Tag Archives: application

New Deskbar Plugin

Since I’ve been stuck at home and can mostly only type one handed, I decided to work on my Deskbar plugins to try and keep myself busy and forget about the pain in my sholder and back. As a result, I put together a new Deskbar plugin called Wayd(What Are You Doing) that allows [...]

Short update

Forgot to blog about it when I released it, but I put together a Twitter plugin for Deskbar. Also I released a new version of the Gajim plugin. You can download both them from my Deskbar plugin page.

A little trip planning

Today we managed to get Placeaware.com ready to release to the world. It’s an interactive trip planner with some nifty features. Play around with a few of the live sites or watch the screen cast.

Chesspark

Tofu’s mystery project, a jabber based chess game/environment, finally went beta yesterday. It’s called chesspark, go check it out.

Latest hacks

Lately I’ve fallen in love with Deskbar(think OSX Quicksilver). I put together a couple of plugins to make it more productive for me.
Also upgraded my laptop and desktop at home to EdgyEft. Edgy continues Gnomes slow steady progression of polish, speed and simplicy. It rocks!
In other software news, Brian pushed out an [...]

Gregarius

I was frustrated with Bloglines issues a while back and switched to a self hosted install of Gregarius. Gregarius has it’s own set of issues to work through, but at least with access to the code you “can” fix them and it is being actively developed.

What’s in your Firefox?

Inspired by the “what’s in your bag” meme and for my future reference, I’m posting the contents of my Firefox extensions:

ChatZilla
Gcache
Nuke Anything
Tab Clicking Options
User Agent Switcher
Web Developer
Live HTTP Headers
Diggler
Bloglines Toolkit
Disable Targets For Downloads
Unread Tabs
Chrome Cleaner
Adblock
Foxylicious
Gmail Notifier
ForecastFox
Greasemonkey
SessionSaver

Anyone use another extension that’s useful? Post them. Hmmm… that reminds me, I need to finish my S2 template, the [...]

Editors

One day I wake up an realize I actually like VI(vim) almost as much as Emacs.

New stuff

Two new applications I been using recently that are worth more investigation.
rdiff-backup and FireHOL

Dillo

Playing with Dillo again tonight. It’s amazing what you can do in 256KB. What’s really nifty are its “dpi” plug-ins.