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Nanny Parental Control Software - Simple Setup on Unity

at Sunday, December 18, 2011 Post by : meorbu 4 comments

Here some simple setup for your Nanny Parental Control Software inside new interface of Sabily or Ubuntu start from version 11.04. There some question about it in social network and blog. I found some people looking for Nanny blacklist for Unity but they can't found it. Even on Nanny website, there some problem to get or install it. Maybe they will fix it soon. Anyway what I want to share here how set the site that you want to block. Mean that you already know address of the site. For example I show here is Facebook and previously I had block Youtube. Lets try.

01. Click on Unity shell and search for Nanny. It already installed to Sabily. I'm not sure for other distro. Anyway if not yet installed, you can get and install it from Ubuntu Software Center.

02. Enter your login password here. No way to make different password.

03. Click on the Key button to make all the setting available.

04. This is PC time use that you can set. Just click or drag on it to change. Each block divided for half an hour. Red mean blocked time and green mean permitted time.

05. To add require block site, click on the Web Browser menu the click on the Configure button.

06. On the Forbidden menu, click on the Add button. You can see here I already blocked Youtube.

07. Add the name, description and URL of the site that you want to block. Name and description is up to you. The most important is URL of the site. For example here I add Facebook URL.

08. Facebook already added. Close the window then click on Apply button. Close Nanny setting window.

09. Open your web browser than try the URL that you added before. For example here, Facebook already block by Nanny Parental Control.

Hopefully you can control usage of computer or Internet for your kids without you need to monitor them all the time by using Nanny Parental Control software. So you can do other work while they use computer.

Unity Advanced Settings - Customize Font, Theme, Cursor etc

at Sunday, December 04, 2011 Post by : meorbu 0 comments

Maybe you try to adjust font size on Unity by right clicking your mouse and select 'Change Desktop Background' but the utility is not there. Its look like Unity had disable it. But there are tools created to control all of the utilities that remove from Unity.

It named 'Advanced Settings'. You can search it on the dash. Install it if it not yet install on your system.

Run it and you will get all the feature that you need there.

Here is some screenshots of the Advanced Settings utility.

01. Search for Advanced Settings on the dash.

02. Advanced Settings start.

03. Desktop utilities.

04. Fonts utilities.

05. Shell utilities.

06. Theme utilities.

07. Windows utilities.

Islamic Software Inside Sabily - Monajat

at Monday, November 14, 2011 Post by : meorbu 8 comments

Monajat is an Islamic software that included in Sabily package. It is supplications pop up on your desktop that will appeared depend on your setting. In Sabily 11.10 Uhud, there are some new item that added in Monajat. One is countdown to prayer time that will appeared together with the supplications and another one is Athan that will sound when the time came for prayer. In Monajat, full Athan will sound different with Minbar software that only pack with sample Athan. Location and Athan feature can be set at configure option.

Next time maybe they will add supplication recitation sound in Monajat that I think it is better for user.

Here is some screenshot of Monajat, Islamic software inside Sabily.

01. Generic configuration.

02. Location configuration.

03. Notification configuration.

04. Monajat pop up with reminder for next prayer.

05. Pray time that appeared by right click on Monajat icon.

Sabily 11.10 Uhud Beta - Tested On Virtualbox

at Thursday, November 03, 2011 Post by : meorbu 6 comments

So you can not wait for the latest release version of Sabily 11.10 Uhud, we see the first Beta version was launched yesterday by Sabily project founder Mr. JMehdi. It set default to Ubuntu Unity session and can run smoothly. You also have an opportunity to log in Gnome, Gnome Classic and Ubuntu 2D. Please Gnome mean Gnome3, so it will be different from Gnome2. Select Gnome Classic(No effects) so you will feel like old Gnome2 session.

In Ubuntu Unity session, we cannot get shortcut to all Islamic software and applications. So we need to search it separately. I requested them to fix this matter, so we can get group of Islamic software and applications.

Tested on Virtualbox smoothly on Ubuntu Unity session but crashed on Gnome session. I think due to graphics driver matter on Virtualbox. Hopefully soon they will fix it since Gnome3 is still new for us.

I see Sabily 11.10 Uhud in Ubuntu Unity session with green colour theme was very match and looks very beauty. Uhud wallpaper also very cool that shows hardwork from Sabily wallpaper designer Mr. Muslih.

But they are still no new themes for Sabily so they still use the old theme. Hopefully more voluntary contributor will joint Sabily team in order to help expand the use of Sabily operating system.

Lets see some screenshot of Sabily 11.10 Uhud Beta with comment.

01. Live session.

02. Installation starts.

03. Installation setting info.

04. Installation option.

05. Ready to install.

06. Location selection.

07. Keyboard layout.

08. User information.

09. Installation completed.

10. Sabily 11.10 Uhud Beta starts.

11. Default session desktop.

12. Search applications and filter result. Need to add Islamic software here.

13. System info. Shall they change it to Sabily 11.10.

14. Login screen. More option to log in.

15. Gnome session.

16. Another Gnome screenshot.

17. Gnome crashed.

18. Gnome classic session.

19. System setting in Ubuntu Unity.

Ten day left from now their target to released full version of Sabily 11.10 Uhud. Before that I will try to install beta version on actual system and report the result of it.

If you like to try beta version on your system please download it from here.