Nokia drops support for Skype app on the Lumia 610

Nokia has announced that it is dropping support for the Skype app for Windows Phone on their recently announced Lumia 610. The reason for this, according to them, is the below par user experience of using the app on this particular device.



The following is the full explanation from Nokia regarding the matter:

“Nokia values the user experience provided by its products and services. Therefore, although the Skype Windows Phone version is workable on Nokia Lumia 610, after in-depth testing, we found that the user experience is not up to par with Nokia and Skype’s expectation and decided not recommending users using Skype on Nokia Lumia 610. In the future, users of Nokia Lumia 610 would no longer be able to download Skype Windows Phone version from Window Phone Marketplace. However, Skype Windows Phone version would still be available for other users.”

The reason for the poor experience is likely to be the 800MHz processor and the 256MB of RAM on the Lumia 610, whereas every other Windows Phone currently available has 1GHz processor and 512MB of RAM. We find this a bit strange, due to Nokia's close relationship to Microsoft and with Microsoft actually owning Skype now, as to how they didn't manage to iron the issues out and make the app work properly on the Lumia 610.

This also makes us worry about how current apps will work when even more Windows Phones with slower processors and lower memory start rolling out later this year with the Tango update. If people who own Skype have been unable to optimize it properly for the lesser hardware, we wonder if third party developers will be able to do it.

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Nokia confirms working on multiple PureView phones

Love what Nokia has done with the camera on the 808 PureView? Well, then there is a lot more where that came from. Nokia's Head of Product Marketing, Vesa Jutila confirmed to Engadget that a lot more of such devices are in the pipeline.



These upcoming phones will have high resolution sensors, quality Carl Zeiss optics and the PureView wizardry but in a slimmer form-factor. Obviously then the phones won't have the same 41megapixel resolution because you can't have the best of both worlds, yet.

Unfortunately, he did not say anything about a PureView Lumia phone but we wouldn't be surprised if some of these phones that Jutila mentioned are running Windows Phone.

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Nokia confirms that Carla update for Symbian is not cancelled

A couple of days ago we ran a story that stated the Carla update for Nokia Belle has been cancelled. However, we have now been contacted by Nokia regarding this matter, stating that this is not the case at all.



We have been told that what we know as Carla was just the codename for the Belle Feature Pack 1, which started rolling out last month for the Nokia 603, 700 and 701. The upcoming Nokia 808 PureView will also be running on this same OS. You can read more about the Belle FP1 updatehere.

We apologize if any misinformation was spread due to our previous post and hope that Symbian continues to get major updates in the future.

Nokia plans to make all Lumia and PureView phones waterproof

Nokia have a history with hydrophobic technology for their phones - but they're also planning to take the technology beyond the concept stage and bring it to all future Lumia and PureView devices and make them waterproof.

Here's what the VP of Nokia Western Europe, Conor Pierce, had to say about the technology:

"What happens when a drop of water lands on a lotus leaf… has baffled scientists for generations... but our team in Cambridge UK found a solution.

Nano technology lets us do it. Superhydrophobic technology makes water bounce, it stops it, rolls it off the device and leaves it water impregnant, that’s the magic, that’s what we’re going to bring to the party."

You can check out a demo we caught on video last year when Nokia showed of a waterproofed 700 - you can see water bounce off the superhydrophobic coating in slow motion.

Unlike current waterproof phones whose outer shell keeps the water out, Nokia plans to coat both the outside and the inside with the stuff, so even if water gets inside the phone it won't do any damage.

Of course, Pierce was mum on when Nokia will start using superhydrophobic technology in their phones. Hopefully, we'll get more details during one of the Nokia World events in early September.

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Nokia announces Batman-themed Lumia 900

You may remember the limited edition The Dark Knight Rises Lumia 800 that Nokia announced late last year. Nokia will now be making a similar version of the new Lumia 900 as well.



