Monday, March 25, 2013

View Powerpoint on Android Devices



Method 1: Android apps

This might be the first solution most people would think of. Yes, like iOS system, Android has lots of powerful and practical apps. The most famous Android apps for PowerPoint are: Documents to Go, Quick Office, ThinkFree Office and Office Suite. Basically these apps could open Microsoft PowerPoint but some of the effects like animations, transitions may be removed.

Method 2: View PowerPoint online

Android Smartphones has extraordinary performances on web browsing. Besides, there are a few websites that allows you to upload PowerPoint for sharing with others. So we could view PowerPoint online with Android. These websites are like: authorSTREAM.com, Slideshare.net, Slideboom.com.

Method 3: View PowerPoint as pictures

Pictures are originally support by all the Smartphones. Android is no exception. So you can save the PowerPoint slides as pictures for viewing on Android.

Notice:
1. Create a separate folder for each PowerPoint file so that they won’t mix up.
2. Rename the slide according to numbers so that the output pictures will be in order.
For PowerPoint 2007:
  • 1. Click the round Office button >” Save As” >” Other Formats”.
  • 2. In the “Save As type” drop down menu, for example, choose JPG, and click “Save”. When PowerPoint asks whether you want to export all slides, select “Every Slide”.

For PowerPoint 2003 & 2010:
  • 1. Click “File” on the ribbon > “Save As”.
  • 2. In the “Save as type” menu, choose “GIF” for example, and click “Save”, When PowerPoint asks whether you want to export all slides, select “Every Slide”.

What's 1and1 Instant Domain


Basically, 1and1 Internet is a web hosting company. However, they also offer domain registration. The very basic service that they offer is the Instant Domain.
Features at a glance:
-DNS management
-Create subdomain names
-1 mailbox email address
-Email forwarding
-Domain forwarding/URL masking.
-Private domain registration.
-WebsiteBuilder
-SimpleSubmission
Important things you should know BEFORE YOU REGISTER.
DNS Management.
1and1's system will only allow you to edit the following DNS records:

-NS (nameserver)
-A record or IP address
-MX records
-CNAME

Any changes you made on the DNS will take 24 to 48 hours to propagate.


Subdomain name
You can create up to 5 subdomain per package. If you have several domain names under 1 Instant Domain package, you can only create up to 5 and not 5 per domain.

1&1 Webmail
You can create one mailbox type email address for your domain name per package with 2GB mailbox space. All 1and1 hosted emails are POP/IMAP enabled so you can configure it on any email client or device given the settings are correct.

Email Forwards
You can create a number of email forwards with 3 target email addresses per account. 1and1 did not specify how many you can create. So as long as you won't encounter any error, then you can create as many as you want.

URL Forwarding
1and1 provides 2 options, frame redirect and http redirect. Frame redirect is popularly known as url masking while http redirect is the standard forwarding.

Private Domain registration
1and1 allows you to hide your personal information from the WHOIS database for FREE.

1&1 WebsiteBuilder
A template-based application with 150 designs you can chose from. This will allow you to create a 5 paged website without a hosting account. You can try their demo here.

1&1 SimpleSubmission
It is an SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tool which will help you submit your website to  top search engines/directories and raise the sites rankings. It will resubmit your requests every after 30 days.

What i like about this application is that you don't have to insert banners to your site for this to work unlike other websites out there offering the same tool.


Posted by: Jane Jacquelie P. Vestil (geekgonegirly.com)


Friday, March 15, 2013

Hotmail/Live Mail setup as ExchangeActiveSync works w/stock Email App

Account settings and their level of support will vary across Android phones. While the steps to configure push email with synced contacts and calendar will vary, we have found these steps to work across a number of phones:

1. Select Email client on phone. 
2. Press menu and select Add account 
3. Enter full Hotmail address: e.g. (username@hotmail.com) or (username@outlook.com) 
4. Enter password 
5. Select Manual setup
6. Select Exchange when prompted for “What type of account is this?” 
7. Domain/Username, enter full Hotmail address: e.g. (username@hotmail.com).
Note: If the device only says “Domain”, it should be left blank. 
If the device says “Username”, then enter the full Hotmail address.
(On some devices, the Domain/Username may be pre-populated incorrectly and should be erased.)
8. Type in password. (may already be filled in) 
9. Server name. Enter: m.hotmail.com for server name.
(Note: this field may be pre-populated incorrectly depending on device, ie outlook.com). 
10. Make sure box Use secure connection (SSL) is checked. 
11. Select Next
12. Select desired account options for inbox checking frequency, number of days to synchronize, send email by default, notifications and contacts/calendar sync. Select Next. 
13. Depending on device you may be prompted for account color and account name (e.g. “Hotmail”) 
14. Select Next and your Hotmail is set-up and ready to go! 


