Category: Other Downloads

Downloadable Items, usually freeware or Free and Open Source Software

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Tango Icons Theme on Nokia Symbian Phone

I know, I know. Tango icons has been done to the death on websites, documents, presentations and as Desktop icons. This is due to the popularity of Tango icons itself. and thanks to the liberal Creative Commons license, everybody is free to use the icons (without paying royalty) as long as they give credits (attribution) to the Tango icon project.

Checkout this cool Symbian Series 60 theme. It almost made your phone looks like its running a Linux based operating system, does it?

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This theme can be downloaded from Tango Symbian60 Theme website and is available for Noka Symbian Series 60 2nd and 3rd Edition.

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Ubuntu Alternative : Get Linux Mint

Linux Mint – a yet another Linux distro based on Ubuntu has made a fourth release last month, Daryna.

Originally started as no more than Ubuntu-distro preinstalled with proprietary multimedia codecs, Linux Mint now focussed on providing user-friendly Linux distribution complete with customizable desktop which achieved through its unique configuration tools.

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The latest release Daryna, is based on Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, and compatible with Gutsy repositories, meaning that you can receive (security) updates release from Ubuntu team for your installation.

Another Linux Mint area of focus is making everything works out from the box including Wifi and various multimedia file format which uses proprietary codecs.

Currently Linux Mint Daryna is available on 3 different download version :- Main, Light and KDE Community Edition. Linux Mint is only currently available for 32bit PC platform only.

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Download Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon DVD Repository

It is a well known fact that Ubuntu Linux distribution has a comprehensive application collection from its repositories which can be installed at anytime provided the users have a relatively fast internet connection.

However there are still places in the world which do not have access to such connection which may prevent users from installing new applications on their Ubuntu operating system. Luckily somebody took the time to put Ubuntu Gutsy software repository into a collection of DVDs which may be handy if you are going to introduce Ubuntu to your friends which does not have an internet connection at his home.

The repository DVDs are available for i386 and 64bit platform and are divided to 5 DVDs. The DVD images (size up to 4.0GB) are downloadable for free from ftp://tuma.ui.edu/pub/ubuntu-repository/gutsy/.

Please refer to the Jigdo tutorial from Debian website on how to download the DVD using Jigdo.

Instructions on how to add the DVD repository to your Ubuntu operating system is detailed here : Add CD/DVD apt Repository.

An Indonesian version of the instruction is also available from : http://wiki.ubuntu-id.org/DistribusiDvdReposUbuntu

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DOSBox: How to play DOS games in Ubuntu Linux

This post will show you how to play old DOS games using DOSBox emulator under GNU/Linux operating system. This post assumes that you’re:

  • Familiar with DOS and Linux command shell
  • Have a DOS game on-hand to test the emulator
  • Already installed DOSBox in Linux Operating system

First unzip/copy the DOS game in a suitable directory (preferable your home directory),

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A WordPress HTML Exploit discovered, please patch it now!

Security focus has published information regarding WordPress HTML Injection Vulnerability which may allow attackers to inject PHP code straight into your WordPress blog.

This can lead the attackers do nasty things such as deleting your post, defacing your blog, dropping your entire post (read: delete all your post !) and other dangerous attack. This particular vulnerability affects all WordPress release from 1.2.1 to 2.0.5, WordPress 2.0.6 (currently in RC2) is not affected by this vulnerability.

WordPress bloggers are advised to apply patch released from WordPress team in order to secure their blog from malicious users.

Applying the patch is simple, all you need to do is download the zip archive from WordPress Trac, unzip it and upload wp-admin folder to your WordPress host, overwriting the old template.php file.

Thanks to Faizi for blogging about this.

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[tags]wordpress, open source, blogger, blogs, blogging, blog, security,exploits[/tags]

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Read OpenDocument files from Mobile Phone

Finally I’ve found a nice software for reading my OpenDocument file in mobile phone, It is called Mobile Office from Mobi-System. Mobile Office supports reading from OpenDocument text (*.odt), OpenDocument SpreadSheet (*.ods) and OpenDocument Presentation (*.odp).

OpenDocument has been my format of choice because I use OpenOffice for preparing most of my documents, OpenDocument file is significantly smaller, and widely supported across computer platform.

Mobi-System has released Mobile Office as Freeware and can be downloaded from Symbian Freeware website.

I hope that somebody will come out with an Open Source OpenDocument reader for mobile phone someday soon, because it is handy to have document reader on phone while you’re travelling around.

Read about Mobile Office at Mobile Programming Pit

[tags]openoffice, opendocument, odt,symbian,nokia,s60[/tags]