Gnome 3 screenshot with conky dock

2011-08-18 1 min read Fedora GNOME

Just to give you a idea of how beautiful it looks, here’s a screenshot 🙂

[gnome3-desktop][1]
gnome3-desktop
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Gnome 3 shell themes

2011-08-12 2 min read Fedora GNOME

Working gnome-shell on an Intel 945GM
Image by grantc via Flickr

If you are using gnome-shell and are bored with the same default theme then read on…. 🙂

By default changing the default theme requires that you modify the files yourself or copy few files to the required directories. Well, if this is not in your scheme of things for changing the theme, a very simple task. Now, you can simply do this with gnome shell extensions.

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bash completion

2011-08-09 2 min read Bash Fedora Linux

I was working on some functions in bash to make my life easier and realized that if I added custom completion to my functions, it will be really good. So I headed over to google and searched for what I wanted. I did get a lot of information on bash completion but not a single concrete example that could help me do what I wanted. So, with the help of man pages and some results from the Google pages, I was finally able to accomplish what I wanted. So here it is:

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Installing Full Blin g theme on N900

2011-08-03 1 min read Maemo N900

I was going through the post : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=46739
and found the theme quite intruging but not complete to the point where I can download the deb file and install it in /usr/share/theme/ dir with simple commands “apt-get” or at max just use mkdir command to create the dir and dump everything in that dir. So, I wrote this couple of bash one liners to copy the required files to my N900.

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Some pictures from Burj Khalifa

2011-08-01 1 min read Photo

DSC_3593{.shutterset_}

 

[php]
$file = ‘/var/chroot/home/content/02/6377202/html/wp/wp-content/uploads/copper_albums/Parks_Dubai/orig_DSC_5287.jpg’;
$exif = exif_read_data(“$file”, 0, true);
$key=”EXIF“;
$exif = exif_read_data(“$file”, “$key”);
echo “[table border=”1”]”;
//foreach ($exif as $key => $section) {
//similar_text($section, ‘EXIF’, $p);
//if ( $p == 0 )
//{
foreach ($exif as $name => $val) {
echo “[tr]”;
echo “$key.$name ”;
echo “$val ”;
echo “[/tr]”;
}
//}
//}
echo “[/table]”;
[/php]

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Install the fastest Mozilla browser on your N900

2011-07-02 2 min read Maemo N900

Firefox 7.0 is the browser that I am currently using on my N900. Its pretty fast compared to its predecessors. Its not even in BETA and all you can get is the nightly build. For me, its okay, as I like playing with my systems and mobile. If that is okay with you read on….

Head over to the firefox nightly build website Firefox Nightly Builds. Go to the links for the mobile version and then select Maemo build and download it.. Copy the tar.bz2 file to your N900 or directly download it from the handset 🙂

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