PIDGIN - Add Yahoo Smiley

In ubuntu we use Pidgin as default chatting manager. Sometimes when our friend send us smiley from Yahoo Messenger, we can't see it, because not integrated with those picture. So to make pidgin has a group yahoo smiley we need install it in our pidgin. This is just easy step to make it.

1. First download the smiley group in here
2. Then open the tools menu in pidgin, choose preferences --> Smiley theme
3. Drag and drop the download file to this window
4. After that choose the name of this theme in list. Its name is "Origin"
5. Then try to chat with your friend and see the smiley is change to yahoo smiley.

Flex Builder on Ubuntu

Do you know Flex? Flex is one platform language to build web or desktop application from Adobe.

Flex is a highly productive, free open source framework for building and maintaining expressive web applications that deploy consistently on all major browsers, desktops, and operating systems. While Flex applications can be built using only the free Flex SDK, developers can use Adobe® Flex® Builder™ 3 software to dramatically accelerate development

~ Adobe

Flex builder was build to run in Windows and Macintosh only. But Adobe also hear some advice to make it on Linux. This tutorial show you how to install Flex Builder in your Ubuntu. Flex Builder Linux is a plugin-only version of the Flex Builder that you can use to build Flex applications on Linux.

1. Make sure Java common libraries in your PC was install the latest. To check this you can go to Synaptic Manager and find "java-common" then apply it. Thanks for insideria to remember me this.
2. Go to Adobe web and download Flex Builder Linux Alpha and save in your home. You can download it here.
3. Flex builder is a plugin in Eclipse, so you must have Eclipse first. You can search in Add/Remove Program and find Eclipse version 3.3.x or above.
   
4. Run the installer either marking it as executable (chmod +x) or by using a shell to execute it (sh flexbuilder_linux_install_a4_081408.bin).
5. Then you can start Eclise. You must create a new workspace before beginning. Select File > Switch Workspace from the menu bar and enter a new folder name. If the folder doesn't exist, Eclipse creates it.
   
6. You can see your flex builder now in your Ubuntu.
   

Glade3 and PyGTK in Ubuntu

Something new in my programming vocabulary is python language. This language natively work in Linux, but as if you know, this language is multi cross platform. It can be run in Windows, Mac, Symbian, n others. First I use gedit as editor to run this script, but it is more advantage if i can use a nice RAD for python. After googling and an advice from my friend, I found good RAD is Glade-3. You can install it in your ubuntu with this command :

sudo apt-get install glade-3

then you can run this software and get this window :

Google Chrome in Ubuntu 8.10

Popularity Google Chrome is definitely increasing, although so far it is only available for Windows OS and Linux and Mac users await the launch of Google Chrome for Linux and Mac OS. And the good news is Google Chrome is now available for Linux OS users.

This browser's status is still the name of Pre alpha browser Chromium, an open source engine behind Google Chrome project. Chromium for Linux have facilities-based interface GTS (mediator) and the appearance of work such as the Windows interface.

Because the status is still pre Alpha, chromium for linux this does not have many features that are important such as a bookmark manager, tab, and not in the trial and may not be functioning at all, but the PPA provides instructions to install.

Here some description from Launcpad.net

Ubuntu daily builds of the Chromium browser.
The PPA is maintained by a bot, so it contains completely untested builds, mostly useful to track regressions or if you are curious, or just brave.

The package is still a work-in-progress, so is Chromium, please be patient.

FAQ:
* no native 64bit debs planed for now. The amd64 package is using ia32-libs.
* if it crashes, you can get a proper backtrace from gdb by installing the -dbg package

Project page for Chromium in Ubuntu: https://launchpad.net/chromium-project

To add your sources.list, just add this command and update its.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Installing LAMP Package Server on Ubuntu

There are 2 way if you want to install LAMP in your ubuntu, first you can install one by one, PHP5, MySQL, Apache2, the second is simple way, you can install the package of this all software.
First you go to Terminal (Alt +F2) than type this command :

sudo tasksel install lamp-server

than you can see this window terminal change same as below.



