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New Deskbar Plugin

Matthew — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:33:17 +0000

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 you to update multiple micro-blogs at once(twitter, jaiku, etc…). It currently supports Twitter and Jaiku but I hope to add Facebook and Pownce once they have an API available. If anyone knows of other micro-blog services I should include, please let me know in the comments. Since the Deskbar plugin API changed, you’ll need the 2.19+ version of Deskbar for this plugin to work.

Short update

Matthew — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:59:29 +0000

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

Matthew — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:20:33 +0000

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

Matthew — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 13:49:19 +0000

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

Latest hacks

Matthew — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:49:17 +0000

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 amazing IMAP interface to gMail.

Gregarius

Matthew — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:44:33 +0000

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?

Matthew — Fri, 18 Mar 2005 14:07:00 +0000

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

Anyone use another extension that’s useful? Post them. Hmmm… that reminds me, I need to finish my S2 template, the comment area is a mess.

Editors

Matthew — Tue, 10 Feb 2004 14:11:00 +0000

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

New stuff

Matthew — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 16:38:00 +0000

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

Dillo

Matthew — Sun, 09 Mar 2003 15:36:00 +0000

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

Column Editing

Matthew — Mon, 06 Jan 2003 06:23:00 +0000

Man I must be way behind the times, just learned how to edit columns/blocks in Emacs and vi. Do yourself a favor and learn it. It’ll save you loads of time.