Searchr.us | Search Multiple Search Engines

Searchr.us | Search Multiple Search Engines

A recently came across this new search engine called "www.searchr.us" .I'm sure it's going to be a hit if it gets enough publicity.The basic idea behind this search engine is good.You'll know shortly why the idea is good.Before that lets have a look what this is about.

What is Searchr.us ?

Searchr.us is a site that sends your request to major search engines and the results are returned from various Search Engines in Different frames so that you can compare the search results with all the Search Engines and all of this at ONCE!

If you don't get the right results which you want to get from any of your favourite search engine then why not search all at the same time ? That's exactly what my site does,you can see the results from all the search engines.

If your not clear with what I'm telling you,then just go to this sample link

http://www.searchr.us/web-search.phtml?search=Sample+Search

Advantages:

1.You can search all the search engines at once.
2.You can also do image,video,file,torrents and MP3 Download Search apart from web search
3.Comparing the results becomes easier.
4.If your not able to get correct and precise results from one search engine check out the results from other search engines.
5.You can make it your "Default Search Engine".
6.You can also set "Searchr.us" as your homepage for quick surfing.
7.Our servers are really fast and downtime is minimal.

Here is a small demo:

What you can do !

All you have to do is spread the word to your friends,colleagues or by blogging.You can also use facebook or email it to your pals ! I'm hoping to see good results !

Contact : contact@searchr.us

GuessIt! - A Simple Game For Android

GuessIt! is a dead simple number guessing game. Just guess the number and enter it. Keep guessing according to the hints and win!

It might not be a great game, but this is my first android app. So don't expect much from a newbie.

The app is now version 1.1 and I have changed some UI components for better look. But I need your feedback to improve the interface. The interface resembles iPhone Apps though.

You can head over to the following thread on XDA forum to download the game.
XDA-Developers Forum

Set Up Remote FTP Connections To Your Android

Set Up Remote FTP Connections To Your Android

Did you know that you could manage the files in your Android phone from your PC through WiFi or 3G connection without cable or bluetooth? If not, then read on to know how to use remote FTP connections to your phone from anywhere.

First install FTPServer from Android Market. After installation, the icon will appear in your launcher.

On first launch, it will ask for username, password, port etc. You can choose them according to your choice.

Then check the checkboxes saying "Accept Connections". Then tap "Save and Restart Service".

Now you'll have a blank window with the IP Address of the server on the top. We'll need the IP Address, so note it down.

Congrats, you have successfully configured your phone. Now lets head over to the PC. We shall see how to configure the connection on Linux, and then Windows.

CONFIGURE LINUX

We have used elementaryOS here, but it should be similar for any distro running gnome.

Find "Places" in menu and select "Connect to Server".

Now, when asked for the details, enter the IP Address that you noted down and the port and username those you had configured in the phone. Now click "Connect". If you wanna use it later, remember to check "Add Bookmark".

If everything goes right, now you can browse through your files in the phone.

CONFIGURE WINDOWS

These instructions are for Windows 7. The steps should be similar for Vista.

First open "My Computer". Right click anywhere to bring the context menu and select "Add network location".

Now you'll be guided through the setup wizard. Select "Choose a custom network location". Then click "Next".

Now enter the address like this - ftp://IP:port (Replace "IP" and "port" with their respective values)

Now you have to enter the username. Be sure to uncheck "Login anonimously". Then proceed to next step.

Now give a name to the network location and finish the wizard.

When you'll connect to the network, it will ask for your password. After entering the password, click log on to access your phone.

Now you can manage your phone from windows explore remotely:)

When connected, your phone will be like this. You can go to the settings or stop the FTP Service by pressing the menu button and selecting appropriate option.

Scan the QR Code below from your device to install FTPServer.

We have tested this on our Xperia X10 Mini running gingerbread. Don't forget to test and post the results in comments:

Sony Opens New Site For Unlocking Bootloaders

Finally, Sony has kept its promise. Sony recently opened a website regarding unlocking of the bootloaders of its newer 2011 Xperia™ phones range of phones.

The officially supported models are Xperia™ arc, Xperia™ neo, Xperia™ pro and Xperia™ PLAY. Sony has clearly mentioned the consequences of unlocking the bootloader and that you'll potentially void your warranty.

Sadly, but as expected, older Xperia™ phones such as Xperia™ X10, Xperia™ X10 Mini etc. cannot be unlocked. Recently the bootloader of Xperia™ X10 has been unlocked unofficially. So no big challenge here.

