installing bluetooth manager on my debian laptop

i just wanted to install some kind of bluetooth connection manager in my laptop, coz i had some files to be transfered from my mobile to laptop. my laptop is a compaq presario m2000 and i'm using debian(my favourite OS) on it.

first i installed bluez-utils package.

apt-get install bluez-utils

then i conected the bluetooth dongle and ran hciconfig .

hci0: Type: USB
BD Address: 00:11:67:1D:ED:DC ACL MTU: 678:8 SCO MTU: 48:10
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:4816991 acl:18400 sco:0 events:7524 errors:0
TX bytes:657600 acl:7361 sco:0 commands:71 errors:0


so with the previous result i knew that the dongle is recongnized and then i wanted to scan for new devices. then i turned on blutooth in my mobile phone(sony ericcson k750i).

then i executed hcitool scan and it gave me following result.

praveen-laptop:/home/praveen/Desktop/Downloads# hcitool scan
Scanning ...
00:18:13:4F:4A:61 Praveen K750i
00:03:7A:E0:9B:EE CHANDIKA
00:17:4B:D4:29:56 Chandika Nokia 6630


now it seems that i can connect into the phone. so i wanted to know
some more information about my mobile so i ran hcitool information 00:18:13:4F:4A:61 and gave me the following result.

Requesting information ...
BD Address: 00:18:13:4F:4A:61
Device Name: Praveen K750i
LMP Version: 1.2 (0x2) LMP Subversion: 0x41c
Manufacturer: Philips Semiconductors (37)
Features: 0xff 0xed 0x8d 0xf8 0x1a 0x08 0x00 0x00
<3-slot> <5-slot> ....


then i installed gnome-bluetooth debian package. so i selected tuxfamily.org to download it, so i had to update the sources.list which resides at /etc/apt/sources.list .

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/osrdebian unstable gnome-bluetooth
deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/osrdebian unstable gnome-bluetooth


i added the following two lines. then i tried to update apt but it seems that you need a public key to access the newly added sources.

so then i ran

wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/osrdebian/61B8DB62.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -

to add the key to the apt trusted key list.

hard work is over it seems. then i ran apt-get install gnome-bluetooth in order to install gnome-bluetooth

when the install completed there was new button appearing under

applications ->accessories -> bluetooth file sharing.

when i clicked on it. the service got started and then i tried to send an image file to the laptop from my mobile and it worked.

wooow, at last.

but to send files from my laptop to mobile i still have to use the command gnome-obex-send which opens a new window asking to which device i want to send the file.

thats well done.

i'm catching up and living with linux.

Desktop application Vs Web Application

is this the end of the desktop applications era?

you may ask why i said so. even though i'm a PHP developer, when it comes to large scale projects i always recommended to have it as a desktop application. but now I've changed my mind. web applications was lacking one thing for sure. it was the ability to perform multiple tasks at once. but today this is totally different.

today i've dowloaded the eyeOS.
"eyeOS is an Open Source Web Desktop Environment, commonly known as Web Operating System (Web OS) or Web Office"

it was simply superb. the total file size of the source files was just 1Mb. then i extracted it to "/var/www" and then i opened an web browser and typed "localhost/eyeOS" . and there was a warning message saying that ./etc/ folder needs 777 access level. so i changed the access level and then refreshed the browser window. then it asked for the root password, and it was all.

this is eye candy. for sure.

the eyeOS seems to be the most interesting web application i've ever used. with its endless opportunities i cant even imagine what the web is going to be.

installing applications is really simple. all you need to do is download the eyeOS application from the web and open the "eyeApps" application in the eyeOS menu. and then click "install apps" button placed top-left of that window. and then just link to tar.gz file you've downloaded from the application library.

i'm going to install this in my server. so then i'll be having access to all my files at the same place and i'm getting the authority to manage all my files in one browser window.