Yahoo recently shut their Geo Placefinder API, leaving many who used it for WOEID searching based on latitude & longitude coordinates, scrambling for a solution. [Read more…]
YouTube recently dropped its support for RSS/Atom feeds and recently I was asked if there is a workaround. Or in other words, if it’s still possible to use Java to search YouTube by any keyword and retrieve a result of the most relevant video(s). After a bit of tinkering, following is the code that allows searching of YouTube by keyword (or entire sentence) in the currently supported YouTube Data API v3. [Read more…]
If you come across an error in Android 6.0 Marshmallow that says: “To keep going, the Google needs permission to access some things on your device”, this is how you resolve it: [Read more…]