Push an APK to and Android phone under Ubuntu 9.10
While there are plenty of websites and blog posts advising people on customizing Firefox for their spanking new netbooks, there is very little written about Opera.
Having recently moved to Opera (and found it to be as good, if not better than Firefox) I have been trying to customize it for my Eee 901.
Obviously, you could simply hide all of the toolbars, but what do you do when you need to use a function from that toolbar? After some reading I have found a few useful hints to hide the menus and yet provide you with access at the click of a button. I have mapped mine to F10 but you can replace this with your own choice.
To hide the main Menu and Address bar go to Tools > Preferences (or press CTRL+F12) and go to the Advanced tab. On the bottom left you will see the Shortcut options. Here you can edit or add your own shortcuts. Select Opera Standard (or Opera Standard Unix if your on Linux) and click Edit. This should open the Edit Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box. Drop down the 'Application' section, here you can click add and create a shortcut to hide the Menu bar and the Address bar.
I have added the following:
f10 - View address bar, 6 & Delay, 10000 & View address bar, 0
f10 ctrl - Enable menu bar | Disable menu bar
The first will display the Address bar then hide it after the specified time, the second will toggle the menu bar on of off. The Menu bar functions can still be accessed without showing the menu bar using ALT- and the appropriate letter as normal, its just that the menu does not actually appear.
Hopefully, these two adjustments will make viewing content with Opera on a netbook screen more bearable!
Links:
This site has detailed directions for hiding / toggling the various Opera toolbars:
Link - http://operawatch.com/news/2008/06/auto-hide-toolbars-in-opera.html
When running sudo apt-get update I often get an error similar to this:
GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 0CF459B8DF37ED8B
After a little Google-ing I think I have found the answer. Fire up your terminal and try the following command:
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv (ERRORKEY)
Replace ERROR KEY with the error code you are getting - it will be something like this - 632D16BB0C713DA6
Next type the following to add that key to your gpg keychain:
gpg --export --armor (ERRORKEY) | sudo apt-key add -
This resolved the errors for me, but I'm not sure it will work 100% of the time!
Click Get Adobe Air
cd to your download directory.
Make the file executable by running the following command in a terminal window:
chmod u+x Adobe*
then run the following command in a terminal window
sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
and follow the Adobe Air installer instructions!
Once installed you should be able to download and install Adobe Air apps such as TweetDeck or Twhirl!
I have recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my Macbook (1,1) and was interested to see if I could easily stream media to my new install from my DLNA media server that I use for my PS3 (a Western Digital MyBookWorld NAS). The good news is that this is very simple to do with a plug in for the already installed Totem media player.
The coherence plugin provides DLNA functionality. This can be installed by simply typing 'sudo apt-get install python-coherence' in a terminal window. However, here I experienced a small problem. Opening Totem and going to the plugin menu (under the edit menu) you can see the plugin. However, when trying to activate it you get a popup error message. Luckily this too has a simple solution. Again in the terminal, as root create this file '/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.Coherence.service' with this contents:
[D-BUS Service]
Name=org.Coherence
Exec=/usr/bin/coherence -o use_dbus:yes -o controlpoint:yes
Close and reopen Totem and the plugin can now be activated. Your DLNA server should now appear under you Totem menu playlist options, enjoy!
It is worth noteing that it does take some time to buffer the video before playback begins.
Links:
Coherence - Here
Guide - Here
Bug report with solution - Here