When I came to know that SSH works on GPRS enabled phone — it gave me a clue that the port 22 must be opened on GPRS enabled phone. So I asked my BlackBerry service provider – Airtel India support guys to activate the GPRS service on my phone and as it got enabled and tried to connect the remote Linux Server using midpSSH, it started working on my BlackBerry smartphone – WOW .

For Linux developer guys, it is essential that you connect to the remote Linux server from anywhere. I found having a SSH client on my BlackBerry 8520 smartphone is very convenient for a quick status check and troubleshooting.
MidpSSH is a SSH and Telnet client for mobile device [It's open source software - so you can modify it too as per your requirement.]

Here’s step-by-step guide on how to connect to a Linux server from BlackBerry 8520 phone using MidpSSH software.

1. Download MidpSSH on BlackBerry Phone

From the blackberry browser, go to http://www.xk72.com/wap and click on ‘Latest Development Release (v1.7.3)’. This will display several download options for blackberry phone. Select the BlackBerry Build OS 4.x.

When you select download, you may get a warning message — “The application does not contain a signature. It might not be from a trusted source. Do you want to proceed?”. Select ‘Yes’. This will start the download automatically as shown below.

2. Install MidpSSH on BlackBerry Phone

After download, it will automatically install the application and give you the following installation successful message. Click on ‘OK’, which will display the MidpSSH icon on the blackberry home screen as shown below.

3. Create a new SSH Client session and connect to Linux Server from your BlackBerry Phone

Create a SSH client connection by giving the ip-address of the Linux server you would like to connect to from your blackberry phone as shown in the Fig below.

For example:

Once the session is created, select the session using the trackball, which will give the option to connect, for me SSH Client session ‘Dev DB’, you need to go to the ‘Dev DB’ client session and right click on ‘Dev DB’ and select ‘Connect’ to connect to the remote Linux server . This will prompt the message — “The application MidpSSH has attempted to access a low-level network connection. Would you like to allow this?.” Select “Yes” for this message, which will connect to the remote Linux server.

Note: As we know, the firewall only permits access to the SSH Server via port 22. If even you have Rs. 899 unlimited Airtel BlackBerry Internet service plan on your BlackBerry phone, you can’t connect to Linux Server from your BlackBerry Phone – it gives an error message “Writer: could not open tunnel – failed”. Because, by default for Airtel users with using EDGE (enabled) BlackBerry smartphone, port 22 is not opened (first, I tested it on BlackBerry Curve 8520 locked phone with Airtel).

You must need to enable GPRS service on your BlackBerry phone if you want to use SSH on your smartphone. So as the GPRS service is enabled on your phone, the SSH will work and you would be able to connect to the remote Linux server.

Happy SSH on BlackBerry Curve 8520!!

Note that the default font size on the SSH client is very small. This makes the Linux prompt really tiny and practically not readable even with a 20/20 vision. The solution is simple — increase the font size.

Later, I had also tested the midpSSH on BlackBerry 9530 Storm Touch, Blackberry 9000 Bold and BlackBerry Curve 8900 (including BlackBerry Curve 8520) with Blackberry Internet service and GPRS enabled and it worked for me on these Blackberry smartphone models.

If you will have any problems related BlackBerry SSH — just let me know by posting your comment here.

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Now, at the end of the working day you can walk away from your computer and keep on going on your phone. The N900 users will be able to download Firefox in Nokia’s Ovi store. It will be able to synchonise with the desktop version of browser it means that if there is any pages open in your desktop browser will directly be opened in your mobile version of the browser means a total sync between desktop and mobie device.

I personally use Opera Mini on my BlackBerry smartphone but the options in firefox makes me a fan of it. The mobile version of Firefox is already out for Nokia N900 but still I’ve been waiting for BlackBerry and iPhone smartphones. Soon, it will be on my finger.

Firefox for mobile is packed with your favorite features, including:

Firefox is the first mobile Web browser to support add-ons. With add-ons, you can customize your Firefox by adding features that help make your browser your own. Add-ons like AdBlock Plus, URL Fixer, TwitterBar, language translators, and geo guides become especially handy when you’re out and about on your mobile device. You can both discover and install add-ons directly from your Nokia N900. There are currently more than 40 Firefox add-ons available for mobile and the number is growing every day.

