Tuesday 20 May 2014

Updating Google Nexus 7 from 4.3 to 4.4.2

 

From the home screen, go to Settings. This can be done in two ways.

Tap the App icon in the home screen as shown below. In the appeared screen click on “Settings

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Drag down from the battery symbol as shown below. Click on the “Settings” icon in the appeared display

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In the “Settings” screen scroll down to the bottom and tap on “About tablet”

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In the “About tablet” screen tap on “System updates”

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You will see the Update Screen as shown below. The screen shows a progress bar as well as the size of download needed.

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Monday 19 May 2014

Removing Yellow Tint in Windows Picture Viewer in Windows 7

See the table below


Image Viewed in Windows Picture Viewer showing yellow tint Same Image in Paint .NET

To correct this problem follow the steps mentioned below [Please note that if you have set the Color profile manually then don’t alter it. This may affect your work especially if you are an artist or a graphics engineer]
  • Right click on Desktop. Click on the menu item Screen Resolution
  • In the appeared window click on "advanced settings"
  • Now a tabbed window will appear. Click on "Color Management" button in the "Color Management" tab
  • Ensure that the device selected is the Display you are using.
  • Tick the check box "Use my settings for this device". Otherwise you won't be able to change the Profiles associated with the device.
  • Then Add the Profile named "sRGB IEC61966-2.1". Select the added profile and click on "Set as Default Profile".

  A preview of all the window is shown below

  • Remove the other profile.

  • Click on Close – OK – OK
  • Now refresh the desktop. Open the image in Picture Viewer.


Thursday 1 May 2014

Ubuntu – Installing synaptic packager manager in an offline system

 

Let us see how we can install “Synaptic Package Manager” in an offline system. First we need the “synaptic” deb file listed below

  • synaptic_<version>_<platform>.deb
    • Dependencies
      • libept1.4.12 _<version>_<platform>.deb
      • rarian-compat_<version>_<platform>.deb
        • Dependencies
          • docbook-xml_<version>_<platform>.deb
            • Dependencies
              • sgml-data_<version>_<platform>.deb
          • librarian0_<version>_<platform>.deb
      • libgtk2-perl_<version>_<platform>.deb
        • Dependencies
          • libcairo2_<version>_<platform>.deb
          • libglib-perl_<version>_<platform>.deb
          • libpango-perl_<version>_<platform>.deb

Copy all these “.deb” files to a fodler. Now open the terminal. Change to the directory where all the above “.deb” files have been copied using “cd” command. Now issue the following command:

sudo dpkg –i *.deb

All the “.deb” files can be downloaded from the website “http://packages.ubuntu.com/”.