Ok, another hack, this time related to not being able to debug in Flex builder. Flex builder is great,  dont get me wrong, I mean its light years ahead and a few decades before modern development/debugging tools, which ironically include Eclipse, but even so, it has its share of problems. This one is related more to the flash player (debug version of it) and the communication between them.

First, if you want to debug from within Flex, you need to have the debug version of the flash player installed (http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html). Make sure you download the version of the player that suits your default  internet browser(this if you dont play with the debugging settings in flex-you could just donwload the standalone debug player and set the debuger in project properties to start the swf instead of the html).

The problem…

If you have it properly installed, but when you try to debug, flex just wont break on your specified breakpoints, or you cant get the trace messages in the  Console (Window/Console)  you might want to check the Progress tab, you might have  at least a working item there. If you decide to wait until the progress reachs 100% you might get a message box with the following error:

Launch failed

Failed to connect; session timed out.

Ensure that:

1. You compiled your Flash application with debugging on.

2. You are running the debugger version of Flash Player.

WTF??? …you think, I have the debug player installed, I ran the project in debug, so the debug symbols must be in.. what next ?

The cause…

Now lets assume that you are like me and work on a lot of other things and have a lot of other applications installed on your development machine. If you are using windows (I’m almost sure this doesnt happen on MacOS),  you might have some virtual network adapters or for example, vmware installed.  If this is the case, you might do a simple check, open a windows console, at the command prompt try to ping localhost (by default the debugger connects to the debugged application using the localhost-loopback interface). If you get a reply from anything else but 127.0.0.1 you are in luck since the solution below will probably fix your problems. This being said, it is clear by now that the debugger and debugee are trying to communicate over sockets opened on different interfaces.

The solution(s)..

Depending on how much you want to tinker on this, you have 2 options, fix the localhost to point to the loopback interface (since some application changed this, if you correct this, it might break that application) or the easy way, just point the flash player to the correct interface/debugger. This is pretty simple, atempt to debug the application again (this will start the browser), right click on the flash object, from the context menu choose Debugger and there, select Other machine and the the text field, the ip of your loopback- “127.0.0.1″.

To “properly” fix this, you might want to open \windows\system32\drivers\hosts file in your favourite editor and make sure that there is only one entry for localhost, or if there are more, make sure that the last one looks like this:

127.0.0.1       localhost

Again, this might break the application that changed it in the first place…

done..

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There is one word used over and over again in India to describe JustDial: Addictive.

Said one entrepreneur I spoke with, “My mom lives in a village. I didn’t even know she’d heard of JustDial and recently she was telling me she’s addicted to it. She says before she can even think of what it is she wants to know, they’ve already picked up the phone and answered the question for her.”

The idea is simple: You call up and within the first ring a real person picks up the phone, you ask them for any business listing – in any category – and within 45 seconds they email or text you the information or, if you prefer, connect the call. The company will end its fiscal year at the end of March with some $32 million in revenues having answered 72 million calls in the last year. That call volume is increasing by 40%, so the company expects to break 100 million calls in the next year. In a country where nearly everyone has a mobile phone but just 50 million people have Internet access, JustDial is essentially Google and 411 rolled together.

But what will it be in the U.S.? We’ll find out today. After several months of tweaking the service and building out the database, JustDial is officially launching its free 411-like service here on the number 1-800-JUSTDIAL with a huge Facebook ad campaign starting momentarily. Sound way too low-tech for high-tech, always-on, smart-phone connected America? Well Sequoia Capital doesn’t think so. Having already funded the company in India, Sequoia has taken an additional 15% stake in the US operation. Founder and CEO V.S.S. Mani (pictured above, in one of his call centers) was in Silicon Valley last December where Sequoia kingpin Mike Moritz himself blessed the deal after some initial reservations, Mani told me over dinner at a posh, beach-side restaurant in Mumbai last week. The Sand Hill Road pow-wow was quite a moment for him.

The move is a direct volley at a service like GOOG-411, which has opted to do the same thing, but using voice recognition software. But Mani is betting that nothing beats a human voice with a quick answer.

He started this company for the first time back in 1989, having just dropped out of school to become a CPA. It was way too ahead of its time, especially considering you had to apply for a phone line (and wait years to get it) in India and cell phones were non-existent. The company eventually folded. He started it again in 1996, having waited a year for an Indian landline, and hoping and praying he could land his first choice of number: 888-8888. “I didn’t sleep for two days,” Mani says. “I knew if I got the number my future would be assured. I was waking up in the middle of the night to make sure the line was working.” He got it, but because of the growth of phone lines in India since, there are now a few extra 8s on the end.

The company makes money from small businesses paying up to be sponsored listings, when someone, say, calls for a plumber much like Google. JustDial has more than 100,000 of them and, similar to Google, they only pay when they get a lead from the service. The company has raised $46 million to date from Sequoia, Tiger Venture and SAIF, but Mani says it’s all still in the bank. He’s grown the company to this size out of revenues and his initial $1,000 investment.