If you are fan of YouTube I strongly recommend that you install the YouTube Enabler add-on from within the Add-ons Manager. Tap on the install button, restart Firefox, and you’re all set to watch YouTube videos.

Download Firefox for mobile:

Enjoy mobile version of Firefox!

Much awaited Mobile Version of Firefox is out for Nokia N900 smartphone owners with the Maemo OS. But still it has to come out for other smartphones like BlackBerry, iPhone, etc.

Now, at the end of the working day you can walk away from your computer and keep on going on your phone. The N900 users will be able to download Firefox in Nokia’s Ovi store. It will be able to synchonise with the desktop version of browser it means that if there is any pages open in your desktop browser will directly be opened in your mobile version of the browser means a total sync between desktop and mobie device.

I personally use Opera Mini on my BlackBerry smartphone but the options in firefox makes me a fan of it. The mobile version of Firefox is already out for Nokia N900 but still I’ve been waiting for BlackBerry and iPhone smartphones. Soon, it will be on my finger.

Firefox for mobile is packed with your favorite features, including:

Firefox is the first mobile Web browser to support add-ons. With add-ons, you can customize your Firefox by adding features that help make your browser your own. Add-ons like AdBlock Plus, URL Fixer, TwitterBar, language translators, and geo guides become especially handy when you’re out and about on your mobile device. You can both discover and install add-ons directly from your Nokia N900. There are currently more than 40 Firefox add-ons available for mobile and the number is growing every day.

If you are fan of YouTube I strongly recommend that you install the YouTube Enabler add-on from within the Add-ons Manager. Tap on the install button, restart Firefox, and you’re all set to watch YouTube videos.

Download Firefox for mobile:

Enjoy mobile version of Firefox!

1. Test whether the mobile version of your blog or site is correctly working or not

Follow these steps:

1. In the Location bar, type about:config and press EnterReturn.

The about:config “This might void your warranty!” warning page may appear. Click I’ll be careful, I promise!, to continue to the about:config page.

iPhone

To use your Firefox web browser as if it’s the Safari browser inside the iPhone, follow this guide to change the user agent of Firefox. The user agent string to use is as follow:

For general.useragent.override in about:config preference:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3

For User Agent Switcher add-on (you can get it from here):

Description: iPhone

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)

App Name: AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko)

App Version: Version/3.0

Platform: Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3

BlackBerry

For general.useragent.override in about:config preference:

BlackBerry9500/4.7.0.78 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/124

For User Agent Switcher add-on:

Description: BlackBerry

User Agent: BlackBerry9500/4.7.0.78 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/124

App Name: BlackBerry 4.7.0.78 External link

App Version: BlackBerry9500/4.7.0.78

Platform: BlackBerry 4.7 run on RIM OS 4.7

How to test whether the mobile version of your blog or site is correctly working or not. For this, you can use Firefox browser’s about:config preference.
Here I’m giving an example for iPhone and BlackBerry (follow the same for setting other browsers’ specific useragent string).

Follow these steps:

1. In the Location bar, type about:config and press EnterReturn.

The about:config “This might void your warranty!” warning page may appear. Click I’ll be careful, I promise!, to continue to the about:config page.

iPhone

To use your Firefox web browser as if it’s the Safari browser inside the iPhone, follow this guide to change the user agent of Firefox. The user agent string to use is as follow:

For general.useragent.override in about:config preference:

Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3

For User Agent Switcher add-on (you can get it from here):

Description: iPhone

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en)

App Name: AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko)

App Version: Version/3.0

Platform: Mobile/1A543 Safari/419.3

BlackBerry

For general.useragent.override in about:config preference:

BlackBerry9500/4.7.0.78 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/124

For User Agent Switcher add-on:

Description: BlackBerry

User Agent: BlackBerry9500/4.7.0.78 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/124

App Name: BlackBerry 4.7.0.78 External link

App Version: BlackBerry9500/4.7.0.78

Platform: BlackBerry 4.7 run on RIM OS 4.7

1. Make a mobile version of your Wordpress blog or site
2. Mobile Firefox: Walk away from your computer and keep on going on your phone

They know who your friends are, where you live, where you work, and where you spend your free time. They know about your health, your love life, and your political leanings. These days they are even branching out into collecting your realtime GPS location and your DNS lookups. In short, not only do they know a lot about what you’re doing, they also have significant insight into what you’re thinking.

