How to run Opera Mini on Ubuntu

This is a “copy and past post” from Source

I love Opera Mini browser, it is the best way to browse internet on your cellphone. I had found a tutorial which showed how to use Opera Mini on Windows. I tried to run Opera Mini on Ubuntu. It has been a lifesaver. Thanks to the heavy compression done by Opera Mini servers pages load within one second. This makes Opera Mini very useful for those on slow internet connection.When my internet speed dips, say when I am downloading softwares etc I use Opera Mini. I love Opera Mini on Ubuntu.

So here is how you can run Opera Mini on your Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro):

Downloading and installing the software you need:

1. go to http://microemu.org/
2. download the latest release (you can pick the snapshot as well, doesn’t really matter)
3. unzip the archive on your PC
4. Download the Opera Mini .jar and .jad files from operamini.com
5. Install Java. Go to Applications > Add/ Remove and now type java in the search box. You will find two packages OpenJDK Java Runtime and OpenJDK Java 6 Webstart. Click on them and install them by clicking on Apply Changes. It will take some time as these packages are about 30 MB in size.

Starting and configuring the software:

1. Navigate to the folder where you have extracted the microemulator file. Now locate the file ‘microemulator.jar’, right click it and select ‘Open With’ tab now click on the Add button, a new window will pop out clcik on ‘Use a Custom Command’ now paste this thing in it: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -jar . Double-click “microemulator.jar” to run it.
2. go to “Options > Select device”, click “Add…”, navigate to “microemulator\devices” and select “microemu-device-resizable.jar”
3. select the “Resizable device” profile you just added and click “Set as default”
4. click the “Resize” button in lower right to set the size you want
5. go to “File > Open JAD” and choose the Opera Mini jad you previously downloaded
6. “Opera Mini” now appears in the list of apps you can start, click the “Start” button to launch it

Create a Shortcut in Applications Menu

1. Go to System > Preferences > Main Menu
Navigate to Internet submenu and clcik on ‘New Item’. Here fill in the proper details like this:
Type: Application
Name: Opera Mini
Command: This is very important!!!
First copy this in the box:
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -jar
Now navigate to the folder where you have extracted the microemulator.jar and right click on it. Select Properties. In the Basic tab you will find location, copy it and then paste it after the above given command in the box like this:

/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -jar /media/sda3/Software/Opera/microemulator-2.0.2

there should be one space between the two commands.
Here is a screenshot:

How to add Google meta verification to Joomla

I tried to verify by uploading a html file for Google Webmaster Tool, but there was no luck! So I used the meta tag method and Google meta verification and I was successfully.

It is very simple. You just log in to Administrator zone and Edit html for your current theme. That’s it.

Note:
Add above in your template name/index.php

Like this

Download free Stopwatch Java Application

Sometimes we need a “Stopwatch” or time count down tool. As you may know “Stopwatch” is a quite common included application in many cellphones.

And one beautiful Sunday, you find out that it is not available in your phone (like my E680i) Sad for 5 minutes. ^^

Ok. Here are some free Stopwatch Java applications I found on the Internet:

http://www.getjar.com/products/6397/Stopwatch

Download: stopwatch11midp1.jar (20.34 KB)

http://www.mediafire.com/?mzne0xi1jyy

Enjoy!

Hope it help!

How to fix – Can not import saved passw from Firefox to Google Chrome

You may just need to read my BOLD sentences in this post.

I have been using Firefox for years. Today, I tried to install Google Chrome for fun ^^. But after testing for a while, I think I should keep it installed in my Laptop. And I have a plan too: Mon Wed Fri Sun are for Firefox and Tues, Thur Sat are for Chrome and Safari.

You know, I often work with my laptop about 4-5 hours a day, so it is really boring if I just have 1 web browser right?

Chrome  is quite fast loading and simple, I think. I feel its style is as simple as Safari, but it is much enough for me to config what I wanna do.

The first thing I do with G. Chrome is that I import all my farorite sites and my saved passwords!  But there was no luck for importing passw from Firefox! It didn’t work at all. I just wanted to uninstall Chrome, because there are a lot of saved passw in Firefox that I can not remember all of them (with me x sites, 1 username but x passw!!!)

