Failed to apply patch Android Studio solution

If you are seeing the error “failed to apply patch” at the end of every attempt to update Android Studio you might be glad to know that there is a quick solution to this problem. Before I proceed with the solution, I will give a short background of why this […]

How to edit your Instagram posts

Have you ever written an Instagram post and then wanted to edit it soon afterwards? Maybe you forgot to add some hashtags and the best you could do was to repost the original post with the missing hashtags. Or perhaps you have an embarassing typo in the Instagram post? It’s […]

Getting duplicate notifications from GMail and Inbox? Here’s a quick solution.

So, yesterday I finally received an invitation for Google Inbox by GMail after a long wait. It was quite by chance that I saw an article, while going through some blog posts on Google Newsstand, that mentioned a tweet from Inbox by Gmail:   Want an invite TODAY? #InboxHappyHour 3-4pm […]

Are you unwittingly using Viber location sharing?

While using Viber for Android, I noticed that some of my contacts had the location ballon next to each message that they sent. When I asked one contact something about where he was, he was really puzzled at how I was able to tell where he was without him telling […]

Solving Gradle update problem in Android Studio 0.4.2

Solving the Gradle update problem in Android Studio 0.4.2 will be shown in this short tutorial. A few days ago I was migrating my Android apps from the Eclipse ADT plugin to the new Android Studio when I encountered a frustrating problem with the Gradle plugin. After exporting my projects […]