linux directory search

find -type d -iname "*$mydir*"

Android Camera Picture Errors

Its important to createnewfile(), because it creates the file. also it is important that during testing, the sdcard is unmount, there will be an exception about the parent directory being unreachable.

This can be potentially useful:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1431042/problem-in-creating-temporary-file-in-android

File photo = new File(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory(),"modcloth/placeholder.jpg");

try {

photo.createNewFile();
FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(photo.getPath());

BitmapFactory.Options options=new BitmapFactory.Options();
options.inSampleSize = 5; // sets image quality

Bitmap myImage = BitmapFactory.decodeByteArray(imageData, 0, imageData.length,options);

BufferedOutputStream bos = new BufferedOutputStream(fileOutputStream);

myImage.compress(CompressFormat.JPEG, quality, bos);

bos.flush();
bos.close();

} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

Placing Div above flash

place: "wmode", "transparent"

inside the following areas:
AC_FL_RunContent
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />