Access Linux files on Windows

As Linux is catching up, with the increasing popularity and aggressive marketing strategies of Ubuntu, many new users are trying Ubuntu on a dual boot. Those of you, who're using Windows and Linux on a dual boot might sometime need to access your Linux filesystem's stuff while working on Windows. For the n00bs its a serious problem. Here's the simplest solution. Just download Ext2IFS app and install it on Windows, and you're done! You can get it here http://www.fs-driver.org/extendeddl.html. Enjoy!

Happy New Year!!!

You might be wondering why didn't I wish you all yet? Well, this post is here for the same. Sorry for being late. Two successive papers on 1st Jan and 3rd Jan kept me busy, and another one is on 7th Jan. Fortunately, this will be the last one!!! *sigh of relief
I wish you all a very Happy New Year filled with prosperity, sparkles of joy, happiness. Your eyes will keep twinkling year long powered with fulfillment of all your wishes!!
Rest later...

YouTube/FLV and Padissimo on P1i

The latest Core Player 1.30 has built in support for streaming youtube videos! And, you can even play FLV videos stored on your memory stick too! Yeah!!! Go get it from imserba forums. For streaming YouTube videos smoothly you need at least 3G or WLAN to be working really fast.

Another cool app has been released by CPS(CellPhoneSoft) for P1i and the like(M600). Ever missed the D-Pad on your P1i? Padissimo fills that void!!! Download and install it from here. Launch it, then just long press 0 to hide the screen d-pad. Now use 2, 4, 6, 8 and 5 keys as d-pad anywhere in menu or web browser. To disable d-pad(especially recommended when you are on opera mini), just long press backspace key.
Enjoy!

Automatic Wallpaper Changer in Ubuntu

Remember "Webshots Desktop" on windows??? 'Twas a cool program which thrived in Windows 98 age. It used to change wallpapers automatically at fixed time intervals. But it used to sit in the system tray and eat up lots of valuable resources. Now, its the Ubuntu Era!!! Ubuntu is catching up in the Desktop OSes race. So, a boring evening and I thought of finding the best automatic wallpaper changer for GNOME. After lots of googling I found many options. Most of them were python scripts, adaptation of someone else's starving labour!!! Scripts aren't good for newbies and like to whew them away. I tried some of them, some worked and others tried mixing up the grey matter inside my mind. At last I found a nice one with intuitive GUI. Its called "wallpaper-tray". To install it, search for it in "Synaptic Package Manager" and install it. After installation open a terminal and type "wallpaper-tray" and hit that damned "Return" button!!! You can select a folder(or multiple ones) from which images will be displayed. Set the time in minutes for shuffling. To add it in Startup, so that you don't need to launch it manually everytime you boot, just open the "System" menu, there click "Sessions" in the "Preferences" submenu. Add it there. And you're done! And , its not a resource hog like the nasty Webshots on Windows.
Enjoy ;)