This release revision focuses on bug fixes. Thanks to the contributors and users who sent the bug reports.

Check/Read the readme file for more details and bug fixes.

Download MMA theme v-1.2.

Note: Upgrade from 1.1 and 1.0 is highly recommended. Download the zip file above, extract it and upload it to the themes directory of your blog. If you are using previous versions, it will ask for overwrite, just click yes to overwrite and every thing will be fine.

Version 1.1 details are here.

Good luck!

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After having successful implementation of 1.0 on my own blog(this blog), i spare some time to enhance this theme and give it more professional look. So here i am with version 1.1, which is followed from 1.0, there are not major changes but slightly improvements over version 1.0. This blog is the live demo, if any one wondering where to find the live demo. The main change in 1.1 is CSS3 functionality.

Here is the screen shot for version 1.0, and if you want to try 1.0, download it from here.

And here is the screen shot of version 1.1 with some minor improvements in design.

Download version 1.1 from anl4u.com download zone.

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Note: Upgrade from 1.0 to 1.1 in easy steps.

If you want to upgrade from version 1.0 to 1.1. Download version 1.1, extract it and upload the following files to your blog folder(to the respective directives):

• images/header-bg.png
• style.css
• If you have wp-pagenavi plugin installed, upload the file pagenavi-css.css from plugins/wp-pagenavi(included in 1.1) folder to your blog plugin(wp-pagenavi) folder.

And that’s it, upgrading is done.

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Enjoy and happy blogging.

UPDATE: Newer version is available, please read this post.

Arif

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Firefox 4 is in beta stage at the moment. Beta 2 is available for use. There are some good new features available and more to come, i hope you guys already heard about it if not read this page. Here i am going to guide you how to install it in openSUSE 11.3. openSUSE has its own repo for it, which updates from time to time upon new packages. So lets start with YaST.

1- Open YaST and click on software repositories, add the following repo.

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla:/beta/openSUSE_11.3

Give it a name(any name) and save it. Close software repositories.

2- Now open software management and search for firefox and select firefox4 for installation, and there you go.

Note: If you have Firefox 3.6.x installed, please close it and then open Firefox 4 to start browsing.

Have fun!

Arif

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Hi all,

As i said before that i will allow others to use my current blog theme, which i developed. So here we are with complete theme.

Some of the features are:

1. Widget ready
2. jQuery validation for comment form
3. WP-ratings and WP-polls integration is available
4. Related Posts feature added
5. RSS feed for comments and posts
6. Custom header image (change it to your taste)
7. Custom footer
8. Tags showing in posts
9. Gravatar included for comments
10. Threaded comments support included
11. For more features, please read the readme file.

Checkout the screen shots at MMA Gallery.

Live Demo: anl4u.com

Download from anl4u.com download zone.

Note: Please read the readme file for more details and installation.

Got any issues, have  ideas to improve?, contact me by comment form.

Enjoy and have fun with it.

UPDATE: Newer version is available, please read this post. It is recommended to use the latest version for full functionality.

Arif

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Salam/hi all,

Ok, this was not that easy stuff if you don’t know how to do it and where to find it. I mean 1st fonts, then installation or copying to the right directories. Websites like bbcurdu.com and urdupoint.com are common Urdu news sites which i am sure most of the Urdu reading surfers will surf for the latest news and articles. These two websites use different fonts rendering system for browsers like Firefox and Chrome. I am not using any Urdu keyboard here and not using translation for the whole system, its just how to read Urdu websites in Linux, this tutorial is just for installing fonts system wide for browsers in Linux not a language pack etc. I will focus on two distros at the moment, Ubuntu and openSUSE. Ubuntu 9.04,9.10 and openSUSE 11.2(KDE4.4.3) will be used for the installation with Firefox 3.6.3, Firefox 3.0.19, Chrome 6.0.400.0. If you are on 10.04(Ubuntu), you can install it there also by the mentioned way below.

Before going further to discuss the installation, we need to download these fonts:

1- NafeesWeb.ttf (For urdupoint.com etc)
Go to this web page, http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/Fonts/nafeesWebNaskh.html
Download the file with this title ‘Font with MS VOLT project source‘. Unzip it in the directory where it is downloaded. Until here we are done with this font.

2- asunaskh.ttf (For bbcurdu.com etc)
Download directly from this site, http://www.urdulife.com/font/asunaskh.ttf

So lets start from openSUSE, the easy one which will make your life easier.
1- Open ‘Personal Settings(Configure desktop)‘ and click on ‘Font Installer‘
2- Click on ‘Add‘ button and navigate to the fonts where you downloaded it.
3- It will ask for three options like: Personal, System, Cancel. Which means you want to install it just for this user or system wide for all. I went for System to install it system wide for other users too. It will ask for the root password upon installation.
4- Repeat step 2 and 3 for the 2nd font.
5- Restart your browser and there you go.

Easy i would say!

