Today’s Incident of Facebook not opening in India made one thing clear: You cannot rely on default DNS of your ISP. Following ISPs were observed to block Facebook:

MTNL
BSNL
Tikona
Reliance
Airtel

Earlier, Indian Govt had requested Facebook and Google to screen the content. This time, No Public statement was released, but it was observed nationwide, but yes things were back to normal in a couple of hours!…

Today, I was trying to submit a URL to Google. As usual i simply opened Google and searched for “add url to google” , Google returned me the following results.

The Top Result https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url/ actually gives a 404 error (Jan 22, 2012 – 3.16 AM IST)

Surprisingly when you remove the / (forward slash) from the end of URL, it starts working https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url
The URL has been fixed on Google “Submit Your Content” Page, but search results are still returning old URL.…

Prerequisites :
1. Working Eclipse IDE with ADT installed (Tutorial)
2. Basics of Java

Part 1: Understanding Views
Start a new Android Project. File >> New >> Android Project.
Major Components of the new Android Project screen are
Project Name : Just the name displayed in Eclipse
Build Target : Supported Version, We chose to build for Android 2.2
Application Name : Name Displayed in the Application Header
Package Name : Follow the international reverse hierarchy nomenclature as in java packages (can be anything)
Create Activity… :  Keeping activity checked will create a java file in the “src” folder which will have a function that will be called as soon as the application starts.

Test Browsers: Firefox 3.6.12, Google Chrome 8.0.552.215, Internet Explorer 9.0 beta, Safari 5.0.2
Result: Firefox, Chrome ,Safari : Pass IE9 : Fail

Download the Geo Location Code . Give it a try : Live Demo…

This post is result of my experiments with Google APIs .