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Splitting a vCard into Multiple Files
Recently I wanted to sync my contact list from Google Mail to my old Samsung Gleam SCH-U700 via Bluetooth. From Google Mail I exported a single vCard file containing 170 individual contacts. I tried to send the that single file to my phone, but the end result was that the...
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Debug Your GUI: Redirecting and Distributing System.out
Recently I was reading Swing Hacks by by Joshua Marinacci and Chris Adamson (ISBN: 978-0-596-00907-6). I came across Hack 95: Debug Your GUI which basically recommends building a dialog window containing a JTextArea that has the standard output streams routed to it. I thought this hack could be useful for debugging deployed applications since it makes it very...