After that you must restart your php to see if its work. Type this command :

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

To ensure there are no issues with PHP let's give it a quick test run. In the terminal copy/paste the following line:

sudo gedit /var/www/index.php

write this code, dont forget to add < ? and ? > after and before coding :

php phpinfo();

Save and close the file. Now open you're web browser and type the following into the web address: http://localhost/index.php. This will open up a file called phptest.php, you can see it might like this image :



If this file appear, so you have great full install php5 on your apache.
This package is include those software :
# apache2
# php5
# mysql-server
# php5-mysql

UNETBOOTIN - best installation ubuntu in flashdisk / harddisk

Some days ago I have trouble in one PC which old and never use again. Actually, this PC have many feature in there when its time, but now this PC have a significant troubleshooting. I don't know maybe because some file system corrupt, so I could not booting Windows XP from this PC. The other problem is CD Player in this PC was damaged. So no option for installing new fresh Windows. I think I will make it for Ubuntu 8.10. When searching from live CD, I see an application "Make USB Startupdisk" an try it with my flash disk. Before that I try to install it in my Hard Disk External, but I don't know why, it can not read my HD. So I install it in my flashdisk. Than i try in my PC, but it seem not workin, there an error "Missing System Operation", so I try with another flash disk (coz i think maybe there some corrupt file).
But here i know something in internet, there are many bug in this application, so I try another alternatif. In ubuntu document explain another application called UNetbootin. I try to install it, and ta da.. it recognize my HD, and when I try to install in the trouble PC, it can startup and easily booting. So i can install my ubuntu. Oh there another feature in this application, you can install with an iso from another linux distribution, or you can also use option download directly from distro server.
So if you want to install your ubuntu (or other distro) in your hard disk or flash disk, I suggest you need UNetbootin to used. You can download it from this URL http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

New improvement in WineHQ 1.1.16

The Wine development release 1.1.16 is now available.

What's new in this release (see below for details):

* Improved SANE scanner support.
* Support for digital CD audio playback.
* Improved cookies management in Wininet.
* Support for building stand-alone 16-bit modules.
* Many fixes to the regression tests on Windows.
* Various bug fixes.

The source is available from the following locations:

http://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/system/emulators/wine/wine-1.1.16.tar.bz2
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.1.16.tar.bz2

Binary packages for various distributions will be available from:

http://www.winehq.org/site/download

Some nice tricks using GIMP

GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.

It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

Here an link that teach you some tricks manipulation photo :
1. Neon Light Tutorial
2. Recolor eyes
3. Making a pencil drawing from a photo
4. and another cool tricks..

Nice if you can learn to and posting your image result, and we can share many other about GIMP.

QGIS Installation (Linux-debian)

QGIS

QGIS is one of GIS software with open source licensing under the GNU General Public License (GPL). That means that the source code used in building applications can we learn and change, and we can get for free. Unlike with commercial software in general, where the source code is closed so that the user can not develop their own application in accordance morning. QGIS is an abbreviation of Quantum Geographic Information System. GIS software is made starting in May 2002 and has been defined as projects in the SourceForge in June 2002. One of the advantages of this software QGIS is a lightweight and user-friendly. QGIS also has some version suitable with the platform, so it can run on Windows, Linux, and OSX. QGIS built using Qt and C + +. Early goal from making QGIS only as a viewer data only, but added with a growing variety of other plugin that works as a database management, spatial analysis, or to attach the display, so now QGIS not powerfull compared to other software such as ArcView GIS, or GRASS.

