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Wednesday, October 5, 2011

“Sorry Zuck, I had to do it eventually.”–Sean Parker

You have read it right. Sean Parker is apologizing to Facebook’s CEO Founder Mark Zuckerberg.
You can clearly see it in his tweet here:
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But some may be asking, “Who the heck is Sean Parker”?
Well, to answer that question, let me point out some links I have found over the internet:
According to Wikipedia:
Sean Parker (born 1979) is an American Internet technology businessman and entrepreneur. He co-founded Plaxo and Causes, and was a part of Facebook. He was also a co-founder or early employee of Napster.
And for some quick information, here’s his profile on:
  • Forbes
  • Facebook
  • Crunchbase
    • Sean Parker is a serial entrepreneur and a managing partner at the Founders Fund. As one of the two founders of Napster, Sean helped architect and manage the peer-to-peer file sharing application to become one of the largest on the net.
    • Parker subsequently helped found and manage Plaxo, a VC-backed contact management application company. More recently, Parker worked as the Founding President of Facebook before moving on to join up with Peter Thiel at The Founders Fund, a seed-stage venture capital firm. Parker also recently led the move to launch Causes, a new developer application that organizes individuals’ charitable giving on Facebook as well as contributing as an investor at Spotify.
Also, if you guys want to to know what happened between him and Facebook,I’d recommend the movie:

The Social Network

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Source for the Picture: http://www.comingsoon.net
Now there you have it. All about Sean Parker and his business with Mark Zuckerberg.

The Transparent Home Screen (courtesy of Lifehacker)

I have been reading my feed this morning and I stumbled upon on a great article on Lifehacker. It features a homescreen mod for Android users! Here is the article posted on Lifehacker.
I have taken the liberty of attaching their image to the blog since direct linking would eat up their bandwidth.
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Reader Xstray put together this stylish, monochrome home screen featuring a number of transparent widgets and icons.
Here's what you'd need to recreate it:
Do you have an awesome, tweaked-into-oblivion home or lock screen of your own that you'd like to share? Go ahead and post it on the #homescreenshowcase forum with a description of how you made it and it may be the next featured home screen.
Source: Lifehacker
If you guys have some questions about this mod on Android phones, visit Lifehacker and post your inquiries.
I’d love to test this one but unfortunately, I’m stuck on my n97 which runs on Symbian OS. Bummer. Sad smile

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Carbide.UI Plugin: TMA Symbian^ Touch

For starters, Carbide.UI is a theme management software created by Nokia. Its aim is to help people create themes for their phones. If you want to read more about Carbide.UI, you can visit their wiki here.

You can also download Carbide.UI in here.

Once you have Carbide.UI, you can now install plugins and make awesome themes that suits your taste.

TMA Symbian^ Touch Plugin: The Ultimate Touch Plugin

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This plugin is aimed at easing the burden of downloading and installing too many plugins for Carbide.UI (like the n97 plugin, s60v5 plugins and others) which sometimes causes Carbide to crash and render your theme useless.

Here is the Official Details about the Plugin from Nokia Developer's Forum:

Description:


The idea of ​​plug-in development is to facilitate the creation of good quality themes for touch phones and help theme makers deploy it faster and deliver it with better quality

Developer: GRANGEX

I (GRANGEX) would also like to thank you for testing and help develop a plug-in, TMA team (AZ): Abel, Aquarius, Atlantis ®, BST1, DSMA, i1, invaser, NCA, Shilca, Volter, Xcariba

The plugin supports the following versions:


Carbide.ui Theme Edition 2.0
Carbide.ui Theme Edition 3.0
Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition 4.0

The plugin supports the following devices:


Symbian ^ 1 - Nokia (all), Samsung omnia HD, SonyEricsson (icons)
Symbian ^ 3 - Nokia (all)

Differences from the original:


- No unnecessary elements
- For convenience, all the elements are sorted by section
- Added a huge number of new icons and elements that are used in the touchscreen smartphones
- Modified and corrected all thumbs screens
- 90% of the visual elements are displayed on the preview screens

Screenshots:

FAQ:

Q: How do you install the plugin?
A: Follow these instructions:
1 - Start Carbide.Ui
2 - Press the Window - Preferences – Carbide - Plug-in Management (You must do this on the Welcome Screen)

NOTE: Do not update to version 4.2 after you have downloaded and installed Carbide.UI. Updating will remove the Plug-in Management Option on the Preferences. You can update Carbide.UI later after you have installed the plugin.

3 - Press the Add - and in a review select the downloaded plugin (default TMA_plugin.zip)
4 - press OK and wait for when the plug-in be installed.
5 - choose from the list of plugins our new plain.

Q: I opened a theme in the plugin, changed a few items and icons, and now when compiling my crash bug.

A: Most likely you replace the icon in the plugin. If you already have a Third Party Icon you can just delete any repeated icons.

Q: I replaced the scroll bar but I have a strange stretched out image. How should I fix this?

A: This is a bug of the program. To fix it, download the patch for the program here.

Official thread link is located here.

You can download the TMA Plugin in here. Green with envy