Technology For Human Being
#Add the websites that matters to you
Are you frustrated with navigating multiple websites and managing too many passwords?
#Are you experiencing difficulty accessing your information?
Simply select your personal accounts from social networking, email and travel to entertainment, banking, credit cards and much more and add them to your personal page
(more…)
Popularity: 5% [?]
Enter PdfMeNot. Like Scribd, DocStoc, and Issuu, PdfMeNot instantly converts PDF files into Flash media that can be quickly loaded in any web browser. You can either embed the Flash image on your site or offer readers a download link to the original PDF file. And you can convert files that are already online by entering a URL or upload files from your desktop.
PdfMeNot, which was developed by the folks behind BugMeNot and RetailMeNot, has a few tricks up its sleeve that other services lack. For example, if you want to view any online PDF as a Flash image, just enter http://pdfmenot.com/view/ before the URL. For example, http://pdfmenot.com/view/http://test.com/document.pdf.
The coolest trick comes in the form of a browser bookmarklet. All you have to do is drag this boomarklet to your browser toolbar and any time you visit a site with links to PDF documents, click the bookmarklet. Every PDF link on the page will be converted to a Flash link, saving you the frustration of dealing with PDF documents online.
PdfMenot is in private beta until Thursday. Until then, you can login to the site with the username “stateless” and the password “system.”
Popularity: 6% [?]
Here you can learn how to change the normal .psd thumbnail to a thumbnail (small picture) of the actuall ducument! It’ also pretty easy, and work with Photoshop CS and above. In earlier versions, I think this was standard, but I don’t know.
So recently, I did a little research about this and found out that you just had to download and add some files. On the bottom of this page I have added the files needed, and here comes a little tutorial on how to do it:
1. Extract the .zip (obviously)
2. Copy psicon.dll to C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Shell. If the Shell folder doesn’t exist, just make a new folder and call it “Shell” inside the Adobe folder.
Popularity: 6% [?]
NOTE: Some parts of this tutorial is probably outdated.
This tutorial will cover steps that needs to be done to enabled your shiny new Nokia (almost any recent brand that have data connectivity, including N80, N81, N95, N93, 6680, 6630, etc.) to work as modem under Linux. I am using Ubuntu "Dapper Drake" for this guide. But it should be easily adapted to whatever Linux distribution your are using. Basically, your Nokia phone will be automatically detected using the cdc-acm driver. But this driver have some drawback for me. Up until kernel 2.6.15, I am experiencing problems with cdc-acm such as:
I cannot get full data transfer speed using cdc-acm driver. My 3G download rate stuck at around 144 kbps. This problem only manifest itself when you use the USB sync cable to connect to your Linux box. Using Bluetooth, you get full 384 kbps speed. Go figure…
It oops (crash) just to often. Unplug the USB cable, bang it crash. Battery flat, bang it crash again. After a while, it becomes rather tiring.
So, not willing to give up my Ubuntu, I started digging. Eventually I realized I can use the usbserial driver for my Nokia. And turns out, the usbserial is at least much better when used with my Nokia 6630 and 6680 when connected to USB sync cable compared to cdc-acm.
I get full 384 kbps on my Celcom 3G connection. Way to go!
More stable, and not prone to oops compared to cdc-acm. I can plug and unplug the USB cable for all that I care, the driver just gracefully recover.
Enough background, lets start working.
1. I am using kernel 2.6.15 provided in the stock Dapper. It should work with other 2.6 kernel. No idea whether it will work on 2.4 kernel though.
2. Make sure you have ppp package installed. Execute the following if you do not have ppp installed.
sudo apt-get install ppp |
3. "Blacklist" your cdc-acm driver. Under Ubuntu, this can be easily achieved by this command:
| sudo echo "blacklist cdc-acm" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist |
4. Tell Ubuntu to automatically load the usbserial module.
| sudo echo "usbserial" >> /etc/modules |
5. Now trickiest part, setting your phone device ID as the
usbserial parameter.Issue the command lsusb.
| bitubique@bitubique:~/$ lsusb Bus 005 Device 006: ID 04cf:8818 Myson Century, Inc. Fast 3.5" External Storage Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0a81:0101 Chesen Electronics Corp. Keyboard Bus 001 Device 004: ID 1241:1177 Belkin F8E842-DL Mouse Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0421:041e Nokia Mobile Phones Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 |
If you have your phone plugged with the USB sync cable, it should appear here with description "Nokia Mobile Phones". Notice the vendor ID and the product ID, 0421:041e. Vendor ID is 0421, product ID is 041e for Nokia 6680. We need to put these IDs into out modprobe options. This can be done with this command:
| sudo echo "options usbserial vendor=0×0421 product=0×041e" >> /etc/modprobe.d/options |
Notice you need to prefix the IDs with "0x" qualifier, since the ID is specified in hex.
6. Now load the module. Ensure we have unloaded the cdc-acm driver first. As root, execute the following.
| rmmod cdc-acm modprobe usbserial |
7. Copy the following text and save it with name /etc/ppp/peers/provider. Especially, you need to change the line user "celcom3g" to the user name that your mobile operator assigned to use their GPRS / 3G Internet access. You probably need to become root user in order to write to /etc directory.
