The new Tata Photon+ EC1261 Modem is not included in default list of USB Broadband modems in Ubuntu 10.04 Network Manager. One of the Geeks found a working solution and would like to share with those in need. It is assumed that you know how to tweak things using command line.

The idea is to make the network Manager automatically detect the USB modem device, which is the new Tata Photon+ EC1261. When you plug-in your device sometimes it wouldn't appear in the list of Mobile Broadband Modems in your network manager and might leave you frustated. Now here is a working solution, where you need to install two .deb files and add your modem in a file which contains the modem list.

Since the inception of Android, Tablet PC's definition has changed from a handy PC to become a hybrid between a Smartphone and a Tablet PC. Mobile manufactures have been trying hard to come up with something out of box, and this summer the best of the Android based Tablets will be released. The first is Notion Ink's Adam and the other is Dell Streak. Both of them are based on Android and are far more advanced than any other tablets or Smartphones. Both the hybrids are more or less same with 1 GHz processor, 1080p HD video playback, WiFi, Bluetooth, SD card, USB, etc but Adam is bit unique and clearly stands out amongst the two android based Tablets.

Notifications are generally used to make user aware about an event that has occurred in your application. Once notified the notification may give an option to interact with itself or not. There are three types of notifications in Android.

• Toast Notifications
• Status Bar Notifications
• Dialog Notifications

In this post we will simulate various sensors such as accelerometer, compass, orientation and temperature sensor using SensorSimulator in Android SDK Emulator.

The OpenIntents SensorSimulator lets you simulate sensor data with the mouse in real time, where the behavior can be customized through various settings. It currently supports four sensors only but more are being developed by their team.

First you need to download the latest stable version of SensorSimulator. Go to their download page and then search for the latest sensorsimulator-x.x.x.zip file and download it. Right now the they have released the beta version and you can download it from here. 

In this tutorial we are going to learn how to install any given Android application in Android emulator using [dot]APK ".apk" files.

Follow the instructions with SCREENSHOTS of the Android emulator. All you need is just the Android SDK platform (software development kit, with emulator) and .apk files. There is no need to install Eclipse or Netbeans SDk, to work with APK files [wiki]. An .apk file extension denotes an Android Package (APK) file. This file format, a variant of the JAR format, is used for the distribution and installation of bundled components onto the Android mobile device platform.

With the launch of Facebook's New Graph API now you can add a variety of social plugins to your website with just one or two lines of HTML code. These social plugins by Facebook can really help you to promote your website or blog virally.

When user interacts with one of these social widgets on your website this activity gets listed in their Facebook News Feed or appears on their Facebook Wall. This is shared among friends of that particular user and the whole cycle just keeps on repeating itself eventually driving more traffic to your website. Plus these widgets give a more personalized experience to your users.

The new Facebook Social Plugins are listed below -

Hey folks, did you know, if your net connection speed is slow or you don't have time to download the latest version of Ubuntu 10.04  then Ubuntu team is more than pleased to deliver a CD loaded with Ubuntu, to your door steps. It might take a few weeks to reach your destination.

All you need to do is create an account on ubuntu website, fill in you details and wait for it. And yes "Patience is a virtue my friend".

If you have forgotten your Ubuntu 10.04 password, then here is a way to reset/recover it, provided you have the access to reboot the system. All you need to do is just reboot the system and then follow these steps.

At the GRUB promt press ESC. (just before the ubuntu splash screen, where we are asked to select different boot modes/OS)

In this post we will show you how to generate a PDF using PHP. We will be using FPDF, a PHP class, to generate the PDF. Generating PDFs using PHP is very easy. Let's start right away.

First of all you need to download the FPDF class. Its absolutely free . Go to their download page and download the latest version. Right now the latest version is 1.6 you can download it directly from here. Once you have downloaded the zip/tar file uncompress it. You will find a fpdf.php file and font folder inside it along with other files. Copy this fpdf.php file and font folder to your root directory where you will be writing the code. Now we are ready for the real thing! Check out the example given below -

You may need to use Javascript Redirect in following situations

• You have a new and updated content and you want to redirect your users there.
• You want to introduce some time delay to grab user's attention and then redirect him/her to a specific webpage.
• You have got yourself a new domain name. 

Well you can easily do so with javascript. If you want to perform a simple redirect i.e. upon landing on your webpage the user should be redirected to some other page use the code snippet given below -

Google's ANDROID mobile OS is going to be the next big thing and we all know that Motorolla is already into Android business with MOTOROID and other big players are waiting to dive in. In the coming future ANDROID is going to give tough competition to Apple's i-Phone .

If you are bored with the default Music player and media manager on ANDROID then perhaps it's time for a change. There are plenty of cool Media apps that looks and works better than default apps. Here is a list of five best MP3 and MEDIA apps recommended by bOtskOOl team for all you ANDROID lovers.

To run Counter Strike on Linux or Ubuntu has become much easier with improved PlayOnlinux windows games emulator for LInux. Install it and enjoy CS on Linux based systems. 

PlayOnLinux 3.6.7 is one of the softwares which allows you to play all those ultimate EXE games on Linux. Its a free software and allows an easy installation of Windows based games.

With Free Image and Interactive Chart API, Google has made life easy for us. Google chart API is used in Google analytics and is very beautiful. There are primarily two types of Chart API IMAGE and Interactive type. The first one is light and easy to use while second one is heavy yet interactive. Hover your mouse cursor and feel the difference. Isn't it amazing. In fact interactive Chart API looks pretty cool. Have a look at the HTML code below and enjoy. 

To count the number of words present inside a textbox or in a string variable is very easy and simple task. The trick is to use split() function of the Javascript. spilt() function takes delimiter as argument.

So we will be assuming that number of words is equal to the number of spaces present in the text and we will count the number of spaces present in the text using the split() function. Check out the examples given below.

 If your are not satisfied with the default theme of Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx", then  community themes from The Artwork team is a few commands away. These are completely out of box kind of themes to make your desktop look beautiful and appealing. Let's go straight to installation.

Open a Terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal) and paste these commands on command line:

This evening, I tried to checkout my Google Analytics account and was surprised or rather shocked to see the result. I was using Google Chrome and the moment I tried to log on to this url – www.google.com/analytics, to my astonishment I was redirected to sohu.com, a chinese search engine.

For a moment I thought I had mistyped the URL, guess what? It was www.google.com/analytics. I dont know what happened, it might be a chinese hacker’s work or an ordinary error but I’m sure it was kind of a hack. I say it because this has never happened before. We all trust Google but something like this is extraordinary or maybe it was a high level security breach.

I even have a proof for my part of the story, a screenshot. Its just an experience I would like to share with people who use Google Analytics or any other Google service.