Ubunchu! Japanese Ubuntu Manga In English

I just found this by accident on Android market as a readable comic on the device, I think Hiroshi Seo is so creative this this manga is a peace of geeky art that will last and bring more Ubuntu fans to the community, just another reason for me to admire the Japanese, the manga is originally japanese but it's now translated into English and have 2 versions for each chapter "Right to left like the Japanese one" and the regular left to right style.

“Ubunchu!” is a Japanese manga series featuring Ubuntu Linux. Three school students in a system-admin club are getting into Ubuntu!

English version download page , The official website, Official original Japanese site

Social Bookmarking for Blogger "Blogspot" edition

Adding social bookmarking buttons like Digg, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo and others isn't as hard as some people think, it's as simple as a copy and past, why code it all over again while it's already coded for you "Nobody is going re-invent anything" tho you can customize it with your own icons.
It should be added to blogger features by default anyway, why do we have to do everything.

Text Links:

<br /> <!-- Start of social bookmarks --><br /> <b><i>Share this:</i><br /> |<a expr:href='"http://digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Digg It</a> |<br /> <a expr:href='"http://technorati.com/faves?add=" + data:post.url' target='_blank'>Add to Technorati</a> |<br /> <a expr:href='"http://del.icio.us/post?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Save on Del.icio.us</a> |<br /> <a expr:href='"http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Stumble It</a> |<br /> <a expr:href='"http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=" + data:post.url + "&title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank'>Share on Facebook</a> |<br /> </b><br /> <!-- End of social bookmarks --><br />

Icons Link:

• I personally likes and uses AddThis button on most of my blogger blogs.
• Big beautiful social bookmark buttons for blogger.
• Adding social boomark buttons to blogger - Google

When you pick one of the above just login to your blogger > Layout > Edit HTML and search for 

Protect your phone screen using food plastic wrap

We use gadgets everyday and we carry them everywhere and in the pocket, when you walk and move all day long with that shiny iPhone or whatever and specially if you put your keys and other stuff in the same pocket don't expect it to stay scratch free as the advertisements says, so you would just go buy that invisible screen shield with anti glare and anti dust bla bla bla, you really don't need that.



Here is a simple phone screen protector DIY trick I use to protect all my gadgets and phones screens specially touch screens.
You need:

1. thin plastic wrap (the one you use to wrap food).
2. Razors.
3. A soft cloth.
4. Your Gadget or phone.

To use food plastic wrap as a screen protector takes extreme caution as it involve cutting the plastic wrapper while it's stretched on your gadget.

• First you have to cut the plastic wrap just a little bigger then your whole gadget.
• Stretch it on top of your phone's screen and with a soft cloth stick it to the screen and move out any air bulbs.
• Now carefully cut the plastic wrap according to your screen size and make sure not to scratch your screen with the razors.

I used this trick since I was young, I used it on my Gameboy advance, old laptop, iPhone 2G and now on my HTC Hero, it's better then touching glass directly as it feels so smooth, it sticks with no glue or anything and totally transparent like itsn't there.

Here is another trick by using tape which I don't recommend for some devices because of the chemicals it have.

Android HERO 2.1 ROM For HTC Hero with Sense interface

Finally it's here only for HTC hero, please make sure to backup your phone before your install it, this is a HERO21 Community release v1.8 and not official.
HERO 2.1[ Download & Instruction]

Free Social Network PHP Scripts

If you think making a website like Facebook, MySpace and other social giants is hard you are wrong, they all started small and with the help of other open source platforms, if you know how to setup a php script and play with codes with some photoshop skills you can start your own small social network, and there is a lot of free open source social networking scripts written in php, but if you are planing to grow it big you need more then these, you need money + teamwork and dedicated servers.
Anyway here is a list of some of the best free scripts out there:

Wordpress Mu
My favorite but it's for blog communities, add buddypress plugin and themes to it and it becomes a nice place for friends to meet and blog.

PhpiZabi
Cool easy to setup but have little support, themes and plugins if you have some php skills this core will be enough for you to start off.


Elgg
Easy to use powerful script but I personal don't like it's navigation between pages.


Dolphin
Is the best in all free social networks it supports lot of plugins, video and music upload, video and audio chat and lot but it have ads, you need to pay to disable those or you need to get a nulled script which is illegal and can cause your site to get deleted by your host.


If you know other scripts please post a comment with a link to their site so we can grow this list.
Thanks and try the demos, try, plan before you start because seeing your social site empty feels so frustrating and it takes lots of time to populate these kind of sites.

Use your Windows 7 laptop as a Wi-Fi Hotspot "Access point" for other devices

And when I say use your laptop I don't mean Ad-hoc connections, your laptop or wireless card will actually act like an access point that's WPA encrypted and visible to all devices.