For now, JustDial’s US operations will be handled out of India, where the company employs some 4,000 people but, in a twist to the direction most call center jobs are flowing, Mani plans to hire up big in the US—up to 1,000 people mostly in under-employed, rural areas. “We need a big presence in the US very soon,” Mani says. That right– an Indian company will be creating call center jobs in the US.

This is more than just business expansion for Mani—this is validation. He’s long thought the ultimate proof-point of JustDial’s obsessively quick user experience would be success in the ultra-wired US market. Unlike in India, the US already has multiple ways to find business listings. JustDial is no longer in the business of low-hanging fruit—with today’s move JustDial has to be more than the only option to win, it has to be the best.

Erply, a business software firm, has raised $2 million in funding from Redpoint and Index Ventures, along with Marten Mickos, Zack Urlocker (both formerly of MySQL), Kenny van Zant (SolarWinds), Aydin Senkut, David McClure and the Accelerator Group.

The company, founded by Kristian Hiiemaa in Estonia, is a 2009 Seedcamp winner and is already profitable. Its client base is growing roughly 20% each month, according to Hiiemaa. They currently have 2,000 business customers and 8,000 users.

Seedcamp is a UK based incubator program cofounded by Saul Klein. This is the first Seedcamp winner to get funded by Index Ventures, where Klein is a partner.

“We think Erply can do for business software what Skype did for telecom,” Klein told us.  Skype, like Erply, was developed in Estonia before being sold to eBay in 2005 with a $2.75 billion valuation. Klein is hoping that Erply follows a similarly disruptive path, by making traditionally expensive business applications more affordable for smaller companies.

Erply specializes in business management software, helping companies deal with inventory control, bookkeeping, and other tasks, from their brick-and-mortar stores to online operations. While rivals like SAP, Microsoft and Oracle dominate the larger accounts, Erply focuses on small businesses— courting them with cheaper fees. Typically, a small business will fulfill their software needs with the larger providers or local developers, but Hiiemaa says more are defecting to Erply as the company finds success in its marketing efforts. The lionshare of the $2 million will be funneled towards marketing and expanding the company’s team in Eastern Europe.  So far, the company counts 8,000 seats and 2,000 companies.

Although Erply offers a mix of free and paid packages, many customers are opting for the paid packages (the average subscription fee is $74 a month) — the company boasts a 25% conversion rate from free to paid. Small start-ups are taking advantage of the free versions, but Hiiemaa says most companies are entering on the pay side.

Sidenote: the company is also betting on the iPad— Erply is preparing to launch a new application for the device in the near term that will help with real time inventory management.

Last year, we reported on an experimental new YouTube project called RealTime.  The feature let you interact with your friends on YouTube, sharing videos and seeing what else they were watching using a slick toolbar that was integrated at the bottom of the screen. Alas, it looks like YouTube wasn’t satisfied with its performance: less than a year later, YouTube has removed the RealTime feature entirely. The following message was posted this morning to YouTube’s bug report forum:

We’ve seen some of you wondering what occurred to the Realtime Toolbar. The Realtime Toolbar was recently retired and is no longer an available feature on YouTube.

We were excited to release and experiment with Realtime and it has inspired us for new features on YouTube in the future. We look forward to introducing many new features in the coming months and are sharing them with you all. Many thanks to those of you who used Realtime and for your feedback to us on this feature- your suggestions and input help the Team shape the site and determine what should be developed to further improve the YouTube community.

~ Liz (on behalf of the YouTube Team).

RealTime looked and behaved a bit like Facebook’s notification system and the Meebo Bar. You could click on a menu item in the bottom right hand side of your screen to see what your friends were currently watching. If a friend invited you to watch a video, a small notification window would pop up immediately. This could have been a boon to discovery, as it made it very easy for friends to swap the cool videos they found on the site.  But YouTube never rolled it out widely — you could only access it if you had an invitation.

So why did YouTube get rid of the feature?  As it turns out, RealTime didn’t increase engagement and discovery as much as the other features that the site has been rolling out, like auto-sharing videos to Facebook and Twitter, and the improved YouTube friend finder.

Thanks to Michel Wester for the tip

If you’ve ever tried using the web to book a vacation, there’s a good chance you found yourself juggling a half-dozen tabs at once: a couple for hotel review sites, a booking engine or two, and, finally, a Google Map to figure out where exactly all these places are actually located. Today, Google has announced that it’s experimenting with making this a bit easier, by including hotel prices alongside their Google Maps listings.

According to the post, the feature is only available to a small number of users, so don’t be surprised if you don’t see it.  It’s also only being tested with a small number of advertisers, so there’s probably a limited selection of hotels that have prices listed.  Prices simply appear next to each listing on the map — clicking the price reveals which travel site is offering it (the example lists prices from Priceline and Expedia).  Google notes that this doesn’t actually change the order of the hotels presented, it just augments the information shown about them.

Assuming this test goes well, it’s not hard to envision more travel-related improvements that could be made for Maps, which could easily become a lead-gen goldmine.  Yes, there are plenty of other travel sites that do this, but most of us use Google Maps out of habit, so it’s nice to have.

