Tech FREAKY - beta

The latest version of Ubuntu is recently released. Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron is the second release of the popular Linux operating system to offer Long Term Support (LTS). As you can imagine this is extremely important in the corporate world where IT departments can’t afford to hassle with upgrading the operating system every six months.
Here is the list of some new features introduced:

• Wubi - Install and uninstall Ubuntu in Windows as if it were a simple Windows application. It does not need a dedicated partition to operate, but it is still able to offer a dual-boot setup.
• PulseAudio - Mix audio from multiple applications together, adjust the volume for each specific application, and more.
• Xorg 7.3 - Includes a new Screen Resolution utility that allows users to dynamically configure the resolution, refresh rate, and rotation of a second monitor. This will be particularly handy for laptop users that connect to a projector or external monitor.
• Firefox 3 (Beta 5) - Integrates much better into the operating system.
• Brasero - CD/DVD burning application
• Transmission - BitTorrent client
• World Clock Applet - The GNOME panel clock can display the time and weather of multiple locations around the world.
• Vinagre - Remote desktop (VNC) client
• Totem - Movie player that includes a plugin for directly searching and playing YouTube videos.
• Inkscape - Native PDF support that provides an easy way to edit text and graphics in PDF documents.

And that’s just for Ubuntu! Don’t forget to check out some of the other variants:

• Kubuntu 8.04 - A KDE version of Ubuntu. There’s now a “cutting edge” version available that includes KDE 4.0!
• Edubuntu 8.04 - Designed for the education setting, and includes iTalc classroom management software allowing for teacher sharing, monitoring, and control of networked workstations.
• Xubuntu 8.04 - Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop environment which is geared towards less-powerful computers. Have an old computer sitting around? Put it to work with this Ubuntu variant!

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Blogging being a new hype and on running bussiness nowadays, every one trying to find new ways to have online presence or to earn some money via online advertising, even those with some creative brains are chosing the blogging as easiest platform to work online and to contact their customers.

Blogging is getting easier as new ways are coming for userfriendly blogging experience along with new CMS systems for different needs and types of blogging.

This tutorial is about Installing a CMS locally on Windows Xp, process is same for many of the CMS so here I’ll write about how to install wordpress.

Important Note: CMS need a webserver mysql or php to run, locally this function is done by XAMP Lite. Xamp is a localserver easy to setup, easy to run, easy to tweak. It is so easy that you will install you own wordpress or CMS locally in just 10 minutes.

1. Get XAMP Lite (for Windows) and Install it in “C:\” Drive

2. Browse and go to C:\xampplite there double click setup_xampp or setup_xampp.bat

3. Once that is done, double click xampp-control.exe and click on start the Apache and Mysql services.

Note: Certain errors can resist and service may not start. One error may be about mysql or apache is busy. For that simply go to Start > Run > type cmd a command line interface will open, there type iisreset / stop after 3 sec iis service will be stopped, then try to start that service again. (or get more info on this here).

4. Now open your browser (may it be Firefox, I.E, Safari, Opera etc) and go to this address: http://localhost/. From the menu on the left column, choose your preferred language. Although english is default if your PC is on English language by default.

5. Now that the interface displays a language that you can understand, click on phpMyAdmin (on the left column once again)

6. Enter “wordpress” (without quotes) in the “Create New Database” Field, and select utf8_unicode_ci in the drop down box in the next field (as shown in the picture below). Click on Create. The Xampp setup is now complete.

It is needed by wordpress CMS, for certain other CMS or another wordpress installation, you can name it as you like, simply mention it as it is while in installation process.

7. Download Wordpress and unzip it under c:\xampplite\htdocs.

8. Upto this step we have a wordpress folder in c:\xampplite\htdocs. Browse and go to the folder, and you will see a file named wp-config-sample.php. Open it in your text editor and replace the default values by the ones you as follows (below). Save the file with the changes as wp-config.php (under the same folder). Note we have removed the “-sample” in the file name.

// ** MySQL settings ** //
define(’DB_NAME’, ‘wordpress’); // The name of the database
define(’DB_USER’, ‘root’); // Your MySQL username
define(’DB_PASSWORD’, ”); // …and password (needs to be empty, just for local install)
define(’DB_HOST’, ‘localhost’); // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value.

9. Open browser and go to http://localhost/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php , follow all instructions, and finally you are done with the setup.

Among all blog publishing tool including qumana, msn writer, etc I liked the Scribe Fire extension of the Firefox, which quite handy as well as easy to use and add blog of any type and location and almost any blogging platform for easy publishing.

It seems it’s Firefox or it is scribe fire team who read my mind, dont know when but they added the most wanted feature I needed first time I used the scribe (when it was named as performancing), the alignment and in text toggle feature of images and between posts.

Simply put up the extension from the here, open the extension from the firefox status bar by a single click on the golden notepad and by the sidebar add your blog by selecting your own blogging platform tanging from blogger, typepad, wordpress, wordpress hosted even jeeran is there.

Write a post and add tags to the specific post and press Publish. For advanced users one may also see the coding of the post for any changing or lookup.

Enjoy the best publishing platform !

[Wavelog] is new tool to enable S60 Nokia Phones to directly blog from phone. One can post content as text, image, audio or video.

Wavelog does not restrict users to a specific blog hosting provider, social network or an intermediate content aggregation. It permits a complete freedom for choosing blog hosting provider or even installing own blog publishing system on the Internet, extranet, intranet, or a local area network. It is designed for performance, scalability and reliability, so it is coded in C++ programming language as a native S60 application. Wavelog does not use any form of usage tracking for targeted advertisement or direct marketing purposes.

It has been developed and tested successively on Nokia N95 mobile phones posting to the WordPresspublishing system.