You can visit the website at unlockbootloader.sonyericsson.com.

Fedora Utils 1.0 Beta

Fedora Utils is a small script designed for Fedora. It uses zenity for its GUI.

Fedora Utils lets you install codecs and softwares as well as tweak your Fedora system with just few clicks. Also, you can just select the tasks and let Fedora Utils do those one by one.

Features:

• Add Additional Repos, e.g.- RPMFusion, Google, Chromium, VirtualBox, Skype etc.
• Install Multimedia Codecs, DVD Playback, Flash Plugin, Sun Java, Microsoft Truetype Fonts, additional Softwares like LibreOffice, Google Earth, GTalk Plugin, Wine with Gecko, Adobe Air etc
• Change system settings such as set Yum to keep package cache, enable autologin, set SELinux in permissive mode, fix Anaconda Runtime causing Revisor not to start
• Optimize Boot Process by turning off unnecessary daemons
• Customize Terminal by adding colours and Fortune messages
• View System Information

And much more...

This script is similar to Fedora Plus and easyLife. But there are many differences. Unlike Fedora Plus, you can select many items and Fedora Utils will do one by one, which was the main reason Fedora Plus didn't suited me as I have to wait till one operation completed to do another one.

Fedora Utils can also add your username to sudoers file, but only when it detects that you executed it as normal user.

Project Page: fedorautils.sf.net

Fedora Utils 1.0 Beta

Fedora Utils is a small script designed for Fedora. It uses zenity for its GUI.

Fedora Utils lets you install codecs and softwares as well as tweak your Fedora system with just few clicks. Also, you can just select the tasks and let Fedora Utils do those one by one.

Features:

• Add Additional Repos, e.g.- RPMFusion, Google, Chromium, VirtualBox, Skype etc.
• Install Multimedia Codecs, DVD Playback, Flash Plugin, Sun Java, Microsoft Truetype Fonts, additional Softwares like LibreOffice, Google Earth, GTalk Plugin, Wine with Gecko, Adobe Air etc
• Change system settings such as set Yum to keep package cache, enable autologin, set SELinux in permissive mode, fix Anaconda Runtime causing Revisor not to start
• Optimize Boot Process by turning off unnecessary daemons
• Customize Terminal by adding colours and Fortune messages
• View System Information

And much more...

This script is similar to Fedora Plus and easyLife. But there are many differences. Unlike Fedora Plus, you can select many items and Fedora Utils will do one by one, which was the main reason Fedora Plus didn't suited me as I have to wait till one operation completed to do another one.

Fedora Utils can also add your username to sudoers file, but only when it detects that you executed it as normal user.

Project Page: fedorautils.sf.net

Fedora Utils 1.0 Release Candidate

Today, the latest RC of Fedora Utils 1.0 has been released. The RC has some noticeable new features from the beta including minor bug fixes and code cleanups.

As I stated earlier, Fedora Utils lets you install codecs and softwares as well as tweak your Fedora system with just few clicks. Also, you can just select the tasks and let Fedora Utils do those one by one.

After downloading, navigate to the download directory and execute the script in terminal as root.

sudo ./fedorautils-*

Changes from first beta,

• The downloads are saved in the users Desktop in a folder "Downloads"
• It can use the contents of the Downloads folder instead of downloading the same files again. You can put your downloaded files to the Downloads folder before the script is executed
• Now you can select from which daemons to turn off right from the GUI
• More softwares added and Java updated to 1.6.0 update 24, LibreOffice updated to 3.3.1
• Optimized for smarter handling of installations

Full changelog is at the Project Page: fedorautils.sf.net

Since it is opensource, you are welcome to contribute to the project.

Download Linux Mint 10 KDE Released

Linux Mint 10 jula KDE Released today. It includes many new features and nice software selection.