Windows 7 comes with a virtual ap technology that allow the wireless card to act as 2 in the same time, now you can make use of it by simply downloading and running a program called "Connectify" so no need to hacks playing around command prompt.\

Now I can connect my HTC Hero android phone to my laptop and get internet.

Download [Connectify]

How to connect an android phone to your ad-hoc wi-fi network

Cannot see ad-hoc wifi "Wireless" on android phone, do not worry.
EDIT: You can connect android phone without rooting your device using a program called Connectify that turns you PC or laptop into an access point that phones can see, but this program only works on Windows 7 not XP not Vista.
Read more about connecting your Android phone to a laptop or pc using Connectify.

I got my HTC Hero with android today and I am aboard, when I tried to connect it to the internet using an AD-HOC wireless network it didn't see it, but a program called Wifi analyzer can see the adhoc network "A Program I installed from android market", if you don't have windows 7 the only solution so far is rooting your device then:

First: I have yet to be able to connect to the ad-hoc network with WPA1&2-security. But I am pretty sure it should work, we just need to work out the correct configurations in the system files. Right now I am connected with WEP-security. That will keep the neighborhood noobs of my wifi-network, but it is not a satisfactory solution for security in the long run, as it _easily_ can be cracked by neighborhood parasites with freely available tools. In time, one should therefore really try to configure the connection with WPA2.

Here is the approach I used to allow connections to ad-hoc wifi networks with HTC Hero:

We need to edit two system files within Android; /system/etc/wifi/tiwlan.ini and /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf. I prefer doing this with Android’s debugging bridge (adb), to avoid messing with badly written terminal applications for the HTC Hero. Adb makes it possible to alter android system files from your command line on your computer. To use adb you need to install the drivers. Most Windows-users have these installed from when installing HTC Sync. I use Linux and had to install them by grabbing the Android SDK from their homepage (I can elaborate on this if necessary). Note that you will have to ‘root’ your device to make the procedure work (if necessary I can elaborate on this, as well. It basically means that you achieve full system read/write capabilites on your device). You might also need set the device to ‘USB debugging’-mode. You’ll find out soon enough 

Open a terminal window (in Windows, the command line) and type:

Code:

adb pull /system/etc/wifi/tiwlan.ini .

This will copy the file from the device to the computer. In Linux the file will be stored in the user’s home directory. I am not sure where it will be stored in Windows (search for it if you can’t find it). Open the file in a text editor. Locate the text “WiFiAdhoc = 0″ and change the 0 to 1. Then we will place two new lines right underneath it, to make it look like this:

Code:

WiFiAdhoc = 1
dot11DesiredSSID = InsertyourSSIDhere
dot11DesiredBSSType = 0

Replace InsertyourSSIDhere with the name/SSID of your planned ad-hoc network. We are finished with this file for now, so save and close the file.

In the terminal, type:

Code:

adb pull /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf .

Wpa_supplicant.conf is the tool we use to configure the network security. Open the file in the text editor. I have my file configured like this:

Code:

ctrl_interface=tiwlan0
update_config=1

eapol_version=2
ap_scan=2
fast_reauth=1

network={
    ssid="InsertyourSSIDhere"
    scan_ssid=0
    mode=1
    key_mgmt=NONE
    group=WEP104
    auth_alg=SHARED
    wep_key0="InsertyourownPASSKEYhere"
}

Once you are happy with your configuration, save and close the file.

Ok, now that we have configured the files, we will transfer them back to the HTC Hero by executing the following commands (each line is a new command):

Code:

adb shell
mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
exit
adb push tiwlan.ini /system/etc/wifi/tiwlan.ini
adb push wpa_supplicant.conf /data/misc/wifi/wpa_supplicant.conf
adb shell
mount -o ro,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
exit

Now you just have to create an ad-hoc wi-fi network with internet sharing on your laptop. There are numerous online guides on how to do this. The important thing is to match the network settings with the configuration in wpa_supplicant.conf. Note that ‘WEP104′ might be labelled  ‘WEP128′ in the network manager on your computer. Once you have created and activated your new ad-hoc wi-fi network, configured with internet sharing, turn on the wi-fi on your HTC Hero. You will see the ad-hoc network listed immediately, but wait a minute or two for the device to obtain the network address distributed from the laptop.

That’s pretty much it! You should now be online on your HTC Hero through your ad-hoc wi-fi network. The device should automatically be connecting to the network when wi-fi is enabled at both laptop and device.

Keep in mind: please consider this a temporary solution; we should really strive to configure wpa_supplicant.conf with WPA2-security. I’ll be back with another blog post if/when this is achieved.

Disclaimer: Remember, I am not responsible for your actions 

VIA [TIS]

But I wont try it any soon, I wont give up HTC hero original ROM just for ad-hoc networks, I will wait until I get a reasonable reason to root my device.
My recommendation "Buy an access point" for me I will wait until I am back from my vacation for now I will use a near public wifi.

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