Just like the Lumia 800, the 900 will be available in Black and have the Batman logo on the back. The logo is not just printed on the phone but engraved on it, so you can feel the depression. Other than that the phone will also have some other content on the phone such exclusive wallpapers.

The phone is expected to go on sale in a few weeks in UK, France, Germany and a few other European countries. It will be limited edition so make sure you act fast if you want to get your hands on it.

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Dual-SIM Nokia 110 and 112 go official, to cost under €40

Nokia just unveiled two new additions to its lineup of ultra-basic Dual-SIM featurephones. The Nokia 110 and Nokia 112 are compact-sized S40 devices targeted at emerging markets and users on a tight budget, who want to minimize their monthly bills by taking advantage of two different carrier plans.





Both the Nokia 110 and 112 feature dual-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE connectivity and microSD card slots for expanding their memory by up to 32GB. They pack VGA cameras at the back and easy-swap SIM slots on the side for replacing one of the SIMs without opening up the phone.





The Nokia 110 and 112 can store custom settings for up to five different SIM, which are automatically applied when the corresponding SIM is inserted. The main difference between the two dual-SIM phones is battery backup - the 112 packs an ample 1400 mAh juice pack, while the 110 makes do with a 1020 mAh battery.





In case you like the idea of a super simple featurephone that costs pennies, but have no use for a second SIM slot, you'd be glad to know that Nokia will be releasing single-SIM versions of the two handset as well. They will be called Nokia 111 and Nokia 113 and will be identical to the 110 and 112 in their specs sheet.





Before local taxes or operator subsidies the Nokia 110 will cost around €35, while the Nokia 112 will cost about €38. The Nokia 110 is expected to ship in Q2 2012 while the Nokia 112 will be available from the third quarter of this year.


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Tutorial input data ke database MYSQL

INSERT INTO digunakan untuk menyisipkan catatan baru dalam tabel.

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Masukkan Data Ke Tabel Basis Data

INSERT INTO digunakan untuk menambahkan record baru ke tabel database.

Sintaksis

Hal ini dimungkinkan untuk menulis perintah INSERT INTO dalam dua bentuk.

Bentuk pertama tidak menentukan nama kolom di mana data akan dimasukkan, hanya nilai-nilai mereka:

INSERT INTO table_name
VALUES (value1, value2, value3,...)

Bentuk kedua menetapkan kedua nama kolom dan nilai-nilai yang akan dimasukkan:

INSERT INTO table_name (column1, column2, column3,...)
VALUES (value1, value2, value3,...)

Untuk mempelajari lebih lanjut tentang SQL, silahkan kunjungi kami tutorial SQL .

Untuk mendapatkan PHP untuk mengeksekusi pernyataan di atas kita harus menggunakan mysql_query () fungsi. Fungsi ini digunakan untuk mengirim query atau perintah ke koneksi MySQL.

Contoh

Dalam bab sebelumnya kita membuat tabel bernama "Orang", dengan tiga kolom; "Nama depan", "NamaBelakang" dan "Umur". Kami akan menggunakan tabel yang sama dalam contoh ini. Contoh berikut menambahkan dua catatan baru ke tabel "Peserta":

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);

mysql_query("INSERT INTO Persons (FirstName, LastName, Age)
VALUES ('Peter', 'Griffin',35)");

mysql_query("INSERT INTO Persons (FirstName, LastName, Age) 
VALUES ('Glenn', 'Quagmire',33)");

mysql_close($con);
?>

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Masukkan Data Dari Formulir Ke Database

Sekarang kita akan membuat form HTML yang dapat digunakan untuk menambahkan record baru ke dalam tabel "Orang".

Berikut adalah bentuk HTML:

<html>
<body>

<form action="insert.php" method="post">
Firstname: <input type="text" name="firstname" />
Lastname: <input type="text" name="lastname" />
Age: <input type="text" name="age" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>

</body>
</html>

Bila pengguna mengklik tombol submit dalam bentuk HTML pada contoh di atas, data formulir dikirim ke "insert.php".