QGIS installation on Linux as Ubuntu, can be done as follows:

1) From the terminal run the command:

sudo etc / apt / sources.list

2) If using the version of Hardy Heron, then add the following sentence at the end of the source file list:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/qgis/ubuntu Hardy main

Save these changes, and then run the terminal command:

sudo apt-get update & & sudo apt-get install qgis

Hi.. this post is written in Office 2007

In my office we use Microsoft Office as default office application. Sometimes i think why we rarely use free office like OpenOffice from sun, and the clearly answer is Office 2007 more powerfull than OpenOffice 3.0. One of this features is post your blog. In ubuntu i have try some blog posting application, but maybe because I am familiar with Word GUI, so write in Office Word 2007 is more interesting. You must first set your blog account, there some blog provider that support in Office 2007 such as Blogger, Wordpress, Windows Live Space, Typepad, and the others. For caution when you add a account, this blog and password was saved in office, and other people can use it. After that u can write title, and main page, add a category, picture, symbol, smart art, or see how much words you have wrote.

Some check spelling can easily use to make a good grammar sentences. Unfortunately in Blogger, you must write the url as picture hosting (you can get this URL when you upload picture manually), in wordpress it will automatically post in wordpress hosting. The second is you can't add tag or label in your post, so you must edit again your blog to add label or tag.

Open Source GIS in Linux

If we talk the application GIS that power full in the world for me is ArcGIS from ESRI. But this software is very expensive and to get some training in this application. So there is another alternatife open source? the answer is YES. But the true is every open source application have very dissapoint in one or two GIS component.
The GIS Component is :

1. Input Data
2. Manajemen Data
3. Manipulating and Analysis Data
4. Output Data

So this isthe best Major Favorite Open Source GIS Application :

1. GRASS

Good in Manipulating and Analysis Data Remote Sensing, lack on GUI













2. QGIS

Good in GUI and Input Data, lack on Output Data, and take some help addition other applications.










3. PostGIS and PostgreSQL

Application for Manajemen Data GIS











4. GPSBabel

To manage GPS Data










5. UDig

GIS Application that build from JAVA, niceGUI but running slowly











6. Thuban

Like QGIS, User Friendly Oriented











7. and many other you can see in http://opensourcegis.org

You can combine all of thats application above to make your GIS Software System rather than spent high cost to buy Commercial GIS. But if you need integrated and high demand on powerfull software, I just supposed advice ESRI as best GIS Application and use Windows as OS.

How To Install Google Earth in Ubuntu

Google Earth is one of famous free apllication that help people in GIS. You can view some information of data base georeference or just only view of surface region.
This is definition of Google Earth in Wikipedia :

Google Earth is a virtual globe program that was originally called Earth Viewer, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a company acquired by Google in 2004. It maps the earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe. It is available under three different licenses: Google Earth, a free version with limited functionality; Google Earth Plus ($20 per year), which includes additional features; and Google Earth Pro ($400 per year), which is intended for commercial use.[1]

The product, renamed Google Earth in 2006, is currently available for use on personal computers running Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, or Vista, Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above, Linux (released on June 12, 2006), and FreeBSD. Google Earth is also available as a browser plugin (released on June 2, 2008) for Firefox, IE6, or IE7. In addition to releasing an updated Keyhole based client, Google also added the imagery from the Earth database to their web based mapping software. The release of Google Earth in mid 2006 to the public caused a more than tenfold increase in media coverage on virtual globes between 2006 and 2007,[2] driving public interest in geospatial technologies and applications.

Now how to install Google Earth in our Ubuntu. Just tpe this command in Terminal :

wget http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin ; chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin ; sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin

That command will automatically install google Earth in /opt/Google-Earth directory and make a shortcut in your desktop

BIBLETIME – DO YOU LIKE READING BIBLE ?

Sometime you will very hungry of your soul if you forget about God words. As your body, your soul need feeds too.

Bible is not only a book of morality or history, it is a book where some people write it an contain truly God speak. Human is a creature, so he begin from zero, he don't have any knowledge know act that he brings before he birth. So he don't know actually what is event before and after he live. But in bible we learn more about our creature and about lives, don't that is the most object that we search in this world???.

