Importing contacts in Nokia 6020

Importing contacts in Nokia 6020

Nokia 6020 when bought 10 years back cost me about 12k and was great at that time with the built-in camera, infrared and most of them the joystick made it very comfortable to use. It was my first mobile that could connect with the computer. It had data cable DKU-5 for the data transfer between the PC and mobile. It's still in use and my mom uses it. Though it lacks the Nepali fonts for her, she uses contacts photo list to dial us and relatives. It is just that great and no other phones had been used so long without problem. The problem with it was, it was dead one day and brother had it fixed with the new T mobile Symbian OS. Everything was fine unless one day most of the contacts were deleted by one of my kids while playing with it.
So I thought of restoring the contacts from my mobile to it. So my first task was getting the contacts from outlook 2010 to the format that Nokia supports, which was of course .vcf file.

Exporting the outlook 2010 contacts to vcard files (.vcf)
Method No. 1

1. Create a new email message


2. Click on Attach Item > Business Card > Other Business Cards


3. Select the contact(s)


4. The contact(s) will be attached. Select the contact(s) in vcf extensions; drag and drop to the folder or Ctrl+C (copy) and Ctrl+V (paste) to the desired folder.

Method No. 2

1. Go to contacts section in outlook


2. Select the contact(s) to export. Click on Forward contact drop down icon > As a Business Card. By default on clicking forward contact the contacts will be attached in .msg files (Outlook Contact). So we need to click on drop down icon in it to select Business Card
   


3. The contact(s) will be attached. Select the contact(s) in vcf extensions; drag and drop to the folder or Ctrl+C (copy) and Ctrl+V (paste) to the desired folder.

Now the contacts were ready to be imported to the mobile.

Importing the contacts to Nokia 6020

The mobile was then connected with the computer with the cable so called DKU-5 or CA-42 (Whatever it may be) as I had connected previously but the different PC. The driver was installed and Nokia PC suite installed and updated. But whenever the mobile was connected it said Data Enhancement Connected and then again Enhancement not Supported. So I decided to go for IrDA connection. Then the old Dell Latitude C640 was powered on. Infrared had been disabled in it. So it was enabled from the BIOS settings. The Infrared settings was enabled in the Mobile and then placed near the Infrared reception of the laptop, a shortcut icon on the desktop was created enabling the data exchange between the devices.

Before I finally got the Infrared working on the laptop I downloaded the Infrared driver for it, since it was only disabled from the BIOS the driver was not needed. However the link for the driver is  http://drp.su/drivers/notebooks/?v=Dell&m=Latitude%20C640&id=767&l=en, just in case I format the laptop again.

References:

http://www.technipages.com/outlook-2010-export-all-contacts-to-vcard-files.html

http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/outlook-help/send-and-save-contacts-as-vcards-vcf-files-HA010243189.aspx

http://drp.su/drivers/notebooks/?v=Dell&m=Latitude%20C640&id=767&l=en

http://manage-this.com/backup-outlook-contacts-to-vcard-3-easy-steps/

http://www.fundubytes.com/access-internet-with-nokia-6020dku-5/

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/import-read-vcf-file-44743.html

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Kanhe Maichha

कान्हि मैचा मंसिर महिनासँ,
चुरा व सचिका ज्वना
का वय् त्यल न्हा
का वय् त्यल न्हा

वा दाईचा मंसिर महिनासँ,
जिगु थ्व ब्‌छि जोबन
छंगु लागि न्हा
छंगु लागि न्हा

म्हगसे न छं हे जक
मिखा पिक: वैगु जित

मिखा कना च्वन धासा
न्हिला न्हिला क्यनि जित

छ बिना च्वनेहे मफुत
सुईगु भरे च्वने दाईचा
याकन हे वा दाईचा
याकन हे वा

छँगु मन जिगु मन,
झंग ब्वथेँ ब्वया च्वन
छँगु दुख: जिगु दुख:,
छगु हे थेँ जुया च्वन

छ मदेक जिँ न मफुत
याकन हे का व्य् मैचा,
धैर्य याना च्वँ मैचा,
धैर्य याना च्वँ

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Nepali Fonts Keyboard Layout