The "insert.php" file menghubungkan ke database, dan mengambil nilai dari formulir dengan $ _POST variabel PHP.

Kemudian, mysql_query () fungsi mengeksekusi INSERT INTO, dan rekor baru akan ditambahkan ke tabel "Peserta".

Berikut adalah "insert.php" halaman:

<?php
$con = mysql_connect("localhost","peter","abc123");
if (!$con)
  {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
  }

mysql_select_db("my_db", $con);

$sql="INSERT INTO Persons (FirstName, LastName, Age)
VALUES
('$_POST[firstname]','$_POST[lastname]','$_POST[age]')";

if (!mysql_query($sql,$con))
  {
  die('Error: ' . mysql_error());
  }
echo "1 record added";

mysql_close($con);
?>

Sumber: http://www.w3schools.com

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How to jailbreak your iOS device on 5.1.1

Absinthe 2.0 has been released, bringing with it an untethered jailbreak for iOS devices running iOS 5.1.1. The jailbreak is compatible with almost every iOS device, with the lone exception being the revised $399 iPad 2 with 32nm A5 chip. A solution for the "new" iPad 2 will be released at a later date.

The jailbreak process using Absinthe 2.0 couldn't be easier. In fact, the developers of the jailbreak claim "it's so easy, your grandma could do it." If your device isn't currently jailbroken, then follow the instructions below:

1. To start, you'll need to head on over to the Greenpois0n Web site to download Absinthe 2.0 for your respective operating system.

2. With your device connected to your PC, open iTunes and right-click on the device you want to jailbreak. Select Back Up from the menu. Wait for the backup to finish and then close iTunes.

3. On your iOS device, go into Settings > General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings.

4. Open Absinthe 2.0 on your PC, verify that the correct iOS device has been detected, and then click Jailbreak. The jailbreak process will only take a few minutes.

5. Once the jailbreak is complete, close Absinthe 2.0 and launch iTunes again. Right-click on your device name, but this time select "Restore from Backup." Select the backup you just made. Let your device restore and finish syncing before disconnecting.

Once the restore is complete, you'll have a jailbroken device, complete with all of your apps and information as it was before you began.

If you're having issues with the instructions above, give this Reddit link a try. It worked for me.

If you were using a tethered iOS 5.1.1 jailbreak, open Cydia and search for "Rocky Racoon 5.1.1 Untether" and install it.

Best Websites to Get University Level Education For Free

Not headed back to school this fall? You could be, minus the exorbitant tuition and without even leaving your chair. The web has made it easier than ever before to get a free education, and you'd join the ranks of great thinkers in history who were also self-taught, like Joseph Conrad, Albert Einstein, Alexander Graham Bell, Paul Allen, Agatha Christie and Ernest Hemingway. You, too, can be an autodidact; the breadth of free educational materials available online is absolutely astonishing.

This article introduces you to the three best websites to get started.

Khan Academy



The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by Bangladeshi American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,200 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare and medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, microeconomics and computer science.

Coursera

Coursera is an educational for-profit company founded by professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from Stanford University, located in Mountain View, California. Coursera was launched shortly after Udacity -- a similar venture by former Stanford Professor Sebastian Thrun, and shortly before edX, a similar not-for-profit initiative by MIT and Harvard.



Coursera has created partnerships with reputed Universities including University of Stanford; Michigan; Princeton; and Pennsylvania, and provides free online courses in the fields of Computer Science; Healthcare, Medicine and Biology; Society, Networks and Information; Humanities and Social Science; Mathematics and Statistics; and Economic, Finance and Business. Each course includes short video lectures on different topics and assignments to be submitted, usually on a weekly basis. In most humanities and social science courses, and other assignments where an objective standard may not be possible, a peer review system is used.


Academic Earth

Academic Earth is a website launched March 24, 2009, by Richard Ludlow and co-founders Chris Bruner and Liam Pisano, which offers free online video lectures from universities such as UC Berkeley, UCLA, University of Michigan, Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale in the subjects of Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, English, Entrepreneurship, History, Law, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, and Religion.