How to set up Yahoo! Mail on your Android device

This article describe how to manually configure your Yahoo! Mail account on an Android device using android email app.


To set up your Yahoo! Mail on Android device manually:
  1. Select the Email icon on-deck.
  2. Enter your Yahoo! ID and password.
    • If an error occurs ("Setup could not finish, etc."), select Manual Setup.
  3. Select IMAP for type of account.
  4. Enter the following server setting information:
    • Incoming server: android.imap.mail.yahoo.com
    • Port #: 993
    • Security type: SSL (accepts all certificates)
    • Outgoing Server: android.smtp.mail.yahoo.com
    • Port #: 465
  5. Keep all other settings the same.
  6. Complete the remaining setup process. 
  7. You can use android email app to setup Gmail account as well
  8. For Gmail accounts just email address and passcode.


Wednesday, March 13, 2013

IP# to Seting Up a Cisco Router


Enter ip into web browser:

http://192.168.1.1

The Android Phablet Explosion




Take a smartphone. Take a tablet. Merge the two and what
do you have? A phablet. And it’s more than just an awful
name. For these phablets are on the increase and they are set to
take up a unique space of their own. In general, they are between
five and seven inches and it is the next logical step in the pattern of
ever increasing phone screen sizes.


It seems people want more from their phones in the physical
sense and it’s not surprising. Although the larger form is more
cumbersome to hold, it makes for a considerably more comfortable
gadget to view. It will ensure that we use our mobile devices in a
very different way. Instead of having two devices – a smartphone
and tablet – we may increasingly see ourselves with just the one.
And because holding a seven-inch screen to the ear is Trigger Happy
TV daft, it may even encourage a rise in video calling.

Experts suggest the market for phablets is set to more than
double to 60.4 million units globally and while that is still small fry
compared to the markets for the two distinguishable devices, they
are perfect for those that want the best of both worlds, enabling for
an all-in-one, content-rich solution. And the gap between phone and
tablet will shrink ever further – the Huawei Ascend Mate has a
screen measuring a faintly ludicrous 6.1 inches!

The coming monthswill see many other manufacturers dip their toes in the phablet
waters, and as the ultimate convergence device you’re going to see
a lot more of them on the street too.



Monday, March 11, 2013

How to play songs by just hovering on Linux

You could install gnome-sushi (Sushi is a quick previewer for file browsing in GNOME 3.2 and later). It's a previewer for images, audio files and documents.

 Just "sudo apt-get install gnome-sushi" or visit Software Center.

Friday, March 8, 2013

Install Broadcom-STA (wl) driver in LMDE


This HOW TO describes enabling support for WiFi devices based on Broadcom 4311/4312/4313/4321/4322/43224/43225 chipsets - using Broadcom's hybrid device driver - on Debian systems. This tutorial was prepared shortly after the release of LMDE 201009 and draws heavily on THIS Debian Wiki page.

Support of these chipsets is possible using a driver (wl) made available by the vendor, which includes a binary-only component targeted for the x86 or x86-64 architecture. All supported devices are listed at the end of this page. This is a "non-free" driver.

The BCM4313, BCM43224 and BCM43225 chipsets are alternatively supported by the brcm80211 driver.

And as of 9 Sept 2010 Broadcom announced the initial release of a fully-open Linux driver for it's latest generation of 11n chipsets. The driver, while still a work in progress... supports multiple current chips (BCM4313, BCM43224, BCM43225) as well as providing a framework for supporting additional chips in the future

NOTE: (2011/2/23) The following has been observed specifically for the BCM4313 chipset (Device ID 14E4:4727) but may apply to other chipsets which were updated from providing 802.11b/g to 802.11b/g/n support. The b/g version of BCM 4313 has been supported since version 5.60.48.36 of the driver, currently available in the Debian testing non-free repositories. Support for the b/g/n revision of BCM 4313 requires use of driver version 5.100.82.38 or newer, which is not currently available in the repositories. You will need to use installation method 3, see below.

