Customize Nokia S40 Themes

now you can easily modify Nokia S40 themes which have .nth as their extension by using a simple trick. To do this, you will need an unzipper, which can unzip zip files, like WinRAR. The trick is very simple, firstly check if your phone comes under Nokia S40 platform or not. Check in the list of mobiles that come under Nokia S40.nokia

Now, get the .nth (theme file), you want to edit:

* Rename .nth file to .zip extension
* Extract the contents of the file
* You will get number of files, some of them are images, some of them may be ringtones and one “theme_descriptor.xml” file, which contains the information, that how theme will work in phone.

Now, you can easily merge any number of themes by selecting good features of them. You can replace wallpaper of some theme to other, or you could also customize ring tones, swf files etc.

All you need to take care is of that you have to replace the original file, with same dimension image (for good clarity) and replaced image should also have the same name as of the previous one.

If you are a computer geek
, you can also try out editing “theme_descriptor.xml” file, for advanced features. You can also use Carbide.UI to create and edit S40 and S60
themes.

Indian Students to get Laptops just for $10!

indian government is planning to roll out laptops for students just for 500 rupees ($10). According to reports, the laptop’s prototype will be launched by the Indian Human resource minister, Arjun Singh at Tirupati on 3rd of February.

According to the reports published on periodicals and news papers, the technology for these low priced laptops has been developed by the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore) and the Indian Institute of Technology (Chennai), but will be manufactured by some other private companies
and will be rolled out in the Indian market within next six months. It has also been reported that the laptop will be supporting 2 GB of RAM.

So, this initiative would be really a boon for the Indian children having talent and potentiality to work with computer but could not do so because of financial constraints. Lets be optimist and hope to see these low priced laptops (worth $10) soon in the market. :)