Notebooks TERBARU 2012

Amazon  Computers  Notebooks

	Products	Price
	Apple MacBook Pro MD313LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop (NEWEST VERSION)  Apple $1,099.99
	Apple MacBook Pro MD318LL/A 15.4-Inch Laptop (NEWEST VERSION)  Apple $1,645.00
	Apple MacBook Air MC965LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop (NEWEST VERSION)  Apple $1,248.99
	Lenovo G570 4334DBU 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black)  Lenovo $449.99
	HP g7-1310us (17.3-Inch Screen) Laptop  HP $529.99
	Apple MacBook Pro MD314LL/A 13.3-Inch Laptop (NEWEST VERSION)  Apple $1,411.99
	HP Folio 13-1020US 13.3-Inch Ultrabook (Steel Gray)  HP $849.99
	HP dm4-3050us (14.0-Inch Screen) Laptop  HP $579.84
	Acer Aspire AS5750Z-4835 15.6-Inch Laptop (Black)  Acer $379.99
	ASUS N53SM-ES72 15.6-Inch Laptop (Silver Aluminum)  Asus $899.99

software

PROGRAMING SOFTWARE 

	Products	Price	Sales Rank
	Microsoft Access 2010  Microsoft Software	$116.99	#90 in Software
	SQL Server Developer Edition 2012  Microsoft Software	$51.38	#152 in Software
	Visual Studio 2010 Professional  Microsoft Software	$453.99	#155 in Software
	Filemaker Pro 11  FileMaker	$299.00	#268 in Software
	Expression Studio 4 Web Professional  Microsoft Software	$136.99	#495 in Software
	Individual Software Anytime Organizer Deluxe 14  Individual Software	$25.46	#699 in Software
	Filemaker Pro 12  Filemaker Inc.	$295.77	#478 in Software
	Expression Studio 4 Web Professional Upgrade  Microsoft Software	$44.29	#381 in Software
	Serif WebPlus X4  Serif	$18.49	#714 in Software
	Encyclopedia Britannica, 2012 Ultimate Edition  Encyclopedia Britannica	$35.99	#1534 in Software

How to fix battery issues after upgrading to iOS 5.1.1

After Apple's iOS 5.1.1 update was released last two week, several users began reporting that their iOS devices had taken a significant battery life hit.

While the issues are not common to most users, it appears as though some iPhone and iPad owners found that the battery life they had come to expect was not apparent after updating to iOS 5.1.1 using Apple's over-the-air updating.

If you find your device is not getting the battery life it once was, a few troubleshooting tips provided by Apple Support Communities user sbaily4 could be of help.

First, be sure you have a good backup of your iPhone or iPad. Plug your device into your Mac or PC, open iTunes, and sync it.

Open Settings and tap to navigate to General > Reset. Tap "Reset All Settings" at the top of the screen. This option does not delete your content (music, videos, photos, or apps) so you won't lose anything important.

Your iPhone or iPad will then prompt you for basic setup information including reconnecting to your Wi-Fi network, as if you had just purchased the device. Now, use your device so that the battery drains completely to zero percent.

Now, plug your device into a power source (preferably a wall outlet) and let it charge, undisturbed, to a full 100 percent. If your battery percentage is not showing up, open Settings and navigate to General >Usage. Under battery usage, flip the switch to On.

This process should resolve any battery issues resulting from the iOS 5.1.1 update, especially if it was performed over the air. If you find that your battery life is still not up to par, plug your device into your Mac or PC, open iTunes, and perform a restore -- first from a backup and then, if that does not resolve the issue, as a new device.

Have you experienced any issues, battery life or otherwise, after upgrading to iOS 5.1.1? Let me know in the comments!

Linux Kernel 3.4 released

Version 3.4 of the Linux kernel was officially rolled out Sunday, in what maintainer Linus Torvalds called a "calm" release cycle.