/dev/ttyUSB0 # Serial device to which the GPRS phone is connected debug # Comment this off, if you don't need more info # scripts to initialize the 3G / EDGE / GPRS modem connect /etc/ppp/peers/connect-chat # AT commands used to 'hangup' the connection disconnect /etc/ppp/peers/disconnect-chat 460800 # Serial port line speed crtscts # hardware flow control for cable local # Ignore carrier detect signal from the modem: lcp-echo-failure 0 lcp-echo-interval 0 # IP addresses: # - accept peers idea of our local address and set address peer as 10.6.6.6 # (any address would do, since IPCP gives 0.0.0.0 to it) # - if you use the 10. network at home or something and pppd rejects it, # change the address to something else :10.6.6.6 noipdefault # pppd must not propose any IP address to the peer! ipcp-accept-local # Accept peers idea of our local address defaultroute # Add the ppp interface as default route to the IP routing table replacedefaultroute # New route should be our default route to Internet usepeerdns # User DNS returned by server noauth # The phone is not required to authenticate # Most phone do not support compression, so turn it off. novj nobsdcomp novjccomp nopcomp noaccomp # Username and password: # If username and password are required by the APN, put here the username # and put the username-password combination to the secrets file: # /etc/ppp/pap-secrets for PAP and /etc/ppp/chap-secrets for CHAP # authentication. See pppd man pages for details. user "celcom3g" # Change this if you are not using Celcom 3G! persist # Persistent connection maxfail 99999 # Retry and retry and retry if failed... |
8. If your mobile operator requires you to give password to access the APN, then edit or create the file /etc/ppp/pap-secrets for PAP authentication or /etc/ppp/chap-secrets for CHAP authentication. The format should be as follows:
| # Secrets for authentication using CHAP. Format: # client server secret IP addresses "celcom3g" * "celcom3g" |
9. Copy the following text and save it as /etc/ppp/peers/connect-chat.
#!/bin/sh
exec chat \
TIMEOUT 5 \
ECHO ON \
ABORT '\nBUSY\r' \
ABORT '\nERROR\r' \
ABORT '\nNO ANSWER\r' \
ABORT '\nNO CARRIER\r' \
ABORT '\nNO DIALTONE\r' \
ABORT '\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r' \
'' \rAT \
TIMEOUT 12 \
SAY "Press CTRL-C to close the connection at any stage!" \
SAY "\ndefining PDP context...\n" \
OK ATH \
OK ATE1 \
OK ATD*99# \
TIMEOUT 22 \
SAY "\nwaiting for connect...\n" \
CONNECT "" \
SAY "\nConnected." \
SAY "\nIf the following ppp negotiations fail,\n" \
SAY "try restarting the phone.\n"
|
However, some network requires you to specify the APN. Thus, you need to add the following line after the "OK ATE1" line in the file /etc/ppp/peers/connect-chat.
OK 'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","your_apn_name","",0,0' \ |
10. Copy the following text and save it as /etc/ppp/peers/disconnect-chat.
#!/bin/sh # send break exec /usr/sbin/chat -V -s -S \ ABORT "BUSY" \ ABORT "ERROR" \ ABORT "NO DIALTONE" \ SAY "\nSending break to the modem\n" \ "" "\K" \ "" "\K" \ "" "\K" \ "" "\d\d+++\d\dATH" \ SAY "\nPDP context detached\n" |
11. Both the file /etc/ppp/peers/connect-chat and /etc/ppp/peers/disconnect-chat should have executable bit set. Thus, issue this command to set it as executable;
| chmod a+x /etc/ppp/peers/connect-chat chmod a+x /etc/ppp/peers/disconnect-chat |
12. Test your connection. Issue the command as root to check whether you are successful.
# pppd call provider
# ifconfig ppp0
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:10.176.226.135 P-t-P:10.6.6.6 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:38 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:7700 (7.5 KiB) TX bytes:3148 (3.0 KiB)
|
Voila! However, if the result of ifconfig ppp0 is blank, then you need to check /var/log/messages output to figure out why it failed.
13. Make your changes permanent. Under Ubuntu, this can be achieved easily creating an empty file ppp_on_boot in the /etc/ppp/ directory. The next time you restart your machine, connection to the Internet will be automatically established.
| touch /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot |
14. Enjoy your connectivity!
[via- bitubique]
Popularity: 29% [?]
One day you turn on your Windows Vista PC, and it gives you the dreaded “BOOTMGR is missing. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart” message, in menacing white font on black screen. So you hit Ctrl+Alt+Del only to get the same message again, and again, and again, in an infinite, terrible loop. You clutch your chest and rock back and forth and froth at the mouth for awhile.
Then you straighten up, take a deep breath, and grab the Vista installation DVD.
See, if your PC’s boot disk got bumped out of wack, you can often fix it right back up using the original Vista installation disk, which comes with a pretty extensive System Recovery Tool that’s got lots of options (see screengrab). Set your computer to boot from DVD (using the Boot setting in the BIOS), insert the disc and restart. Vista will prompt you for language and keyboard layout options, then ask if you want to reinstall Vista or repair your installation. You want Repair. From there Vista’s System Recovery Tool will take over, and lead you down the road to happy vistages again.
Popularity: 7% [?]
You probably already know that Firefox has a “full-screen” mode. If you hit F11, the Windows taskbar will disappear, as will the very top toolbar in Firefox. This lets you squeeze a little bit more text onto your screen.
But you can do better. Nvu lead engineer Daniel Glazman has developed a Firefox add-on called FullerScreen. Once you install it, hitting F11 will make everything but the web page you’re currently looking at disappear.
But wait, you say, I need my tabs and menu bars. Well, you could always just hit F11 to toggle back and forth between fullscreen and windowed mode. But if you move your cursor over the top of the screen, you’ll see your toolbars and tabs. Ditto for the bottom of the screen.
Popularity: 16% [?]
|
This site is design to perform exactly for Firefox only. Its the best browser in the planet. So, why dont you just ? |
 |
Subscribe in a reader
Or, subscribe via email:
 |
 |
