Multisync

This program should be a solution to synchronize calendar (events), contacts, tasks from Windows Mobile Device to Linux or vice versa.





Unfortunately it fails to function for my device.
I have tried, failed, and googling again; then find that my Windows Mobile 6 device is currently not work with multisync in ubuntu.
Considering that the progress of developing software in open source model is fast, I believe someday I can use this kind of software to synchronize windows mobile and ubuntu/linux. But, for now, I give up.

Read this web page for detail information:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PortableDevices/WindowsMobile

I copied and pasted the important information from that web page here:

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Users of Windows Mobile 5, Windows Mobile 2003 and PocketPC can sync email, contacts, calender appointments with Evolution.

Ubuntu does not yet work with Windows Mobile 6 currently.
Until that support comes, there are two possible solutions:
* Using Windows Mobile 6's USB storage mode
* Using a storage device that your computer can also read, such an an SD card

The program WM5torage (freely available) can be installed on your WM6 device, and upon connection with a computer your memory card is then mounted as a removable drive. It is also possible to sync your WM6 calendar with an online calendar system, such as google calendar. The program OggSync does this for free, if you only have one category in your calendar. For syncing of more categories, you will have to buy the Pro version.

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So I used another solution meant by the article, use WM5torage.
This program should be installed on your Windows Mobile device, and only support Windows Mobile 5 or later. Download from here: http://www.modaco.com/content/smartphone-software-freeware-download-discussion/238545/wm5torage

After downloading and installing WM5torage, I can access the Windows Mobile 6 device's memory card as another mass storage device (flashdisk, mmc card, etc.)
Need to run the program and activate it first.

As you see in the picture below, my Windows Mobile device's memory card can be read. Because WM5torage simply add the functionality of my Windows Mobile device as a storage device, it also can be used by any operating system. Not just for Ubuntu or Linux.



When finish using the storage, you can unmount, and then deactivate from your windows mobile device.

Bluetooth on Ubuntu

Browse Bluetooth Devices
(depend on the bluetooth device, this feature may work successfully, partial, or does not work at all)



I select to browse my Sony Ericsson K850i mobile phone.



I can browse the contents of my device whether stored in phone memory or memory card.



I copied a file from the memory card to my Ubuntu's Desktop. The process takes considerable time for a big file because limitation speed for bluetooth.



The bluetooth device can be mount or unmount just like we used another external storage devices. We should unmount before disconnect the device.



Send Files
I did paring from my O2 Atom Life (PDA Phone) to my laptop. After paring successfully, I can send file to my PDA.











Notes
I do not know why my O2 Atom Life PDA is recognized as a computer, and try to browse the device will report that the computer is down. As alternative, I can send the file by using bluetooth from PDA. Then I will receive the file sent to my computer on the Desktop.

3D Desktop Effects on Ubuntu

Here are the examples of 3D Desktop Effects with the default shortcut keys on Ubuntu. I do not cover all, too many. At least I give the snapshots of the interesting effects.

3D Cube Desktop



[Alt] [Tab] - Application Switcher



[Windows] [Tab] - Shift Switcher



[Windows] [Tab] - Ring Switcher



[Windows] [E] - Expo



Water Effect



Fire Effect (Paint Fire on the Screen)



Woobly Windows



Fold



Window Previews

VirtualBox Virtualization Platform supported by Sun

Sun xVM VirtualBox supported many operating system as host
Windows Hosts
* Windows XP, all service packs (32-bit)
* Windows Server 2003 (32-bit)
* Windows Server 2008
* Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit)
Apple Mac OS X Hosts
* Intel hardware only, all versions of Mac OS X supported
Linux Hosts
* 32-bit and 64-bit
* Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 ("sarge") and 4.0 ("etch")
* Fedora Core 4 to 8
* Gentoo Linux
* Redhat Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and 5
* SUSE Linux 9 and 10, openSUSE 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3
* Ubuntu 5.10, 6.06, 6.10, 7.04, 7.10 ("Gutsy Gibbon"), 8.04 ("Hardy Heron")
* Mandriva 2007.1 and 2008.0
Solaris OS Hosts
* 32-bit and 64-bit
* OpenSolaris ("Nevada" build 81 and higher)
* Solaris 10 OS (u5 and higher)

Steps to install using apt-get:
# apt-get install virtualbox
will give VirtualBox-ose (open source edition)

I want to have the latest version from Sun, so that I downloaded manually from:
http://www.sun.com/software/products/virtualbox/get.jsp

Steps to install without apt-get
# dpkg -i virtualbox_1.6.4-33808_Ubuntu_hardy_amd64.deb
Note: I used Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit, so the package is virtualbox_x.x.x.xxx_amd64.deb

Users that can manage the VirtualBox should be a member of vboxusers group.
Steps:
# usermod -G adm,dialout,cdrom,floppy,audio,dip,video,plugdev,fuse,lpadmin,admin,vboxusers dani3lr
Note: adm,dialout,cdrom,floppy,audio,dip,video,plugdev,fuse,lpadmin,admin are default groups from my user account after Ubuntu setup. I added vboxusers.

Need logoff and login again, then verify:
$ groups
dani3lr adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev fuse lpadmin admin vboxusers

Run: VirtualBox
or use the shortcut created by setup in Applications, System Tools, Sun xVM VirtualBox.



VirtualBox support operating system as guest









Screenshot after I create some guest operating systems:




Screenshoots Guest Operating Systems
Ubuntu Desktop 32-bit





CentOS 5.2 32-bit





Fedora 9 32-bit





Windows Server 2008

Internet Explorer 6 Running on My Ubuntu

Sometimes I need to access certain web sites that need Internet Explorer to get the content formatted properly. Especially Microsoft web sites.
So I used the IEs4Linux.
You can download from: http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
Then extract the compressed tar.gz file.

Steps:
$ wget http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf ies4linux-latest.tar.gz
$ cd ies4linux-*
$ ./ies4linux





The result after setup completed.



I can run a web site that run ActiveX control to download contents like MCT Web Site.



Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA) also run as if running in Windows.

Stardict, a free dictionary for Linux

Stardict is still the best free dictionary in the Internet for running in Linux.
At least that's my opinion.
Actually this is the second article about the same program, but the other article I posted for other Linux Distro, Fedora. Now I run this software in Ubuntu, and try to give better snapshots.



We can use more that one dictionary database, for example: Merrian Webster Dictionary, Longman Dictionary, etc. You can download the dictionary files from http://stardict.sourceforge.net/Dictionaries_dictd-www.dict.org.php
The dictionary files should go here: /usr/share/stardict/dic

steps:
# cd /usr/share/stardict/dic
# tar -xjvf /data/packages/source/dict/stardict-longman-2.4.2.tar.bz2
# tar -xjvf /data/packages/source/dict/stardict-merrianwebster-2.4.2.tar.bz2

I have rearranged the order for dictionary to be used like this:



Other feature that you may interested is to let you learn the pronunciation.



You can enable scanning words







This is the result when I blocked a word when scanning is activated.



give me spelling suggestion like this