"Sure, I always wish for the -rc's to calm down more quickly than they ever seem to do, but I think on the whole we didn't have any big disruptive events, which is just how I like it. Let's hope the 3.5 merge window is a calm one too," he wrote in his announcement.

Such peace has not always been the norm. As recently as last year, controversies over hypervisor support roiled the Linux community, which is known for the full-throated tenor of its debates.

Some of the most important new features in Linux 3.4, according to Kernel Newbies, include substantial updates to the BTRFS file system and new support for graphics hardware from Nvidia, Intel and AMD.

New repair and data recovery tools, error handling improvements and larger metadata blocks were all added to BTRFS in Version 3.4, and support for Intel's Medfield smartphone graphics architecture, Nvidia GeForce 600 "Kepler" devices, and AMD's 7000-series Radeon cards were all included as well.

Along with those additions, a host of other features found their way into Linux 3.4, including a new application binary interface aimed at melding some of the advantages of both 32-bit and 64-bit system architectures. The Yama security module has also been added.

According to a report from Phoronix, Version 3.5 will see additional graphical support improvements. What's more, the publication noted that the process of building Linux support for Intel's forthcoming Haswell processor architecture -- due out in early 2013 -- has begun in earnest.

Nmap 6 Released For Download - Network Discovery & Security Auditing Tool

It’s been a while since the last major release of Nmap. The latest major version has just been released, version 6 – and is now available for download!

Nmap (Network Mapper) is a security scanner originally written by Gordon Lyon used to discover hosts and services on a computer network, thus creating a "map" of the network. To accomplish its goal, Nmap sends specially crafted packets to the target host and then analyzes the responses. Unlike many simple port scanners that just send packets at some predefined constant rate, Nmap accounts for the network conditions (latency fluctuations, network congestion, the target interference with the scan) during the run. Also, owing to the large and active user community providing feedback and contributing to its features, Nmap has been able to extend its discovery capabilities beyond simply figuring out whether a host is up or down and which ports are open and closed; it can determine the operating system of the target, names and versions of the listening services, estimated uptime, type of device, and presence of a firewall.

Nmap runs on GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, Solaris, HP-UX and BSD variants (including Mac OS X), and also on AmigaOS and SGI IRIX. GNU/Linux is the most popular Nmap platform with Windows following it closely.

Major Improvements in v6.00

NSE Enhanced – The Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE) has exploded in popularity and capabilities. This modular system allows users to automate a wide variety of networking tasks, from querying network applications for configuration information to vulnerability detection and advanced host discovery. The script count has grown from 59 in Nmap 5 to 348 in Nmap 6, and all of them are documented and categorized in our NSE Documentation Portal. The underlying NSE infrastructure has improved dramatically as well.

Better Web Scanning – As the Internet has grown more web-centric, Nmap has developed web scanning capabilities to keep pace. When Nmap was first released in 1997, most of the network services offered by a server listened on individual TCP or UDP ports and could be found with a simple port scan. Now, applications are just as commonly accessed via URL path instead, all sharing a web server listening on a single port. Nmap now includes many techniques for enumerating those applications, as well as performing a wide variety of other HTTP tasks, from web site spidering to brute force authentication cracking. Technologies such as SSL encryption, HTTP pipelining, and caching mechanisms are well supported.

Full IPv6 Support – Given the exhaustion of available IPv4 addresses, the Internet community is trying to move to IPv6. Nmap has been a leader in the transition, offering basic IPv6 support since 2002. But basic support isn’t enough, so we spent many months ensuring that Nmap version 6 contains full support for IP version 6. And we released it just in time for the World IPv6 Launch. We’ve created a new IPv6 OS detection system, advanced host discovery, raw-packet IPv6 port scanning, and many NSE scripts for IPv6-related protocols. It’s easy to use too—just specify the -6 argument along with IPv6 target IP addresses or DNS records. In addition, all of our web sites are now accessible via IPv6. For example, Nmap.org can be found at 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe96:967c.

