I hope you already know about Mozilla’s Firefox OS which is also known as B2G (Boot to Gecko) project. It’s an Operating System for smartphones & tablet computers. Here I’m not going to write about the OS. If you want to know more please take a look here. It’s all about HTML, CSS & JavaScript: First you need a HTML5 based user interface system for all mobile device platforms. For this you have to download jquery.mobile-1.2.0.zip. For documentation please refer to this link. Now extract the zip file and select three files from there as we gonna need them for … Read more »
Prelude: Mozilla India and Instruo’13- Annual Techno-Management Fest of Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur present Firefox OS: Renaissance of Mobile App Technology [FORMAT], a two-day grand event completely focusing on developing web applications for newly launched Firefox OS. The event took place in Kolkata, India 22nd & 23rd March 2013. Thing is, the event ended smoothly as I’m writing here sitting at home with delight. I arrived on time. Ovik warmly welcomed me wearing firefox apps day T. In the mean time Vineel was arrived. After that we (me, Vineel, Ovik, Subhashis, Gaurab) got into a car and started … Read more »
Prelude (source: mozilla wiki) The first Mozilla South Asia Inter-Community meet-up will take place in Kathmandu, Nepal, on 23-24 February 2013, with the coordination from Mozilla Nepal Regional community. It will bring together community leaders from the South Asia, including paid staff from across the SAARC countries, to meet for 3 days of presentations, breakout sessions and discussions to plan the implementation of the Mozilla South Asia community road map for 2013 and ensure that the regional community is fully aligned with greater engagement efforts across the Mozilla organization. The event successfully ended. It was an unforgettable event for me … Read more »
Update your system before you begin. 1. Install CompizConfig Settings Manager & Extra Plugins: sudo apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-fusion-plugins-extra compiz-fusion-plugins-main compiz-plugins 2. Click on the Start Menu>System Tools>Synaptic Package Manager, then install Compiz Fusion icon. 3. Menu>Preferences>Desktop Session Settings. In the window that opens click on “Advanced Options”, in the box that says Window Manager remove openbox-lxde and type compiz ccp, then click ok. 4. Preferences>CompizConfig Settings Manager, Under Effects, Chcek Animations & Window Decoration. Under Window management, Check atleast Move Window, Resize Window & Place Windows. 5. In terminal type: compiz –reload That’s it, enjoy compiz effects in … Read more »
Enabling MTP :: Media Transfer Protocol in GNU/Linux Device used: Xperia Sola 1. Connect your device 2. Use the “lsusb” command to list your devices in a terminal One of the lines should look like this (for sony): Bus 002 Device 012: ID 0fce:5169 Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB 3. Unplug your phone 4. Install “libusb-dev” using terminal sudo apt-get install libusb-dev 5. Download the latest libmtp tar.gz from here: (mtp download) http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmtp/files/libmtp/ 6. cd into the same directory where you downloaded the new libmtp*.tar.gz and extract the tar package: tar xvf libmtp-1.1.1.tar.gz 7. cd into the libmtp x.x.x directory … Read more »
Fedora 18 has been released. This is one of the most anticipated fedora versions yet. It delayed two months. It’s here anyway, take a look at full feature lists of F18. Well, I have faced a small problem while installing missing video codecs & VLC media player in my F-18 64 bit system. The terminal returned exactly this message: GPG key retrieval failed: [Errno 14] Could not open/read file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-15-x86_64 The Solution: Considering that you already have RPM fusion repositories enabled. As you can see that the problem is for 64 bit architectures. I’m not sure about 32 bit. Download two … Read more »