NOTE 2: (2011/3/6) Version 5.100.82.38-1 of Broadcom-STA is now available in the LMDE repositories. Installation method 1 should work for newer wifi cards.


INSTALLATION:

1. The Mint developers of LMDE have enabled the "non-free" repositories by default. To confirm this navigate to

Menu > Administration > Software Sources.
Select the tab

Debian Testing Officially supported DFSG-compatible Software with Non-free Dependencies Non-DFSG-compatible Software should be present and selected, select it if not currently enabled.

If the "non-free" repository was not present, add it to to /etc/apt/sources.list Open the file with

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and add these lines at the end of the file

# Debian Testing (currently Wheezy)

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free

save and close.

Updated to reflect testing repositories instead of Squeeze repositories.

2. The remainder of the installation process will be performed as the root user in a terminal. Open a terminal, type su, press , type your password (there will be no response from the blinking cursor), press . The terminal prompt will change from something like username@computer-name ~ $ to computer-name username # Note: the change from $ to #. Also, to avoid confusion between a one (1) and lowercase L (l) commands can be copied from the tutorial and pasted into the terminal. The key combination to paste into the terminal is

3. Update the list of available packages. Install the module-assistant and wireless-tools packages:

apt-get update

apt-get install module-assistant wireless-tools


4. Build and install a broadcom-sta-modules-* package for your system, using Module-Assistant:

m-a a-i broadcom-sta

The "a-i" stands for "auto-install," meaning "download the module source, compile it for the current kernel and install it".

5. Blacklist the brcm80211 module, to prevent it conflicting for support of BCM4313, BCM43224 and BCM43225 devices:

echo blacklist brcm80211 >> /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf

6. Rebuild your initial ramdisk, to blacklist modules defined at /etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf within initramfs:

update-initramfs -u -k $(uname -r)

7. Unload conflicting modules:

modprobe -r b44 b43 b43legacy ssb brcm80211

8. Load the wl module:

modprobe wl

9. Verify your device has an available interface:

iwconfig

10. Configure your wireless interface as appropriate.

11. Exit the root terminal:
exit

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

How to Install Windows Software With Wine


To install Windows applications using Wine:
  1. Download the Windows application from any source (e.g. download.com). Download the .EXE (executable).
  2. Place it in a convenient directory (e.g. the desktop, /home/user/downloads or any home folder).
  3. Open the terminal, and cd into the directory where the .EXE is located.
  4. Type wine the-name-of-the-application.extension (e.g. wine realplayer_installer.exe).
This will start the .EXE using Wine. If it is an installer, it should then run as it would in Windows. If the application asks for a directory to install the application to, select put it under C:\Program Files.


Monday, March 4, 2013

Keyboard Shortcuts for Elementary OS Luna


Keyboard Shortcuts in Luna Beta 1



⌘+SpaceApp Launcher
Alt+TabWindow Switcher
⇧+Alt+TabSwitch Windows Backwards
⌘+WWindow Overview
⌘+AWindow Overview (Across All Workspaces)
⌘+Left/RightSwitch Workspace
⌘+SWorkspace Overview
⌘+0New Workspace
⇧+⌘+Left/RightMove Window with Workspace
Ctrl+⌘+Left/RightSnap Window to Half of Workspace
Ctrl+⌘+Up/DownMaximize/Unmaximize Window
⌘+LLock Screen
⌘+Click+DragMove Window
⌘+Secondary (Right) Click+DragResize Window
 = Super (Windows or Command key),  = Shift

Source: Elementaryos.org

Avahi Error when Enabling Sharing in Miro

If you have just installed Miro, you may be wondering why trying to enable sharing  or on first start, Miro results in an error message about the Avahi mDNSResponder Compatibility Library.

In the Terminal


sudo apt-get install libavahi-compat-libdnssd1

After restarting, you can launch Miro and enable sharing, no more Install Avahi mDNSResponder Compatibility Library error message.