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After my return from Canada and getting my Nexus One Mobile, I decided last Saturday to add the Arabic support to Android 2.2, after 10 mins of hard work and scary moments, I restored all my apps and data to my N1 with Arabic.

(CC-BY simone.brunozzi)

I don’t take any credits for this quick guide, all information were gathered from here and their and I’m not responsible for any bricked devices or data lost and this procedures will void your warranty.. I am warning you

Please note this article is just for Nexus One (Google Phone) with Froyo (Android 2.2) Version.

Ingredients:

• Android SDK R06
• Amon_RA’s Recovery Image
• Nexus 0.1 add-ons
• Froyo Stock ROM with Arabic Support
• Mybackup installed in your mobile (from the market) to backup your data
• USB Cable
• Your Nexus One Mobile

Procedures:

• Unzip the Android SDK in whatever folder you like.
• Go to your Mobile, from Settings –>Applications –>Development –> Enable USB Debugging.
• Connect your mobile to the USB then to your PC.
• Wait until Windows recognized your mobile if not (the normal case ) go to My computer, right click properties then to device manager, look for the N1 mobile, right click –> properties, update drivers and choose the android SDK folder, then USB Driver for your windows version. This should make your windows recognize your mobile.
• Go to Run and type cmd and hit enter.
• Go to the Android SDK folder then to Tools.
• Type this command: adb devices and then hit enter.
• Wait for a second the system should return to you a number like HT123P143456 this is your mobile serial number, and if it didn’t work check if your windows recognized your mobile, if not.. Kill yourself or Google it for a solution
• Go back to your mobile and do a backup if you care about your data like call history, sms, etc.. don’t backup your Google calendar and contacts because Google already do that for you.
• Now turn off your Nexus one.
• Hold the track ball and press the power point for few seconds and release it.
• You should end up with a white screen with three green android at the bottom of the screen.
• Go to Run and open the command again (by typing cmd).
• Go to your Android SDK then to Tools.
• Type: fastboot devices and hit enter.
• It Should give you the same serial number as before if yes then you are on the right track.
• Now to the scary part type: fastboot oem unlock, read the screen carefully if you don’t agree the rules you can choose that and return back to your Froyo without Arabic support, if you want to have a little risk choose unlock the bootloader and press the power button.
• Now you should have unlock sign at the bottom of the screen, restart your mobile in recovery mode (same as before track ball and power button).
• Move Amon_RA’s recovery image to your Android SDK folder\Tools.
• Open your command (Run –>cmd) and hit enter.
• Type the following command: fastboot flash recovery recovery-RA-nexus-v1.7.0.img
• It should take few seconds and give you writing Recovery.
• Now you can boot directory from the menu to recovery image.
• From the recovery image choose to Connect to USB and copy both files the Nexus add-ons 0.1 and the Froyo with Arabic support.
  
• Return to the Recovery image and choose flash zip from sd card.
• Choose the nexus one add-ons and flash it.
• Once the process is finished (congratulation your mobile is rooted) Flash the 2nd zip file with same steps.
• After all is done, disconnect your mobile from USB and restart it.
• Wait until it open, sign in with your Google account, restore your backup and install your apps.
• Voila…you have Arabic support with your Nexus One (go and check it what you are waiting for).

"It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not."

"As long as they are going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."

- Bill Gates

(CC-BY TechFlash Todd)

In a recent post at Pcmag titled "CSI Redmond: How Microsoft Tracks Down Pirates", the author tells a long, suspenseful and obviously MS-sympathetic tale about Microsoft's epic battles against "criminals and pirates". He starts his epic story with the following:

Each new iteration of Microsoft software also marks a new chapter in the ongoing cat-and-mouse game between software counterfeiters and Microsoft's own enforcement team.

Like paper currency, Microsoft employs a variety of techniques to assure customers that the software discs they're buying are valid. And rings of cybercriminals, in turn, make every attempt to defeat those safeguards.

And then he went on to describe the different methods used by "pirates" to counterfeit Microsoft's software, as well as posting images showing the different tools used in the process. Next, he proceeds to tell the epic tales about Microsoft's heroic combat against counterfeiters, and also enumerating the different methods MS uses in that process.

However, the real story about Microsoft's strategy regarding piracy and counterfeiting could never be further from the stories told by the most famous news websites, or even newspapers and news channels or radio stations. The real story, as Bill Gate's quote -mentioned above- suggests, is about creating a generation of computer users who know nothing about their machines other than what MS chooses to show them. A generation whom the only definition they know of the term "Operating System" is "Windows", all they know about installing a new piece of software is "Next, Next, Next, I Agree, Finish".

But then the grief doesn't end here, because the problem will seem even worse if you ponder the fact that most people, around the world, who use computers can barely afford to pay their monthly bills, and that all these people are using pirated software because:

1. That's the only software they've ever known. And:
2. They cannot afford to pay for the annual licensing fee of a genuine copy.

These people have been mass-hypnotized, they've been indoctrinated into believing that whatever MS gives them is right, and that MS software is the only software on Earth that actually works. Now, take under consideration that MS is a for-profit organization after all (Actually, MS is a for-nothing-but-profit organization, but ya know), and that sooner or later, MS will start collecting money in all ways possible. At that point, the poor people who became "addicted" to Microsoft's software are at crossroads. Either:

1. Their financial issues have been solved by then and now they are ready to pay MS for the genuine licensed copy of their software. (Which is very unlikely). OR:
2. That their financial problems are still there, which means, they can either continue to take the risks of using pirated copies of MS's software, or stop using a computer altogether.

Conclusion:
What most mass media institutions and huge famous news website are trying to market as Microsoft's justified fight against pirated software is a big hoax. Microsoft preys upon addiction and complete ignorance, and piracy has always been Microsoft's biggest scam from the very beginning.

The solution:
The best solution for this problem is to turn the table against Microsoft's scam. How? By dumping Microsoft altogether and embracing Free Software. This way:

• There will be no piracy anymore, since Free Software saves our human dignity, because we no longer have to steal anything anymore.
• Microsoft will continue to bleed to death, not from piracy, but from the grand awakening of the people, which is Microsoft's worst nightmare.