2-Ent (on Android)

Wifi setting for WPA2-Enterprise with AES

Hardware: Motorola Milestone
Platform: Android 2.1 Build no SHOLS_U2_02.36.0

Preparing: Rooted and file explorer(Root Explorer in my case)

Edit the config file
/data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf

network={
ssid="SSID Name"
key_mgmt=WPA-EAP IEEE8021X
eap=TTLS
identity="USERNAME"
password="PASSWORD"
phase2="auth=PAP"
pairwise=CCMP %this is AES
}

* The details and explanations can be found here.

Dictionary on Android

Software: ColorDict on Android
              Download it on the Android market and ↓

Stardict's dictionary file is also supported, so just download them and place at /sdcard/dictdata
Address: http://reciteword.cosoft.org.cn/stardict-iso/stardict-dic/

Extract the compressed file "*. tar.bz2" and you will get three file list as:
1.  *.ifo    basic info of this dictionary
2.  *.idx    index file
3.  *.dz     compressed file of explanations, extract it to get *.dict (the original dz file can be delete)
★ The name of some *.dict file does not match with *.ifo and *.idx, just rename it.