This isn’t the first time Google has made moves affecting the travel space. Last summer, it launched a City Tours feature, which helps you automatically generate an itinerary of things to see on your trip.

Look, I know Farmville is popular. Okay, really popular. Okay, insanely popular. And while it does have plenty of mainstream appeal, I still find it hard to believe that it has controlled two of the top “Hot Searches” items (for the U.S.) all day long on Google. And yet, according to Google Trends, both “farmville.com the game,” and “www.farmville.com the game” are the number two and three hottest search items today, respectively. So what’s going on?

Well, if you click through to the detail page for either of the two queries, the answer appears to reside there. First of all, there are a bunch of borderline spam sites suggesting the game launched today on the website Farmville.com. That’s not true, it has actually been there for several months, using Facebook Connect. But still, that doesn’t appear to be what’s causing the “On Fire” surge. That may be something much more interesting.

It looks like queries are on fire because Google is tying in searches for “republicans” and “what is in the health care bill” to these Farmville searches, for some unknown reason. Both of those queries appear in the “Related searches” area for both of those Farmville queries. Seeing as just about all anyone in the United States is talking about is the House’s passing of the new health care bill, and the strong Republican opposition to it, it’s no wonder these queries are exploding.

Meanwhile, according to Google Trends, “health reform bill summary” is only the 14th most popular search, just behind “chris johnson s car.“

At this point, we’re going to assume this is simply a Google mix-up and not some type of 4chan-style gaming of Google. But if anyone has more info, feel free to leave it in the comments or send it in: tips [at] techcrunch.com.

Watching live video on your iPhone is nothing new, but it is becoming increasingly easier to do. More than a year after Ustream launched its live video viewing iPhone app, and followed up with a video publishing app, along with Qik and Kyte, Justin.tv is entering the mobile game with its first iPhone app (which should be available shortly in the iTunes store).

Justin.tv CEO Michael Seibel says they took their time with the app because they wanted to get it right. “We tried not to cut corners,” he says. All the live videos and channels available on the Website can be watched in the iPhone app. You can find videos by looking at the featured channels or by searching. Videos play horizontally in landscape mode, and text chat is built into the app. The chat text is laid across the bottom of the video and can be tapped on to make it disappear. And the audio works both with or without headphones, which apparently isn’t the case with all other iPhone video apps.

Video channels can be saved as favorites, and an upcoming update to the app will add push notifications to tell you whenever one of your favorite channels is on live. Videos can be shared via email.

Where the app falls short is that it is only for watching live videos, not streaming them from your iPhone’s video camera. The issue is that the iPhone API still doesn’t allow apps to access the camera directly. Instead, other “live streaming” video apps have to come up with workarounds, which often involve sending out a succession of camera screen captures at one to two frames per second. Seibel hopes the next iPhone OS 4.0 will allow for direct camera access which would make video uploads from the iPhone much more efficient.

If the iPhone OS 4.0 API makes live video streaming more practical, Justin.tv will include it as a feature in its app, along with the regular Twitter and Facebook broadcasting options. Check out the app and tell us in comments how it compares the other video livestreaming iPhone apps. Was it worth the wait, or is Justin.tv late to the game?

This morning, the Internet was abuzz with the news that Apple would begin selling unlocked iPhones. The only problem? It’s not true. In fact, it’s no different from what Apple did last year at this time: sell contract-free iPhones at unsubsidized prices.

But that doesn’t mean this move is entirely uninteresting. You may be wondering why Apple is doing this? And why now? Well, it seems fairly obvious that’s it’s an attempt to move inventory before a new piece of iPhone hardware launches in the June or July timeframe. Remember, that’s just a few short months away already.

When Apple first ships its iPhone hardware, it requires that you also purchase an AT&T contract with the device. This is both practical (supplies are tighter), but also because AT&T pays Apple a ton of money for each subsidized iPhone sold. But as time goes on and new hardware nears, Apple is more concerned with moving existing inventory to make way for the new device.

A $500, $600, or $700 (depending on the model and size) phone isn’t going to sell a ton of units — especially since it’s not unlocked — but there will be those who pay the premium to ship it overseas or are comfortable doing the relatively painless process of unlocking the phone themselves (which voids the warranty). Unfortunately, in the U.S., even if it is unlocked, the phone will only be able to work on T-Mobile as well as AT&T, since those are the two (major) GSM carriers. A different chip (CDMA) would have to be in the iPhone for it to work on the nation’s biggest network, Verizon (or Sprint, for that matter).

Because of the price and restrictions, this move will probably have minimal impact on actual sales. So don’t be surprised if when the fourth generation iPhone is announced, if we also hear about a price cut for the current iPhone 3GS down to $99 (just as Apple did last year with the iPhone 3G).

So, it was a nice pipe-dream for a few hours this morning that Apple was going to be changing its policy and selling the iPhone unlocked (as Google offers as an option for its Nexus One). After all, many would take it as a sign that they’ve grown weary of AT&T and could soon partner with another carrier in the U.S. But really, this is just the first of undoubtedly many signs that a new iPhone is coming.