Nepali Fonts Keyboard Layout

Nepali Unicode has been the defacto standard in Nepali fonts. It is every where in Nepali computing, in web, in database. However the old documents are still in TrueType Nepali fonts like Preeti, Kantipur. Though it may look like turning back from Unicode to True Type Nepali fonts, I have included these True Type Nepali fonts keyboard layout here. several times it had been the necessity to print out the keyboard layouts of Preeti font, Kantipur font and Fontasy Himali TT font. These keyboard layouts has been generated using Microsoft keyboard layout creator.

Fontasy Himali TT Font Keyboard Layout

Fontasy Himali TT Font Keyboard Layout

Preeti Font Keyboard Layout

Preeti Font Keyboard Layout

Kantipur Font Keyboard Layout

Kantipur Font Keyboard Layout

Following Fontasy_Himali_ TT keyboard layout has been generated from kbdedit program (demo version). It may not be suitable for print however.

Fontasy Himali TT Keyboard Layout using kbdedit

Fontasy Himali TT Font Keyboard Layout generated by KbdEdit

If you are looking for downloading these Nepali fonts and more, they are available at http://www.devanagarifonts.net/nepalifonts.html with the image of those fonts how they looks.

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Do we still need FAT32?

Do we still need FAT32?

Still some people are formatting the harddisk with fat32 file format. I asked myself why?
1. connect it to a NAS device (to avoid NTFS file permission errors)
2. windows is not only the OS on earth, therefore for Mac, Linux, and OLD Windows such as Windows 98

But Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 or later does not let us format the hard disk more than 32GB as FAT32. So a workaround this is using a command prompt

format /FS:FAT32 X:

where X is the drive letter for the harddisk

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Opera desktop and Nepali Unicode

Nagariknews.com in opera looks very unreadable in nepali unicode font at least difficult. The mangal font would have been easier to read in the browser. Firefox by default takes mangal and so no problem in it. But opera (my version 11.61) takes Aparajita as default in monospace font for Devnagari. In monospace font it is only Aparajita font, could not be changed. Though changing the other in Mangal worked in my co-workers but has not resolved in mine. Whereas Kantipur site is fine in this.

For the co-worker changing it to Mangal font in Normal section  Devnagari Writing system > in International fonts from the fonts of the advanced tab from the preference menu, it switched back to Mangal Font.

Tools >> Preference >> Advanced >> Fonts >> International fonts >> Writing system >> Devnagari >> Normal font >> Mangal.

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Koha Installation Offline in Centos 6.0

Koha Installation Offline in CEntOS 6.0

Installing Koha in online environment is pretty simpler and easier than offline. All the dependencies are needed to be downloaded first, and finding the dependencies for me really took long. Finally below is the way I got through. All the required files and dependencies are directory listed here, except the ISO of Centos 6. I will be adding all file in single zip soon.

Install Centos 6.0

Centos Desktop minimal edition was choosen with the customizati0n and added the following packages:

Applications: Emacs, Graphics -> ImageMagick

Base: Perl

Databases: MySQL Client, MySQL Server

Development: Additional Development -> libxslt-devel, tcp_wrappers-devel

Languages: Nepali if needed

Servers: Print Server, Email Server

Web Services: PHP Support -> php-mysql, Web Server -> all Perl modules



Selinux and firewall are disabled in the system.