Ok, let's back to the bible, how if it bring to digital archive. In past time, our evangelist write bible in papyrus or paper word by word and distribute them by foot. Now bible have write in digital so we can easy to distribute it and take to anywhere. That is make bible lost some find of it mean?? I think maybe yes, because if read from digital compare from paper, I think better read from paper. But it doesn't mean digital bible is worse. An application of digital bible archiving is Bible Time.


You can choose your bible with your prefer language that you like from its library. First you must download it. Unfortunately there is not Indonesian Bible (Alkitab) in its library. I hope someday there will be able.


But don't get sad for Indonesian because in this library have a dictionary that can translate from Indonesian word to English.


The feature that I like from this application is search option. Like some priest that easily find some reference from bible about a theme, we also can get where we will be find a keyword that related in bible. Such as, if we want to find “family” word in KJV bible, than it will search and get 76 hits.

ALBUM SHAPER – ARCHIEVE YOUR JOURNEY

I love traveling, and of course I love photographic too. Event I have go to somewhere awesome, going for some reason job or only for refreshing, I like to documentation my visited place, such as Jogjakarta, Bandar Lampung, Bali, Central Borneo, Bandung, Semarang, etc..

After I get home and transfer my journey photo in my laptop, I just put it in one folder every session journey. Rather that, I rarely to open it again or fix all my photos. How to fix my photo, I think is very waste some time in use GIMP, because as you know, to open GIMP need more memory. After that I have search an application in ADD/REMOVE APPLICATION, then I found Album Shaper application.

I try to use this software to manage every journey documentation. First to use this application, you must install it from accessories list in ADD/REMOVE APPLICATION, just search in keyword “Album Shaper”, than you can use it.


You must initial your album from album name, description, author, collection name, and its description. You can put a photo as cover album. Then search your folder where you put your photos so the software will get them.

If you have not familiar with this application, you can go to help menu, there will be a simple tutorial to use this application.


As I said before, you can fix your photos with this application. Choose “edit” tab in above your photos list. You can change the photo with some feature that use full. Those feature are :

• Rotating & Flipping
• Batch Effect
• Tilt Correction
• Cropping
• Enhancing your photo
• Color Correction
• Contrast Correction
• Red Eye Removal
• Histogram Editing, Brightness and Contrast
• Grain Enhancement
• Stylize your photo as emboss it, etc.

After finish your editing, you can save your album. There are some template to use your album. Just choose that you like, then it will make some file and folder to put your album.


There are still some feature to make your album can publish in internet that call export as web gallery, or you just let the file so it can opened in internet browser

SYSINFO – SHOW INFO ABOUT YOUR COMPUTER

Application that show you basic information about your computer simply is Sysinfo. This utility is simple information to understand performance of your computer from Hardware to Software and another info.
First information is about your system. It will tell you what is your Operation System, version and its kernel.


Then it will tell you the CPU specification : name, frequencies, and L2 cache


It also tell you memory and swap percentage uses of your computer.


Want to know the name vendor and capacity of your storage? It can tell you too.


Some info about your hardware include Motherboard, Graphic Card, Sound Card, and Network specification


If you have NVIDIA or ATI graphic card, it will show you some setting about this graphic card.

SAMBA – HOW TO SHARE FILES WITH ANOTHER COMPUTER

When you connect in a LAN, you may want share your file with another PC in your network. There a different system disk between Linux and Windows. Windows actually use NTFS or FAT, Linux use SDA or SHA. So there will a crash when your friend from another PC with Windows OS while he download your file in Linux OS. When we use Windows, easily we can share our file with right click file than choose “share this file/folder”. But in Linux you must share your file with a toll called SAMBA. This utility can you install in ADD/REMOVE APPLICATION than type “samba” in Find box then install it.
To share your file and can see from Windows in another PC, open SAMBA application, then click “add share” than browse your file. Give some description, and you can make this file could be written by another user in network, or just make it visible.


