Friday, February 10, 2012

CD/DVD drive emulator for Ubuntu

CDemu is free open source CD/DVD drive emulator Linux

  • You can Mount 2 CD /DVD drives at once. 
  •  CDemu  supports following formats:-
  1. .nrg format,
  2. .cdi format,
  3. .ccd/.sub/.img,
  4. .cue/.bin format,
  5. .iso format,
  6. .toc format,
  7. .b6t format,
  8. .mds format,
  9. .cif format,
  10. .c2d format,
  11. .daa format.
  12. .toc format.
 You cant install CDemu in Ubuntu 11.10 by adding it to repository by using this command
 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cdemu/ppa
 Then use following commands to install CDemu for Linux
sudo apt-get upgrade 
sudo apt-get install cdemu-client&&cdemu-daemon&&gcdemu&&image-analyzer&&libmirage&&gnome-shell-ext-icon-manager 

Tutorials:How To Setup ownCloud 3 on your server


ownCloud 3 is open source cloud computing software. owncloud helps you to easily access your file from anywhere in the world . You can edit the file on the web browser or you edit it on your PC using standard software and your changes will be saved on server also . If you have good collection of music like me and don't have so much space on your smartphone or tablet , you can stream music from owncloud. You can also backup your contact on ownCloud 3 and forget the worry about lossing them ever...
Setting up owncloud 3 is very easy
Pre-needed :-
1.You need Web hosting with sql support
2.Some basic sql knowledge
Steps to owncloud:-
1.Download the ownCloud 3 software from http://owncloud.org/
2.Extract owncloud-3.0.0.tar.bz2 to your directory
3.Upload all files to your server public__html

4.Via FTP client, create a directory data , set permissions to 750 and those of config/ to 777
5.Go to your website URL and follow the pictures to install it correctly 

6.That it now you can access your file from anywhere in the world
 7.To access webdav from ubuntu 11.10 follow the pic 
 

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

[How To] Download latest android sdk via Download Accelerator

Google recently announced Android SDK 4.0.3 code-name :  Ice Cream Sandwich which provides great handful tols to developer . But sometimes downloading with standard SDK manager is hectic and slow process , you can increase the speed of this process with Download accelerator :)

Things you need :-


  • A good download accelerator
  • Android sdk manager for linux /windows 
Steps:


  1. Unzip the SDK manager in your document folder or folder of your choice
  2. Create a Temp folder in  SDK  folder
  3. Use the https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/  with name of the file you want .
    for eg : I wanted to download android sdk 4.03 and goggle apis so i used following links 


  • https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/android-15_r01.zip  
  • https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/google_apis-15_r01.zip


To know the name of the file you want go to following url :- https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/repository-5.xml
To get google add-ons go to following url :- https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/repository/addons_list-1.xml


   4. Move the file you downloaded to temp folder and run sdk and select the package that you downloaded
  


This should install your latest SDK on your PC . 
If you have any difficulty in this you comment here and get your questioned answered.