Faetures include,

• This edition comes with the latest and recently released KDE 4.6!
• The Updated Software Manager gives you a nicer browsing experience, with a better categorization of software and the use of application icons.
• In the Upload Manager, if services are defined, the system tray icon is now launched automatically at startup by Linux Mint. The "File Uploader" was also merged with the "Upload Manager". The upload dialogs were improved and now look similar to the Firefox download dialogs. They measure the upload speed and calculate an ETA.
• Adobe Flash: Linux Mint comes with the latest Adobe Flash "Square", running in full 32-bit or 64-bit (depending on your edition of Linux Mint) native mode. This plugin is faster than its predecessor, especially in full-screen.
• Oracle Virtualbox: A new metapackage called "virtualbox-nonfree" was introduced. This package points to the non-open-source version of Virtualbox and provides USB support.
• Signed repositories: No more warning is given for the usage of signed repositories. Using unsigned repositories no longer issues a warning but a validation question.
• Highlight: The "highlight" command, used by "apt" is now faster and more reliable.
• Adjustment system: The mintsystem adjustment system is now LSB compliant.
• Changes in the default selection: Songbird, dansguardian and dragonplayer were removed. Python-rsvg, htop, choqok, moc, kmymoney, ofx, gimp, kftpgrabber, b43-fwcutter, linux-wlan-ng, linux-wlan-ng-doc, setserial and sl-modem-daemon were added.

Download Linux Mint 10 KDE here.

Banshee 1.9.4 Alpha For Windows Released

Banshee is a very popular music player for Linux. And also my favorite music player. So I'm very excited to see its release for Windows.

Banshee is a very featured and convenient music player for Linux. though the Windows version doesn't have that much polish, it is only alpha now. Cheers for Banshee.

For your ease, the folk at Banshee have made a .msi installer available whch you can downloadhere. Don't forget to give a try.

Download Latest UC Browser 7.5

Download UC Browser 7.5

The latest version of UC Browser has implemented most requested features like free copy in java. It also has optimized page load speeds and other existing features

Changelog

1. Free Copy comes to Java, finally.
2. Manage to set proxy server, to access some intranet sites.
3. WWW pre-load is now supported to make reading faster than ever.
4. When reading a web page, keep alive with server.
5. Upgrade the core to the latest, as the same as Chinese version.
6. Add accept-language string for visiting some multi-language sites.
7. Mouse is moving quicker if long-press direction button, named Quick up/down.
8. Now auto-refresh interval can be shortened to 10 seconds, in order to track match score or so.
9. More download section (Block size) settings, to match different network and speeding download rate.
10. Changed some default settings, e.g. automatically using the middle server for all pages. So as to provide a better rendering effect.
11. Some bug fix and little improvement.

System Requirements

Mobile Phones with a screen and operating equipment;

Supporting JavaME newer than MIDP 1.0;

At least 512k internal storage.

Download

you can download UC Browser from the official website or wapsite

Customize The Linux Terminal

The Linux Terminal is powerful, but sometimes can be dull and boring. Here are some of my customizations that make the Terminal a little more attractive. All of these can be done by editing the .bashrc file in the Home folder. All these are not for Linux Mint by the way, as Linux Mint already has these customizations.

Add Some Color:

Wanna display the current directory and your username in bash? But with some colors? Then just add the following in the .bashrc

# Colors
PS1='\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\] \[\033[01;34m\]\W\[\033[00m\]\[\e[1;32m\]\$\[\e[m\] '

Well, you can

Display a Fortune:

You can display random quotes in bash. First install fortune-mod.

For Ubuntu,

sudo apt-get install fortune-mod

For Fedora

su -
yum install fortune-mod

Now add the following to the .bashrc

fortune -s

Here is my Terminal(Konsole) in KDE.

If you want to display animals as above, first install cowsay,

For Ubuntu,

sudo apt-get install cowsay

For Fedora

su -
yum install cowsay

Then add,

fortune -s | cowsay -n

In stead of

fortune -s

To randomize cows, you can replace it with

# Check for interactive terminal (should not produce output otherwise).
if [ "$PS1" ]; then
# Set location of cow files.
cowdir="/usr/share/cowsay"

# Create an array from the files in our $cowdir.
cows=($cowdir/*)

# Randomly select a cow from our cows
# (${#myarr[*]} == num items in array, RANDOM == random number).
mycow="${cows[RANDOM % ${#cows[*]}]}"

# Create an array of possible cow actions (think or say).
cowactions=("cowsay" "cowthink")

# Randomly select an action.
myaction="${cowactions[RANDOM % ${#cowactions[*]}]}"

# Call fortune and pass the results to cowthink/cowsay with our chosen cow.
fortune | $myaction -n -f "`basename ${mycow}`"
fi

