While not widely touted, Nokia's Ovi Music store is on track to make Nokia's music catalog DRM-free globally. This was first mentioned in December at Nokia's Capital Market Days event. Keep in mind that we're talking about Nokia's a la carte music download service, not its all you can eat Comes with Music offering that lets you keep all the tracks you can download in the first year but locks them to a single Nokia handset and PC for life. Russia's Ovi Music store was the first to go DRM-free back in November while adding single sign-on with other Ovi services during the revamp process. Now we're hearing that India has quietly joined suit with its Nokia Music store becoming the DRM-free Ovi Music incarnation. Nokia is apparently focusing on growth markets first on its way to more western markets but it's a good sign that its fair use debilitating DRM is on the way out -- a good thing for consumers and a change, like free Ovi Maps, that makes Nokia handsets just a bit more attractive.Nokia Ovi Music store slowly shedding its DRM shackles globally originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink   |  The Symbian Blog  | Email this | Comments Continue Reading »

I have compiled the sales tax for NY and FL in Magento. I have no problem passing it back out to the community. If you need this information, please post a reply and I can email it to you. (PS – Don’t put your email in the reply. When posting your reply, the site will ask for your email address. This should prevent bots from picking it up.) I’m trying to avoid consuming too much bandwidth with placing it as a download.

It’s taken me a few days to put this all together. I’m happy to put together another state or two as well if it’s of high enough demand. All I ask in return is that you visit my ad sponsor links as they help to compensate for my time. Other than that, it’s free!!

The format is set up for Magento 1.3.2.4. I can confirm the upload works in this version. Also, the format followed is the format provided by the Magento Developers in this post.

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UPDATE: In kde4, you can right click your desktop, select desktop settings and select New Themes…

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So I found a great article on how to install my first non-default Plasma Theme. I’ve copied most of the steps, but found that some didn’t apply to me. I’m currently running kde4.1 under Fedora 9. If you have any questions, leave a comment and we’ll help where we can.

Steps to take:

Create a new folder where you are going to store the downloaded plasma themes

• Go to the folder “~/.kde4/share/apps/” (My kde folder was ~/.kde/ rather than ~/.kde4/)
• Create a new folder and name it desktoptheme if it does not exist

Get a Plasma Theme

• Go to the site KDE-Look.org and choose a theme to download.
• Download the tar.gz file to any folder of your choice (I downloaded the Glassified Theme)

Install the downloaded plasma theme

• Extract the tar.gz file to a folder in the directory “~/.kde/share/apps/desktoptheme/” – Again, the kde folder may be “~/.kde/”. Make sure you extract it into a folder that is the title for your theme as you will need this later.  If you don’t already have the “desktoptheme” directory, you will need to create it.
• Press “Alt+F2″ and type in “kquitapp plasma”. This will exit the plasma theme. We will get it back later after configuring the new theme.
• Press “Alt+F2″ again and type “kate” to open the text editor. (You can use any editor for this.)
• Open the file “plasmarc” found in the folder “~/.kde4/share/config/”
• Locate the line where it says category, so I had to create it. Just add it to the bottom of the file. like this: (this is where you put the directory name/theme title)
• name=themetitle
• Save the changes you made to the file and Exit
• Press “Alt+F2″ and type in “plasma”. This will bring the new plasma theme

Worked like a charm for me. Great article from http://pramodrt.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/changing-the-kde4-plasma-theme/

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