You can also make some privilege for your file, with add user that can access your file in access bar. Type user that you want to access it.

NEVERPUTT – CHALLENGE FOR MINIGOLF GAME

If you boring with task that given to you, you can play game for a moment. In my Ubuntu, one of my favorite game is Neverputt. This game is simulation for minigolf with OpenGL. To install it you doesn't require a emulator like WINE or CEDEGA. Just go to ADD/REMOVE APPLICATION, then type to find box “neverputt”, than apply it.
When you first play this game, it will begin menu PLAY, OPTIONS, and EXIT. Let it set default, just click PLAY


Then you have to choose level that challenge for you. There three option : EASY, MIDLLE, HARD. Than you must choose many player, if you want to battle with computer choose 1 Player.


You will play from easy field in this level, you must defeat the computer, he have make some step to put ball in hole (computer name is PAR, in right side corner). You must make step more few to win this game.


After one field finished, you will go to next field until 16 field. To win this game make sure you have total score more few than computer.


To move your ball you must set direction and strange of shoot with move your cursor to right and left or to up and down. I can print screen when this game play, it will be pause, to make play again just press SPACE key. Enjoy it..

MIRAGE – SIMPLE PICTURE EDITOR FOR LINUX

When you use Windows there a simple software name Microsoft Picture Manager that you can use to edit your picture or photo. Mirage is same software like that.

Not like GIMP as picture editor for professional, this software is best choose to easy and fast edit photo like cropping, edit brightness/saturation, resize and make a thumbnail. But this software is not bundling with Ubuntu when you first install it. You must go to ADD/REMOVE APPLICATION, just type “mirage” in find box, than install it.
The most feature that we usually use is :


1. Change Brightness / Saturation


2. Resize picture


3. Cropping image as we like


4. Make a thumbnail from image, in default it will make thumbnail with JPEG format and 150x150px size. To change it just go to edit-->configure than edit command for make thumbnail with size that you like.

So there some better feature Mirage from Microsoft Picture Manage. Mirage can make thumbnail action with size optional. But mirage not provide more setting for brightness and set picture as wallpaper.

AVANT WINDOW NAVIGATOR – NICE LOOK BAR FOR LINUX

Avant window navigator is a eye candy tool for Linux that use to place some shortcut. This tool like bar but with some feature that make me like to see.


There many action move that we can see when a shortcut hover by mouse, or opened, or closed. There action of shortcut is :
1. classic
2. fade
3. spotlight
4. zoom
5. squish
6. 3d turn
7. 3d spotlight turn
8. glow
9. custom (to alternate every action)
If you want to install this tool, the easy way is you can go to ADD/REMOVE APLLICATION, then write in find box “avant”, then will appears the list and check it (make sure you choose “all available application”) then click APPLY.


If you want to launch this tool, you can choose in menu-->application-->avant window navigator, or you can type it in run box with keyword “avant-window-navigator”. If the bar not appear, you must first check the desktop effect is provide 3d in menu preference-->appearance


Then you can make setting in your bar with right click than choose preference. The preference window will opened. Than you can choose the action of shortcut that you like.


To make bar look 3D (not flat) just go to “bar appearance” tab, then choose “3D Look” in look option.


This tool will only appears if you click its shortcut in menu bar, to make it default show when you first open your Ubuntu, go to preference-->session than click “add” then type “avant-window-navigator”

JENI Java Programming in Indonesia

In Indonesia, Sun as a big company that Introduce Java Programming has a program education that call JENI (Java Education Network Indonesia), that give some tutorial from basic to advance. They have curriculum that have a goal to bring student good in :
1. Java for Web (J2EE)
2. Java for Mobile (J2ME)
3. Java for Game
So interesting, cause this one of programm that can help student for free learning. I have read the tutorial, and I think this good for who have not learnin Java (for beginning). As I am too never use Java cause I prefer Visual Basic with simplicity.

If you interesting what is the goal of this JAVA program and want to read their tutorial you can download here