The Age of ‘WebApps’

Looks like there is a big paradigm shift from ‘native’ apps to so-called ‘WebApps’ nowadays!

Listing the WebApps which I personally use in daily life and like the most.

Do you come across any? Let me know!

	Store, Sync, Share files online.
	Password Manager.
	To-Do list manager.
	Remember everything on any device.
	Instant messaging program which supports multiple IM services.
	Creates social media players for cellphones and handheld devices with huge library of lyrics.
	Save Pages to Read Later. Offline reading!
	Web videos!
	Great feeds reader from Google.
	Twitter!
	Wiki.
	Bookmark manager.
	Geo-tagging.
	Create floor plans, house plans and home plans ‘online’.
	facebook!

no service found for - "com.nokia.qt.mediaplayer"

Of late, I was trying to build QtMobility on Ubuntu, specifically experimenting with QtMultimedia feature set.

In the process, I stumbled on this (not so) strange issue which frustrated me for a log time. I was using Qt4.7 + QtMobility v1.1.0 Beta.

Building QtMobility was not an issue. However, when I tried to play a multimedia content in demo/player app , it just couldn't play it complaining :

no service found for - "com.nokia.qt.mediaplayer"

It was clearly a mistake of mine not having a look at the 'configure' warning messages :

Reading /home/pranaray/qt-mobility-opensource-src-1.1.0-beta2/plugins/multimedia/multimedia.pro
Project MESSAGE: QtMultiMedia checking for gstreamer...
Package gstreamer-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-0.10.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gstreamer-0.10' found
Package gstreamer-base-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-base-0.10.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gstreamer-base-0.10' found
Package gstreamer-interfaces-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-interfaces-0.10.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gstreamer-interfaces-0.10' found
Package gstreamer-audio-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-audio-0.10.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gstreamer-audio-0.10' found
Package gstreamer-video-0.10 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gstreamer-video-0.10.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'gstreamer-video-0.10' found

The message was clearly warning about the missing gstreamer library packages.
I had to install libgstreamer0.10-dev & libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev packages to resolve the issue.

sudo apt-get install libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev

I also installed few additional gstreamer plugins along with the above said packages to be able to play mp3 and other media content formats.