New Nping Tool – The newest member of the Nmap suite of networking and security tools is Nping, an open source tool for network packet generation, response analysis and response time measurement. Nping can generate network packets for a wide range of protocols, allowing full control over protocol headers. While Nping can be used as a simple ping utility to detect active hosts, it can also be used as a raw packet generator for network stack stress testing, ARP poisoning, Denial of Service attacks, route tracing, etc. Nping’s novel echo mode lets users see how packets change in transit between the source and destination hosts. That’s a great way to understand firewall rules, detect packet corruption, and more.

Better Zenmap GUI results viewer – While Nmap started out as a command-line tool and many (possibly most) users still use it that way, we’ve also developed an enhanced GUI and results viewer named Zenmap. One addition since Nmap 5 is a “filter hosts” feature which allows you to see only the hosts which match your criteria (e.g. Linux boxes, hosts running Apache, etc.) We’ve also localized the GUI to support five languages besides English. A new script selection interface helps you find and execute Nmap NSE scripts. It even tells you what arguments each script supports.

Faster scans – In Nmap’s 15-year history, performance has always been a top priority. Whether scanning one target or a million, users want scans to run as fast as possible without sacrificing accuracy. Since Nmap 5 we’ve rewritten the traceroute system for higher performance and increased the allowed parallelism of the Nmap Scripting Engine and version detection subsystems. We also performed an intense memory audit which reduced peak consumption during our benchmark scan by 90%. We made many improvements to Zenmap data structures and algorithms as well so that it can now handle large enterprise scans with ease.

You can download Nmap v6.00 here:

Linux: nmap-6.00.tar.bz2
Windows: nmap-6.00-win32.zip

Or read more here.

Mengganti "Older Posts" Dengan Angka

Secara umum, navigasi untuk pindah halaman di blogspot biasanya menggunakan link dengan teks "Older Posts (posting lama)" dan "Newer Posts (posting baru)". Beda dengan wordpress yang navigasinya bisa berbentuk angka sehingga bisa memudahkan untuk loncat beberapa halaman ke postingan yg lama maupun baru.
Nha trik kali ini akan menjelaskan bagaimana cara mengganti link "Older Posts (posting lama)" dan "Newer Posts (posting baru)" menjadi angka seperti gambar di bawah ini


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The Nokia Lumia 900 display takes hits with a hammer and a nail, lives to tell the story

After the Nokia Lumia 800 survived a mini ice age, we get to see if the Lumia 900 is going to pass the nail-to-the screen test.

Granted, this is not an industry standard test, but the guys over at TechCraver decided to give it a whirl anyways to see how much the Lumia 900′s screen can handle. And by the looks of it, it can take a lot of punishment.

Firstly, the Lumia 900 display got a direct hit with a nail, and because apparently that wasn’t enough, it was used as a hammer afterwards. If you aren’t faint of heart, you may see it all in video below.

Impressive, right? This is yet another example that Corning’s Gorilla Glass can indeed survive quite a lot. Stephen Elop was so impressed, that he even called to congratulate the guys on the successful test.

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How To Install MATE Desktop Environment on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and How To Use Ubuntu Ambiance Theme on MATE Desktop Environment

MATE Desktop Environment 1.2.2 On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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MATE Desktop Environment has been growing popular. In the earlier version, I found that this Gnome 2 Fork was messy, absoulutely unstable and wasn't ready yet for everyday computing. So do in the 1.2 version for Ubuntu Oneiric Ocelot, I found this DE was still unstable, especially if I used Ubuntu Ambiance theme, the desktop will be crashed (panel lost etc).

I almost gave this DE up until I got a suprise when I took an experiment with MATE 1.2.2 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This Destkop is amazingly quite stable and ready to use for now. Even, we can use Ubuntu Ambiance theme with no problem. But, to be known, we can't just use official Ubuntu Ambiance theme for MATE. If we use official Ubuntu Ambiance Theme, the panel will look incomplete and messy.