You can refer this wiki for further details

Latest Burg Manager Updated To 1.0.5

Remember we mentioned about Burg? Burg is a themable and beautiful bootloader based on grub. There is an intuitive interface that makes the installation and configuration of burg very easy. Burg-manager also allows to install many beautiful themes for burg. Today it was updated to 1.0.5. The latest release allows to:

• Install Burg, Burg-themes and a Burg emulator
• Set timeout
• Set your favourite theme
• Set the screen resolution
• Add new themes by choosing them among the ones you can find on this site
• Remove Burg
• Restore Grub2
• Setting the default operating sistem
• Setting advanced parameters
• Add menuentry to boot some iso directly using burg

To install Burg-manager, just run the following commands in terminal,

echo "deb http://www.sourceslist.eu/repo/ubuntu lucid main non-free" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
sudo gpg --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys FA088BA5 && sudo gpg --armor --export FA088BA5 | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install burg-manager

New DockbarX - Get The Most Of Your Panel

DockbarX - Get The Most Of Your Panel

DockbarX is a Gnome panel applet that has grouping of applications and live window previews. It is themable and featurefull. DockbarX has improved the way Windows7 implemented grouping and thumbnail previews in its superbar, allowing us to customize almost everything. The latest release looks like page previews in google search with dark color and horizontal alignment. It now provides close buttons in the preview and appropriate thumbnail sizes.

You can install DockbarX in Ubuntu using PPA. Just type the following commands in terminal,

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:dockbar-main/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install dockbarx

Softmaker Office 2008 Is Available For Free Download

German software company SoftMaker are giving away free copies of its commercial office suite ‘SoftMaker Office 2008′. And that's not all, they will donate € 0.10 to charity for every successful download of the application set.

While SoftMaker Office doesn't have a elegant user-interface design or feature set, it fits for basic office needs and with a lightweight footprint is responsive in use.

The suite comprises of:

• TextMaker – A word processor app that can read and write to various formats including .doc, .odt, .sxw and its own .tmd format.
• PlanMaker spreadsheet tool – Compatible with Microsoft Excel with Excel-compatible charting and an Excel-compatible AutoShapes drawing layer.
• SoftMaker Presentations - Compatible with Microsoft PowerPoint.

You can download the Office Suite for free both for Windows & Linux here.

A Brief Guide On Customizing Windows

Being a linux user, I know how tough it is to customize Windows when compared to Ubuntu. There are many people who dont care about it and by "customization" they mean changing the wallpaper and screensaver. But certainly there are a lots of people who want to go further and make their desktop unique. But windows doesn't like tweaking. Windows7 doesn't even supports third party themes by default. We have to patch it to make it usable. I know there are lots of application, which offers windows customization (for example windows blinds); but I don't prefer them, they are too resource hungry.

So here is a brief guide on customizing Windows, specifically Windows7. Not a step by step guide though, just an overview, to make it easy for you. And of course, the applications I will recommend here, doesn't take much memory. So you don't have to worry about RAM.

UXStyle: As I have mentioned, we have to patch a third party theme to use it in Windows7. And it is a real pain. But thanks to UXstyle, which has made it easy for us. Actually nothing is mentionable about this tool. Just grab it from http://uxstyle.com, install it and then forget it. It will do its work behind the scene. You dont have to worry about patching the theme from now on. Great, isn't it?

Themes: Now download a theme. http://deviantart.com has a great collection of components that can be used for customizing Windows. Just search for Windows7 themes there, and you will find many. For example let us consider the Soft7 theme which you can download from here. Now extract the archive, you will notice a folder Soft7 containing the theme elements and a theme file Soft7.theme.Copy both of them to C://Windows/Resources/Themes/ Now you may have to restart your PC to apply the theme. Go to the personilze option and apply the theme. Remember, you must have UXStyle installed to apply the theme properly, as you didnt patch it.

Start Orb: The default start orb may not go well with your theme and you want to change it, right? Download Windows 7 Start Orb Changer and a suitable start orb (you can find plenty of them in deviantart, for example SteelOrb). Those start orbs are nothing but bitmap images. Just open the start orb changer as Administrator and select the .bmp image, your start orb is changed.

Taskbar Icons: You can also manually customize the icons of the applications that are pinned to the taskbar to match it with the theme. Search Google for detail tutorial on this. But I am here talking about another easy way to do it for some well known application. Download 7Confier, run it as Administrator, and select from the available icon themes.

Here is a screenshot of my taskbar with changed start orb and icons:

Cursors: Just consider this cursor theme for example. right click the proper .inf file and install it.