GoogleSharing is a special kind of anonymizing proxy service, designed for a very specific threat. It ultimately aims to provide a level of anonymity that will prevent google from tracking your searches, movements, and what websites you visit. GoogleSharing is not a full proxy service designed to anonymize all your traffic, but rather something designed exclusively for your communication with Google.

GoogleSharing is a system that mixes the requests of many different users together, such that Google is not capable of telling what is coming from whom. GoogleSharing aims to do a few very specific things:

1. Provide a system that will prevent Google from collecting information about you from services which don’t require a login.
2. Make this system completely transparent to the user. No special websites, no change to your work flow.
3. Leave your non-Google traffic completely untouched, unredirected, and unaffected.

The GoogleSharing system consists of a custom proxy and a Firefox Addon. The proxy works by generating a pool of GoogleSharing “identities,” each of which contains a cookie issued by Google and an arbitrary User-Agent for one of several popular browsers. The Firefox Addon watches for requests to Google services from your browser, and when enabled will transparently redirect all of them (except for things like Gmail) to a GoogleSharing proxy. There your request is stripped of all identifying information and replaced with the information from a GoogleSharing identity.

Googlesharing is hardly the only tool that can flummox Google’s behavioral tracking system. The proxy system Tor, for instance, provides anonymity for any sort of Web browsing by siphoning a user’s data requests through not one but three servers.

Click here to download Firefox Addon for GoogleSharing proxy.

Google Chrome for Linux has arrived.

As we know, Google has already its open source version of its Chrome browser and it is called Chromium. But recently Google has updated its Google Chrome browser with a new beta release.

So here, it’s all about installing Google Chrome browser on Debian machine.

Installing Google Chrome browser (Chromium) on Debian Lenny or Ubuntu is easy. Let’s start now…

Imp. Note:

Command line configuration for APT

On an APT-based system (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.), you must download the key and then use apt to install it and refresh your package indexes.
For more information on Google’s package signing key, see the Signing Key page.

Run these commands as root from commandline:

rakesh@ debian:~# wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -


rakesh@ debian:~# apt-get update

Recent versions of apt-get will automatically attempt to verify packages on download. If an appropriate key is not found or if the package is corrupted, you will get a message like the following:

Add the following rule to e.g. /etc/apt/sources.list, or if your distro has the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory, add it to a file called google.list in that directory:

rakesh@ debian:~# gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

then use apt as usual, e.g.

rakesh@ debian:~# sudo apt-get update

Run the following command from commandline as root to install Chrome browser (for me the current version of Chrome are: google-chrome-unstable and google-chrome-beta)

rakesh@ debian:~# sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable

OR

rakesh@ debian:~# sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta

Done!

To open the browser, go to Applications -> Internet -> Google Chrome.

Enjoy Google Chrome in Linux ! …

Google Chrome for Linux has arrived.

As we know, Google has already its open source version of its Chrome browser and it is called Chromium. But recently Google has updated its Google Chrome browser with a new beta release.

So here, it’s all about installing Google Chrome browser on Debian machine.

Installing Google Chrome browser (Chromium) on Debian Lenny or Ubuntu is easy. Let’s start now…

Imp. Note:

Command line configuration for APT

On an APT-based system (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.), you must download the key and then use apt to install it and refresh your package indexes.
For more information on Google’s package signing key, see the Signing Key page.

Run these commands as root from commandline:

rakesh@ debian:~# wget -q -O – https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add -


rakesh@ debian:~# apt-get update

Recent versions of apt-get will automatically attempt to verify packages on download. If an appropriate key is not found or if the package is corrupted, you will get a message like the following:

Add the following rule to e.g. /etc/apt/sources.list, or if your distro has the /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ directory, add it to a file called google.list in that directory:

rakesh@ debian:~# gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

then use apt as usual, e.g.

rakesh@ debian:~# sudo apt-get update

Run the following command from commandline as root to install Chrome browser (for me the current version of Chrome are: google-chrome-unstable and google-chrome-beta)

rakesh@ debian:~# sudo apt-get install google-chrome-unstable

OR

rakesh@ debian:~# sudo apt-get install google-chrome-beta

Done!

To open the browser, go to Applications -> Internet -> Google Chrome.

Enjoy Google Chrome in Linux ! …

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