Andrea Olivato’s Blog

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.

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.

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.

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…

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:

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

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.

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!

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

Future Whish List :

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

Yes, it’s ture. There are a lot of plugins for Wordpress that let your users interact with Social Bookmarking sites, but as soon as I looked at Hey Silver, I started loving its new way of proposing content. Continue reading →

After looking in the whole web (ok, not in the whole web but a major part of it for sure) a Sitemap Generator for Google News (not the search engine) compatible with the CMS i’m currently using, i convinced myself to realize it with my fingers, so that it could be integrated with my Joomla Installation and that it could import url from Open Sef plugin.

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Today I get surprised, seeing how, with so much simplicuity it is possibile to create something so userful! Perhaps lots of people already know VozMe , a 5Kb plugin that in a few second transform any text on your webpages in a Mp3 file, to download or to listen to in streaming with the embed player.

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Pommo is a simple but powerful Open Source Mailing List managing tool, with a simple and nice interface, and a complete managing system, full of all the aspects that are required for a mass mailing software.

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Sidu is an Open Source Mysql client, completely programmed in Php. Even if it can not be compared to  PhpMyAdmin, Sidu offers advanced Javascript gestures, tables sorting and a simply interface, easy to use.

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