Category Archives: Tips

Nokia E-63 on Linux

By Sreejith K | Published: November 14, 2009
Recently I bought a Nokia E-63 Symbian Series 60 3rd edition smartphone. It looks similar to the Blackberry smartphones. It has got QWERTY keypad, WiFi, 2MP Camera, 3G and Bluetooth. I have been using Nokia 6300 for a long time; and a month ago it fell down and the panel got broken. After the fall [...]
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Twitter on Pidgin

By Sreejith K | Published: September 18, 2009
There you go… Now there is a Pidgin plugin available for Twitter updates. For Ubuntu Linux users its very easy to install it. They only need to add Ubuntu PPA repository and install the plugin using apt. deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main Import PPA keys using the following command sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com [...]
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Building DVD Images Of Ubuntu Repositories

By Sreejith K | Published: January 2, 2009
Many of the user’s/first time tester’s of Linux (Ubuntu) are having difficulties in installing a softwares that are not pre-shipped with the distribution CDs. Most of the home user’s don’t have an unlimited bandwidth broadband connection to download all those softwares through Synaptic or other package managers. This is a HOWTO for the unlimited bandwidth [...]
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Making Photo Slideshow DVD’s under Linux

By Sreejith K | Published: January 1, 2009
As there are no simpler graphical tools available under Linux for this purpose, I’m explaining the method to create a slideshow video DVD of images/photos using a commandline tool called dvd-slideshow. Don’t be scared. It’s not that hard It can be installed via Synaptic under Ubuntu OR you can fetch the latest from here. Preparing [...]
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