I have a Sony Ericsson P1i and this is tested on that phone. But most can be applied also to the other phones using Symbian UIQ 3 operating system. Phones which have UIQ 3 includes:

• Sony Ericsson P1, P1i, P1c, M600i, M600c, P990i, P990c, W950i, W950c, W960i, W960c, G700 and G900
• Motorola Z8, Z10

What I will bring up in this guide are

1. Short introduction to UIQ 3 and Symbian
2. Web browser and installing Opera Mini
3. How to manage email with UIQ 3
4. Google maps
5. iSkoot to use Skype
6. Worldmate
7. Swiss Manager
8. Adding new programs as icons on your start page
9. Download and installing new desktop themes
10. Installing GDesk
11. Rss reader
12. Top blogs and websites about UIQ 3
13. Sites for downloading games and applications
14. Bonus: Walkman 3.0 (for SE P1i only)

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For about a year now these oxygen bottles have been for sale in 7-eleven in Japan.

They come in several choices such as melon, coffea or like the in the photo below, “forest”.

Exactly what to do with these bottles including how, when and why to use them remains unknown. But a competing convenience store chain has answered by offering oxygen-rich water on bottle.

The new Ubuntu release 8.04 Hardy Heron will be released tomorrow.

If you can’t wait, upgrade to the release candidate, available now, and then upgrade to the final version again tomorrow. Note that its not recommendable to install the release candidate on working machines but what the heck, you only live once. It was released just a few days ago and so many bugs can not have been solved since then, could it?

To upgrade Hardy Heron release candidate:

Alt+F2
Enter following command: upgrade manager -d
Click on upgrade to 8.04 lts and follow the instructions.

Tomorrow after the release you can upgrade again doing following:
Alt+F2
Enter following command: upgrade manager -c
Click on upgrade to 8.04 lts and follow the instructions.

Shot in Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan. Where else?

300 Yen is about 3 USD.

When it starts to rain hard in a western country, people start to run. When it starts to rain in Japan, everybody by magic brings up an umbrella (only the few westerners start to run).

When I checked the dashboard recently I found that James Dimick has released a brand new WordPress plugin for changing the admin colors called Easy Admin Color Schemes.

After you install the plugin you can change admin color themes in the settings and you can make your own theme by changing CSS.

it seems to be a bug in the “Last modified” column

The plugin comes with a new theme which was not really adorable and it looks like this.

Anyway, if you have some basic skills in CSS and have enough time you can easily make your own theme. I believe it is a pretty nice job altogether by James Dimick and I hope the WordPress community soon will create and share some nice admin themes. You can share your creation by simply copy the CSS code on the settings page.

Btw, I bet you can make a really nice admin theme from the nice colors used on my blog theme “Smashing theme“. If someone want to try it, please send me a copy of the result to me as well df9517@gmail.com.

Edit: This morning I found a new admin theme plugin, Baltic Amber Admin Themes. It comes with several nice color themes and also option of small rearrangement of the dashboard.

Official distro sites

The main homepage for Ubuntu – the standard and most popular Ubuntu distro, using the gnome desktop environment.

The home for Kubuntu – a linux distro with the poular KDE desktop environment.

The homepage for Edubuntu – a linux distribution aimed at classroom and educational usage. For schools and universities.

Xubuntu uses the Xfce desktop environment. Older computers feel lively again, while newer ones will run faster than ever before! Recommended for old computers and various Xfce freaks.

Similar to the Ubuntu distribution but with only what they claim to be truly free software.

Study and interact

Ubuntu Forums

Meet the Ubuntu community, world famous for its helpfulness. Main place for searching, writing, interacting and finding a sollution for your Linux/Ubuntu problems. Probably the standard forum for all Debian based Linux distro’s.

Ubuntu brainstorm

The ultimate place to post your ideas and read and vote for other’s ideas. This is where you give your vote about what you want the Ubuntu dev’s to implement and fix for future Ubuntu distributions.

Ubuntu wiki pages

A place for the Ubuntu community to discuss ideas and store team-related information. You can find vital geek information such as the exact Hardy Heron release schedule.

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Not revolutionary at all and quite commonly used but hopefully a decent summery about MUST DO’s for convenience when browsing. Hopefully some points will be of interest for most people.

1) Use the Firefox web browser

I guess most of people finding this blog already use Firefox but if you don’t I recommend to change asap. The reasons are as follows

• Its available for Windows, Linux and Mac and now we are only waiting for the mobile version
• It simply feels faster and more reliable than most other browsers
• And most importantly, it has great extensions/plugins which I could not live without.

If you really like opera better its okay too but then it has to be the 9,5 beta version with synchronization built in. But it is difficult so far for example for all you Ubuntu users since it is difficult to install the beta version.

2) Arrange your top 20 bookmarks perfectly in the browsers toolbar

Since I started to do this web browsing is much faster. In Firefox you simply put your most commonly used bookmarks in the “toolbar folder” in bookmarks and instantly the appear in the toolbar. It is very important to keep the names as short as possible so that you can fit as many as 10-20. See below picture.

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A clean install of Ubuntu is not looking very slick at all. To be frank, it looks pretty boring.

But relax, if you follow this guide you will be able to get a ultra cool desktop like this one.

If you like that dark desktop, just keep reading, but if you rather like the below colourful desktop I have a guide for that as well right here.

Edit: Several steps in this guide will probably work very well also on other linux distributions as well but due to lack of own experience I won’t guarantee that.

We will do following steps:

1. Change background picture
2. Change GTK2 theme with window border and controls
3. Change icon set
4. Change Fonts
5. Configure the top bar
6. Install a cool Mac-like dock (AWN)
7. Install and get conky up and running to get the geeky text information about RAM usage, processes etc
8. Change login theme
9. Change the ugly orange color which is between the login screen and your fully loaded desktop

Edit: BOBCFC kindly pointed out that compiz must be up and running in order to get this transparent look. You can activate compiz on Ubuntu 7.10 or higher: right click in the desktop, click “change desktop background”, click the tab “visual effects” and click “normal” or higher. It requires that your computer is equipped with a 3d graphics card.

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