Disable selinux
setenforce 0

Turn off firewall
service iptables stop
service ip6tables stop

To disables firewall service
chkconfig iptables off
chkconfig ip6tables off

Turning mysql and apache as service
chkconfig mysqld on
chkconfig httpd on

Copy the repo file for CENTOS repo, here I have disabled the internet CENTOS repo so our system will not spend its time on searching the installation file in the internet.
cp CentOS-Base.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo

Copy the repo file for cdrom, here I have added the location of the Centos 6 CDROM and enabled it
cp CentOS-Media.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Media.repo

Now creating our own local repo server for the installation of some packages necessary for koha
yum -y --nogpgcheck localinstall /media/CentOS_6.0_Final/Packages/createrepo-0.9.8-4.el6.noarch.rpm
mkdir /var/myrepo
cp myrepo/* /var/myrepo/
createrepo /var/myrepo
cp myrepo.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/myrepo.repo

Now installing the files from our local repo that are needed by koha

yum -y install libyaz libyaz-devel perl-CPAN perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML gcc GraphicsMagick-perl perl-YAML

Fix the GraphicsMagic installationcd /usr/lib/perl5/auto/Graphics/Magick
mv Magick.so Magick-0.so
ld -share -o Magick.so `pwd`/Magick-0.so /usr/lib/libGraphicsMagick.so.3.6.0



Unpack koha
tar zxf koha-3.06.03.tar.gz
cd koha-3.06.03
perl koha_perl_deps.pl -m | grep 'Yes' | sed -e 's/::/-/g' | awk '{print "yum -y install perl-"$1}' > perl-pkgs-install

sh perl-pkgs-install

It will install the perl modules for the koha from our local repo and cdrom repo.

But there are still some perl modules which are not available in rpm, and need to be installed from the source file.

cd perlpkg

run the commands from the files
11cI
12cI
13cI
14cI
15cI
16cI

Don’t run all of them at once since we won’t be able to see the errors if any.

From the unzipped koha directory run
perl koha_perl_deps.pl -m | grep 'Yes' | awk '{print "cpan -i "$1}' > perl-modules-install
sh perl-modules-install

Cat perl-modules-install

All the necessary perl modules must have been installed

Set up MySQL
[mysqld]
default-character-set=utf8
character-set-server=utf8
skip-character-set-client-handshake

Restart the Mysql daemon

service mysqld restart

Secure mysqld installation.  Follow the prompts and set a root password
/usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Create koha database.  Give it a password other than 'kohakoha'
mysqladmin -u root -p create koha
mysql -u root –p
grant all privileges on koha.* to kohaadmin@localhost identified by 'kohakoha';
flush privileges ;
exit

groupadd koha
useradd koha -s /bin/false -d /usr/share/koha -g koha -M



Install KOHA
cd into KOHA installation directory and type
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

vi /etc/profile.d/koha.tcsh
setenv KOHA_CONF /etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
setenv PERL5LIB /usr/share/koha/lib

vi /etc/profile.d/koha.sh
export KOHA_CONF=/etc/koha/koha-conf.xml
export PERL5LIB=/usr/share/koha/lib

Set up HTTPD
ln -s /etc/koha/koha-httpd.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d/
vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
Listen 8080



Go to http://localhost:8080/ to set up the admin interface

Your might have to edit etc/koha/koha-conf.xml for the corret kohaadmin and password (here kohakoha)

Reference:

http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_3.6_on_Centos_6.2_i386

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Blogging from the desktop

I don't blog much, but when it comes to blogging its really hard to type in the wordpress editing page. Sometimes the cursor just vanishes out, nowhere to be seen.

Some desktop blogging tools from

http://www.centernetworks.com/wordpress-desktop-blogging

Its really frustating:

I too cannot use Word 2007 to post on my wordpress blog. Trying to download free Zoundry.

Update:

Finally it worked with Word. XML-RPC api is disabled by default. It should be enabled from Settings >> Writings >> Remote Publishing

XML-RPC - Enable the WordPress, Movable Type, MetaWeblog and Blogger XML-RPC publishing protocols.

However Word has to download existing post each time I wish to open and Zoundry does not have rich text editing like word. I can't find strikethrough in Zoundry.

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