Opera Mini 5.1 on Ubuntu 10.04

I use this stupid 1GB package thing, and sometimes borrow from my friends. Anyway you count, 1 GB is really not that much, if it's the only connection you get, I mean without net @ school lab or whatever.
@twitter I was following @omgubuntu , and there I found this link.

Following there instruction, like always didn't somehow work. I did install Java SE, but when I was trying to set the jar file to open with Java, I could not find JAVA as a option.

Anyway, here goes step by step what I did to make it all run

1. Go to Applications > Ubuntu Software Center > Type Java in the search button and install  OpenJDK JAVA 6 Runtime

2. Download Micro Emulator from here. Then extract it. In the extracted folder you'll find microemulator.jar . Right click on it, go to properties. Go to the tab "Permissions" . Put a "Right" in order to execute it as a programme. Then go to the "Open with" tab. Click "Add" then select OpenJDK JAVA 6 Runtime.

3.Now download Opera Mini from operamini.com, select the version you wish to try and download both the .jar and .jad files.

4. Navigate to the folder where you have extracted the microemulator file. Now locate the file 'microemulator.jar', and double click it

5. Go to file > Open MIDlet >now choose "Opera mini.jad" Remember JAD, not JAR.

6. "Opera Mini" will will be listed in the app list. Click on the "Start" button and bingo :)

7. Go to "Options > Select device", click "Add...", navigate to "microemulator\devices" and select "microemu-device-resizable.jar"

8. Select the "Resizable device" profile you just added and click "Set as default"

9. Now you have full screen Opera Mini ! yay !

Avro in Ubuntu 10.04

Few days back, dad was yelling at me. Why? Cause "Bijoy" was not working on my Win7. It had Avro already installed, but I don't know probably some mishap happened to the fonts, nothing was being displayed. I was so annoyed.

Good thing was I had dual boot with Ubuntu (10.04). So I tried to write Bangla by going to system > preferences > keyboard. There I added the Bangla keyboard. By that was not a great solution. It was not the Bijoy Layout, so I could not write anything useful. Then I googled a bit and came up with a solution which made my use the iBus.

This is how it was done ... System > Preferences >  IBus Preferences ... There I had to go to the Input method > Bangla > unijoy ! Thing was done :) I successfully wrote the thing dad was asking me to.

Then, I wanted to use Avro Phonetic Bangla. That thing is amazing I mean. So googled a bit. Luckily I followed Mehedi Hasan (Avro/omicronlab Lab Head). There I got a link which made me use scim and follow some other steps. However I failed to run Avro. I needed to install a package.

This is what I did to get Avro running in Ubuntu 10.04

1) Install scim from Ubuntu Software Center.

2) Download installer from http://scim-avro.googlecode.com/files/scim-avro_0.0.2-1ubuntu9.10_i386.deb
3) Change permission [Mark as executable]

4) Here I want you to do something which will help you in the step 5 .
Open Terminal & write
      sudo apt-get install scim-anthy
5) Again in terminal type
      im-switch -c
  
   You get this

Now you will see available options to choose from, watch the number beside scim. I have scim in 6, probably you'll have it in 6 too, if no, change the number

6) Now log off and log in again from your system or simply restart your system.

7) Open gedit or any text editor, and press  (ctrl + SPACE) , now you get AVRO PHONETIC started :) , press (ctrl + SPACE) to switch back to English. Simple as that.

For the original Avro step by step guide :

  http://www.omicronlab.com/blog/support/avro-phonetic-in-ubuntu-linux-lucid-lynx/

  http://omicronlab.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=2029