About : Albin Sebastian

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Install Android 2.1 UI on Nokia S60v5 mobile

I was searching for a solution to run android on my Nokia 5230. I found some YouTube videos with tag Android and Nokia. After a long search I found some solution to tweak the user interface of Nokia with an Android. Here are the steps to change Nokia UI to an Android UI on Symbian [...]

[ More ] February 22nd, 2011 | 86 Comments | Posted in Mobile |

Buddypress – WordPress CMS as Social network

Buddypress is an open source plugin for wordpress. buddyperss can change wordpress as a social networking site. Anyone can create their own social networking sites in 10 minutes. It can be integrated with organizations intranet sites, institutes, small communities etc.  Application is working on PHP platform and MySql database. It support Gravatar as well as [...]

[ More ] January 20th, 2011 | No Comments | Posted in Misc |

PfSense advanced configuration with SquidGuard and Lightsquid

Here i am explaining how to integrate SquidGuard and Lightsquid  in a pfsense Squid Server.  Earlier we have published an article about the how to setup a proxy with pfSense Firewall distribution. as we know SquidGuard is a URL redirector used to use blacklists with the Squid. Squid can perform better with SquidGuard. LightSquid is [...]

[ More ] December 21st, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Servers |

Wikileaks Datacenter

Wikileaks is hosted at White Mountain Datacenter in Stockholm (Sweden), Pionen also houses dozens of servers belonging to other companies. These pictures show the Pionen data centre, 100 ft below ground in a former Cold War nuclear bunker.The datacenter is bomb proof . This is one of the most secure Datacenters in the world as [...]

[ More ] December 13th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Security, Servers |

pfSense as a proxy server – installation guide

Pfsense is a FreeBSD based Open source security distribution. Pfsense is basically using as a gateway device (firewall and router). But it can be expandable as many Server services like DNS, DHCP, Proxy Servers. Here I is the step by step procedure to install a Pfsense based Proxy server. Download pfSense CD from here http://www.pfsense.org/mirror.php?section=downloads [...]

[ More ] December 2nd, 2010 | 9 Comments | Posted in Networking, Servers |

Parental control using OpenDNS Family Shield

DNS level security system is one of the easiest ways to implement. No need to update the signatures locally. Because all the updates happening in server side itself. And the main advantage I noticed is there is no softwares ( client application ) required. Open DNS is secured DNS service, In addition they launched a [...]

[ More ] November 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Security |

Christmas special wallpapers and theme for windows 7

Download Windows 7 Christmas theme. Click the wallpapers to download

[ More ] November 25th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Misc |

Log server performance using Windows performance monitor

Windows performance monitor is a real time performance monitoring tool. It gives result in three different ways, Graphical view Histogram view and plaint text counter view. Some times we need to log the utilization of a server for the future reference. It includes various  services like IIS, SQL, CPU, Disk usage etc.. you can write [...]

[ More ] November 24th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Servers |

Connectbot SSH client for android

ConnectBot is an open sourse Secure Shell client for the Android platform. Using this SSH client you can manage your SSH enabled servers / devices. You can monitor utilization, restart services, analyze logs etc .It can also use as a secure file transfer application. ConnectBot is must tool for system administrators and webmasters who manage [...]

[ More ] November 22nd, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |

WordPress mobile application for Nokia symbian S60

WordPress released a nice mobile application for managing wordpress blogs, WordPress for Nokia is an open source project under GPL license . The application support symbian platform. You can run this application in S60 and Maemo powered Nokia mobiles. If you are a developer you can contribute here Application can use with wordpress blogs with [...]

[ More ] November 20th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Mobile |