Hapilly, there is a project to provides a customized version of Ubuntu Ambiance Theme specialzed for XFCE and LXDE. I suddenly temembered that MATE and XFCE and LXDE now is very similar. They are DE with gtk2 so I thought how about using Ambiance Theme For XFCE and LXDE on MATE Desktop, and the result was really good.

Because of the success, I decided to remove the XFCE and LXDE configurations in the theme and then renamed the theme to be : Light-Themes-MATE, and I packed the theme into a Debian package so we all can install it easily on our MATE desktop. Here is the theme you can download and install :

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72782740/debian/light-themes-mate-12.04-all.deb

MATE Installation

MATE installation instruction can be found at http://mate-desktop.org/install/

How To Install Mac OS X Lion Theme On Lubuntu / LXDE

Lubuntu 12.04 with Mac OS X Lion Theme, xcompmgr & cairo-dock

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Mac OS X is the special one in the Desktop market. So many people admire it because of its beauty, safety (yes, it is an UNIX) and its profesional image as “an OS for profesional modern art designer”. Yeah, Mac OS X has beautiful look and I do like its look-n-feel. And so, there are so many theme patcher to make our Microsoft Windows or Linux OS become Mac OS X in the appearance.

In Linux Desktop, there are some project specialized in designing theme transformation pack to make our Linux desktop to be looked like Mac OS X. The most popular project probably is Mac4Lin. But, all of those projects was designed only for GNOME or sometimes support XFCE and how about LXDE? Our Star in the current lightweight Linux desktop? (Yes, LXDE is the most light-but-complete Linux desktop for now).

Until now, there is no project that officially support LXDE. Basically, LXDE uses gtk (now still stay with gtk2) and any gtk theme can be used in LXDE. The problem is, LXDE uses openbox as its window manager. And as the logical reason for its ligthweight, openbox has limitation. Openbox doesn't support complex theming by using high resolution png images so we couldn't build sophisticated theme for openbox. However, we could still build window theme with color for openbox and we could try to resemble any theme we want, although it will never be pitch-perfect same as a clone. And so, there is an openbox theme tried to resemble Mac OS X theme and we could use it to transform our LXDE desktop to be looked like Mac OS X Lion.

After experimenting with previous Mac4Lin theme, I've successfully transform my Lubuntu 12.04 to be Mac OS X Lion style and so then I pack them into DEBS and we could transform our Lubuntu to be looked like Mac OS X easily. Here are the steps to transform Lubuntu to be looked like Mac OS X Lion :

1. Download and install Mac OS X Theme For LXDE
   GKT Theme
   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72782740/debian/macosx-lxde-0.1-all.deb
   Wallpapers (Only For Lubuntu)
   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72782740/debian/macosxlion-wallpapers-lubuntu-0.1-all.deb
2. Download and install Mac OS X Lion Icon Theme
   http://dl.dropbox.com/u/72782740/debian/mac-lion-icons-0.1-all.deb
3. Install Cairo Dock and XCompmgr
   sudo apt-get install cairo-dock xcompmgr
4. Move the Panel to the top and remove Window List (Task Bar) Applet, Application Launch Bar Applet, Minimize All Windows Applet and Desktop Pager Applet.
5. Check the Strecth option of Spacer Applet between Menu Applet and system applet in order to get wide space between Menu and System Tray Applet.
6. Change the gtk and icon theme into Mac OS X, and change the Lubuntu logo into Apple logo by right clik at the Menu applet and point the image logo to /usr/share/icons/Mac-Lion-Icons/places/24/start-here.png
7. Add Cairo Dock and xcompmgr as additional autostarted startup applications in LXDE by editing this :
   sudo leafpad /etc/xdg/lxsession/Lubuntu/autostart
   At the end, add these lines :
   @xcompmgr
   @cairo-dock
8. Save and Exit, and then Reboot the System
9. Now, we have Lubuntu with Mac OS X like look :*