Archive for October, 2008

Epiphany Pearl - Tabbed History

No Comment // Written on Oct 29, 2008 // Open Source

A quick pearl to spread an old news about Epiphany to other browser’s users:

with Epiphany, when you open a new tab from a link (middle click or right click + open in a new tab) the browser keeps the history of the parent tab!!!

Yes, for those who know that’s probably not a big deal, however I like this feature so much I needed to spread!

Use Epiphany! You can go back in a just opened tab!

Remember the Milk on Gnome

No Comment // Written on Oct 23, 2008 // Net, Open Source

Reading Federico’s article about the Remember the Milk AIR client get me more interested on RTM ( still Remember the Milk, not Read The Manual ) and curious about the possibilities offered by this Service.

logo Remember the Milk on Gnome

Looking around the net I found that this guy created a nice integration beetween RTM and Gnome DE, using the Deskbar Applet. I’m not a Deskbar fan, I thinks it’s quite heavy on loading and I always preferred not adding it to my panel, however I decided to use it only for RTM tasking, disabling all others plugins.

new_task-300x190 Remember the Milk on Gnome

In the screenshot above you can see the nice result I got with a 30secs installation. Just downloaded the plugin, extracted it (withouth the directory, just the two files) indide my :

~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible

In some enviroments the directory can also be

~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/handlers

Then I just added the applet to my panel, disabled all plugins from it except the RTM one and configured Remember The Milk, confirming in the browser the possibility to access the APIs.

In the above picture it was shown what happens when you digit on the deskbar a name for a task that you have not inserted yet. Below you can see what happes when you digit something that is both contained in one ore more tasks but can also be a new one.

all_operations-300x190 Remember the Milk on Gnome

If you click on the Icon or on the text you will be browser redirected to website while if you click on the arrows you will be prompted for new interaction and/or more informations will be shown.

As example below you can see what happens when clicking on the arrow near the Add Task instruction: you can choose in which folder save your new task…

all_inserting-300x190 Remember the Milk on Gnome

If you want to modify or view a task you can click on the arrow near the name of the old task and this is what you get:

task_details-300x190 Remember the Milk on Gnome

Conclusions: useful instrument, nice interaction with Gnome DE. I like it!

Who’s amung … lacking stabilty

No Comment // Written on Oct 22, 2008 // Net

I always liked who’s amoung service, and I personally congratulated their staff about their brand new web site style. However in the last week I noticed lots of ‘black holes’ in their tracking system.

whos-300x44 Whos amung ... lacking stabilty

As you can see from the above image, for each day of the week I got one ore more hours of 0 visitors while the other web analytics tools I do use, reveal a normal activity of the site. I checked some other websites and they seems to have problems located on the same (italian) hour so I believe this can be a generalized problem.

I really hope they are in troubles for having received so many new sign up requests after the new release, and that this is going to be solved soon!

Growing fast!

No Comment // Written on Oct 15, 2008 // Info, Net, Open Source

Yes that’s what I mean by : ‘LinuxFeed is growing fast

Linux Feed is Growing

Future Whish List :

  • English Version
  • Offering a blogging host ( Wordpress Based )
  • Owning an in-server built OpenId service

An apple a day…

No Comment // Written on Oct 15, 2008 // Others

#!bin bash
apple=`emerge --sync && layman -S && update-eix && emerge -D world && revdep-rebuild`
An $apple a day keeps the doctor away