After feeling sad for 2 minutes ^^, I found out the answer.

1- If you are using any different themes from the default theme for Firefox, please change it back to the default theme of Firefox.

2- If you have a master passw for Firefox, you have to remove it.

Then just use “Import bookmarks and settings” from Chrome to import theme from your Firefox. And I should tell you that Chrome has not supported MASTER PASSW to protect your saved passw yet! Hope that this function will be available soon in Chrome!

That’s it!

Move Joomla! configuration to another safe place

For ex. we have

/www/configuration.php

(Or /www/joomla etc/configuration.php)

Now we would like move config content to /configruation.php (out of WWW directory).

1- Create a NEW.cf in / You will have /NEW.cf

2- Copy your  configuration content in /www/configuration.php to /NEW.cf

3- Change configuration content in /www/configuration.php to

<?php
require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/../NEW.cf’ );
?>

For more security, you may chmode the configuration in /www/configuration.php to 644

Good luck!

Join many mp3 files to one large file with command fromt or MakeitOne

Target: We need to join many mp3 files to one large file.

=> There are two ways to do it.

1- Just use command fromt

Fist of all, you copy all files needed to join to a directory, for instance, C:\join

Start > run, type: cmd

Go to the just created directory by the command: cd C:\join

To join all files in that directory, type: copy /b *.mp3 C:\onelarge.mp3

Just some of selected songs in the directory: copy /b file1.mp3+file2.mp3 c:\onelarge.mp3

2- Use software.

There is a good and free software to do this task: MakeitOne. It can join many audio files very quickly.

Download: http://www.makeitone.net/downloads/index.htm

Import very large SQL Dumps to the webserver by using BigDump

BigDump: Staggered MySQL Dump Importer

Staggered import of large and very large MySQL Dumps (like phpMyAdmin 2.x Dumps) even through the web servers with hard runtime limit and those in safe mode. The script executes only a small part of the huge dump and restarts itself. The next session starts where the last was stopped.

mozilla-mplayer plugin for firefox: BBC, CBC and Stage6 streaming videos micro-howto

After a long time using the feature-less VLC-Plugin, and messing things up with the MediaPlayerConnectivity plugin to open lots of stand-alone VLC windows every time I wanted to watch BBC or CBC News videos, I finally got the Mplayer plugin to work fine and play all those embedded videos with no stuttering or annoyances.

Hardy Heron (8.04) (for previous versions, scroll to the bottom of this post)

While Stage6 does not exist anymore, the daily BBC News Videos are still a challenge for Ubuntu. Out of the box, Hardy cannot play them. Even after installing hardy’s restricted codecs (which we will do below), they do not work past the BBC corporate announcement, and even that takes about half a minute to start playing back.

We will fix the problem by reconfiguring Firefox to use the Mplayer plugin, installing the restricted codecs (to ensure windows media plays) and later installing the Real Video codecs from the Medibuntu repo. Finally, we will set the BBC News site preferences to stream Real Video. The end result will be: BBC news video play nicely and start very fast, plus all other sites to windows media or flash streaming work fine as well.

First part: the mplayer plugin and the basic codecs

Edit audio tag in Ubuntu with Tagtool

This program is great! Try it.

Install

sudo apt-get install tagtool

Run Mac OS X on an Eee PC

From Wired How-To Wiki

Feel like stepping beyond the limits of Apple hardware? Want a Mac netbook for under $650? How about an EeePC running Mac OS X?

At least part of the appeal of the dimunitive EeePC netbook is its hackability — from Linux to Vista, intrepid hackers have figured out how to run just about everything on the EeePC.

In fact, this tutorial was written on a Mac OS X-powered EeePC.

While many would question why you’d want to go to the trouble of installing OS X when there are many Windows and Linux distributions available out of the box? Maybe you’re looking for a challenge. Installing OS X on non-Apple hardware provides plenty of chances to flex those (very metaphorical) geek muscles.

Glamour Shots

Here’s the profile view.

Portrait view.

With Photoshop.

Feeling adventurous? Let’s start hacking.

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