Now its turn for Ubuntu. Here also have two types of installation/copying, one is system wide and another is user specific.
Method-1 (User specific):
1- You are not much familiar with this terminal thing?, so lets do it the easy way then. Go to your home directory like my case /home/mian. You can use nautilus for this. Click on Places -> Computer and then navigate to your home directory.
2- Now click on ‘View‘ in the menu and check ‘Show hidden files‘. Alternatively you can use Ctrl+h, just press and hold Ctrl and press h.
3- Search for folder .fonts, is it there?, if yes then no worries. Ohh..is not there?.. don’t worry, lets create it, right click and create a directory with name without quotes ‘.fonts‘. (Note the point before fonts, don’t be confused. It’s dot with fonts, so that it becomes .fonts).
4- Now copy the fonts from the downloaded directory and paste it in .fonts directory.
5- Now a little bit terminal thing, but don’t worry its not rocket science. Just open terminal and type this.

sudo fc-cache -vf

If ask for the password, enter your password.
6- You are done, restart the browsers and check the websites.

Method-2 (System wide):
1- In this case, we will use terminal, but will be just two commands to get you these fonts working. Open terminal and type this:

gksudo nautilus

Enter your password to proceed.
2- Now go to this directory, /usr/share/fonts/truetype and create a folder named ‘urdu‘ without quotes, and paste fonts here from the downloaded directory. Close this window now.
3- Now in the terminal, run this command:

sudo fc-cache -vf

4- Done, restart Firefox or Chrome or other browser and navigate to your favorite Urdu site.

I haven’t tested this on new release of Ubuntu 10.04. I have to give it a try later.

Here are the two working examples in the form of snapshots for urdupoint and bbcurdu after font installation:

urdupoint.com

bbcurdu.com

So now your fonts are installed and working. Enjoy reading and surfing these sites.
Good luck with it!

Arif

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Hi all,

Firefox 4 will be released in the upcoming winter with a lot of promises, as Mike Belzner, vice president of engineering at Firefox added, ‘Performance, power and personalization’. Chrome?, yeh its a fact chrome is fast, light weight and elegant. Many of us are using chrome, but the fact is that that many are not near to Firefox many. Firefox have a lot of user base than chrome. Both are ideal browsers and very good one to use. I personally use Firefox instead of Chrome, yup i use Chrome for some websites like surfing Google and news sites etc.  So that mean, i am using both at the same time. Chrome is from openSUSE contrib repo with weekly build and updates. Currently using 6.0.397.0 (0) from build repo and have facing some crashes with flash (annoying and disaster flash), but at the same time i also have little bit crashes with Firefox 3.6.3. but its rare and not caused by flash.

Here are some more reading and some screen shots of Firefox 4 from zdnet.com.

What you think about it?

Happy reading.

Arif

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Hi all,
Yesterday i recieve an email from Monty(MySQL AB) as part of the “Save MySQL”.
A lot of users who are using MySQL wrote letter to EC to stop the deal between Sun and Oracle.

The deal is not finalized yet, so MySQL need us now at this crucial stage.

I already filled and sent this petition to Monty. Would also appreciate if some one using MySQL want to part of this mission and help MySQL by filling and sending it to Monty.

Here is the link.

http://helpmysql.org/en/petition

Here is detailed link, where Monty explain everything about the deal and its results. This is an interesting read.

http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-keep-internet-free.html

And this make the things more interesting:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10412734-16.html

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091208104422384

If  you have some free time, read the above articles and i am sure they are enough to decide. Choice is YOURS.

Arif

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Hi all,

Google Chrome beta is already released for Linux, but in this post i am not going to explain something about Google Chrome. Its about Chromium. But if you want to download and install Chrome beta version, download from here.

http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux

Note: I think, there will be no flash plugin installed, one need to install it manually and copy it to browsers plugin directory.

Now lets jump to Chromium, what is chromium, if there is already Chrome?

So to elaborate a bit, Google Chrome is the same software offered by Google, while Chromium is offered by open source community, they release fixes and patches on daily basis. And further more there is no need to install flash plugin, installing it from the community repos will automatically install every thing for you. Currently i am using Chromium 4.0.283, and i love it. Its fast, simple and easy to use.

NOTE: There is no big difference between Google Chrome and Chromium.

To install it in Ubuntu:

1- Add this repo(URL) to software sources.

Software source -> Third party software(Tab) -> click add

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/chromium-daily/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Ubuntu will prompt for reload, just cancel it, because we need to add OpenPGP key.

2- Open terminal and run this command:

sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xfbef0d696de1c72ba5a835fe5a9bf3bb4e5e17b5

3- Now update the system repos with:

sudo apt-get update

4- Now lets install chromium:

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

And you are done, you can find Chromium in Applications -> Internet -> Chromium Web browser

To install in openSUSE:

1- Open YaST, goto software repositories, click add button, choose community repositories from the choices, and click next. Now select Contrib repo and click OK.

2- Now open software management from YaST, and search for ‘chromium’ without quotes and mark it for installation, click Accept button and you are done.

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More easy than Ubuntu in openSUSE.

Good luck with it and enjoy.

Arif

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