Gadgets: Microsoft provides a lots of gadgets in their official website. And if you are not happy with it, then again deviantart. Thousands of gadgets, choose one, for example Chameleon Glass. Now run the installers, they are easy to install. If you are not happy with this kind of gadgets, you may want to give Google Desktop a try.

These are some basic steps to customize your desktop. You may also try various launchers or docks to increase the usabilty. Or you may want to go one step forward and use tools like Rainmeter or Emerge Desktop to give it a unique look. The choice is yours...

You have your own customized desktop? Why don't you share it with us?

Download Latest UC Browser 7.4 - Another Revolution Of Mobile Browser

UC Mobile, the leading mobile internet service provider has just released the new release of its mobile browser—The UC Browser 7.4 English Official Version. After 3 month’s hard work, the new version becomes a much easier but still powerful mobile browser for you to enjoy mobile browsing. This one will be its real hit for the market where Opera mini, Bolt, Skyfire used to be. Try it, you’ll love it from the beginning.

Ahead of checking new features in detail, this new version still have a lot of unique features such as superb data compression technology to save 85% of your traffic charge, powerful download, built-in file manager, save and share, night mode. And all these features are performing better on 7.4 version.

The new updates are centering on the belief of “more localization, more globalization”. The amazing new and improve some existing significant features for this update are:

1) Better Page Display with full support of WAP2.0 standard



2) Enhanced Performance Up to 30% Increase


3) Cursor Mode as Default


4) My Shortcut – visit your favor sites by one click



5) New Start Page Design for better display and more sites



6) Free Copy is Back for Symbian phones



7) Improved Feedback to make your voice heard by UC Team



8) Country Select Page at first time start



9) Localized Start Page for different countries for Java platform



You can find this latest update version from its website or wapsite

UC Browser 7.4 Java Signed English Version.jad
UC Browser 7.4 Java Signed English Version.jar
UC Browser 7.4 Java Unsigned English Version.jad
UC Browser 7.4 Java Unsigned English Version.jar
UC Browser 7.4 Symbian V1 English Version.sis
UC Browser 7.4 Symbian V2 English Version.sis
UC Browser 7.4 Symbian V3 English Version.sisx
UC Browser 7.4 Symbian V5 English Version.sisx

UC Browser 7.4 - Big Step From User Oriented Changes

The UC Browser has an update in the early November; I think most of our guys are enjoying it right now. I’ve noticed the news about the update, but I want to see comments about this new update to decide whether it’s a good choice to try 7.4 or not. I install the 7.4 today, and then glad to find there are really some changes I want to share with you. And the still powerful download, which could help users to get over the operator’s file size limitation, and data compression and fast speed function are all been well kept in this new version. All the changes may be small, but they hit my necessary a lot and it is really becoming a mobile browser for worldwide users.

The first one is the cursor mode as default. It’s really good for new users who are so familiar with this mode from Opera mini. Frankly speaking, I paid a lot of hours to make clear the word - “common mode” when I started to use UC Browser 7, then I changed to cursor mode which felt much more easy to use for me. New users can skip this learning step now. To the UC Browser, it is really a worldwide browser now.

The second change I feel happy to see is the improved feedback mechanism. We all know that the UC Team has a forum. But how could I report a bug or share my opinion on the go? In UC Browser 7.2, the feedback function is so poor that I even haven’t any interest to open it, but in this update of UC Browser7.4, I find the difference. When I click the menu button and choose feedback, a form jumps out as a new tab and I can write what I want to say to UC Team and get updated about the things if I leave my email address.

The third change is the returning free copy function. I was so confused about the reason why UC team cut the free copy function in 7.2 version. I like the function so much; it helps me to share with my friends. I used to post for requiring it back in 7.2 version, but it didn’t work. So I used Opera mini for some time during the UC Browser 7.2 version. But now it comes back, I can start using it again.

Another very important things is that UC Team seems to have fixed the access bug for Vodafone Live. Actually, I am with a sim card from Vodafone Live, in the old version, UC Browser can just visit wap sites with this APN, but now, it seems totally OK with my mobile now, thanks UC Team for doing that.

Although the changes I refer here are so small, but they are really useful during browsing. The UC Team is really doing something we can see from the first sight. I’m glad to see that and I suggest you to try the new UC Browser(you can find files at their wapsite), you’ll love it as me.