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Holiday Linux 2007-12-21 05:28:00 First of all, I want to thank you for visiting this linux blog! You might be visiting this blog due to some interesting linux blog entries or probably your visit here was referred by Google search results, either of the two, I welcome you then. In behalf of my, myself and I, I personally wish you happy holidays to all. May you all enjoy all the people and blessings life is bringing to us. ...

HowTo: Chikka messenger over GAIM Pidgin Messenger 2007-12-19 08:26:00 How to send FREE SMS using GAIM? How to send FREE text messages using GAIM into Chikka Network? How to setup Chikka account over GAIM pidgin messenger? How to setup Google Chat/Talk to use Chikka SMS networks? How to setup Jabber protocol to use Google Talk/Chat networks? From an old post entry covering GAIM Pidgin installation, and from a separate blog entry of Chikka installation to Kopete ...

HowTo: Rename Multiple Files Without A Script 2007-12-19 04:57:00 How to rename bulk or multiples files from X? How to rename by inserting a string of characters into Nth column of selected multiple files? How to rename multiple files into ascending/descending numerical manner from X? How to rename multiple files by search and replace characters from multiple files and filenames? How to rename multiple files by removing specific characters from multiple files? ...

HowTo: KDocker/AllTray - System Tray Docking 2007-12-18 03:52:00 Don't you think it's cool to have those linux applications docked down into system tray? Freezing cool if this could be done by just a single point and click operation to docked down those linux apps into your docking board called system tray! Very few apps have docking capabilities (e.g. Yahoo! and XMMS don't have any). Even if they do, sometimes they are specific to desktops (working on KDE ...

HowTo: Thunderbird - News/Feed Reader 2007-12-18 02:52:00 Though primarily developed to function as an email client, Thunderbird is also a great way to read and keep up with your feeds and aggregations. A major benefit from using Thunderbird as RSS feed reader client is its being offline mode of feeds viewing and reading (depending on the feed type). Thunderbird also features OPML import/export capability. Here's an entry on how to setup your ...

HowTo: ThinFeeder - RSS/RDF/Atom Aggregator 2007-12-18 02:25:00 Looking for Java based cross-platform feed aggregator? Here's a quick entry for ThinFeeder aggregator. ThinFeeder is an open source software that aims to provide a cross-platform, powerful and tiny RSS / Atom (currently RSS 0.9x, RSS 1.0 / RDF, RSS 2.0 and Atom 0.3) aggregator for desktop, using the Java development language. Thinfeeder needs Java to run and it eats only a small amount of your ...

HowTo: Sage - Firefox Feed Reader Extension 2007-12-18 02:13:00 Now, since Firefox browser offer many plugins and extensions, and does supports rss/rdf/news feed reader capabilities, here's another feed reader extension available for Mozilla Firefox. Sage is a lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader extension for Mozilla Firefox. It's got a lot of what you need and not much of what you don't. What does Sage do? * Reads RSS (2.0, 1.0, 0.9x) and Atom feeds ...

HowTo: Snownews - RSS/RDF Newsreader 2007-12-18 02:01:00 If you read news and feeds from console (CLI) or via text mode, here is another entry for text-based RSS/RDF news reader for linux. Snownews is a text mode (console) RSS/RDF newsreader. Snownews supports all versions of RSS natively and supports other formats via plugins. Snownews depends on ncurses for the user interface and uses libxml2 for XML parsing. ncurses must be at least version 5.0. It ...

HowTo: Planet - RDF/RSS/Atom Feed Aggregator 2007-12-18 01:52:00 Another feed aggregator available from Linux world is Planet. Planet is a flexible feed aggregator. Planet is an awesome 'river of news' feed reader available also in many linux distros. Originally developed from Debian OS. Planet downloads feeds and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed with the latest news first. Planet runs on a web server. This feed aggregator creates ...

HowTo: Liferea - RSS/RDF Feed Reader 2007-12-18 01:42:00 Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an aggregator for online news feeds. There are many other news readers available, but these others are not available for Linux or require many extra libraries to be installed. Liferea tries to fill this gap by creating a fast, easy to use, easy to install news aggregator for Gtk/Gnome. Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an RSS/RDF feed reader. It's intended to be a ...

HowTo: Blam - RSS/RDF Feed Reader 2007-12-18 01:30:00 There are a number of software list available for feed and news reader. Here's one nice RSS/RDF feed reader tool you can install from your linux box. Blam is a tool that helps you keep track of the growing number of news feeds distributed as RSS. Blam lets you subscribe to any number of feeds and provides an easy to use and clean interface to stay up to date. Blam is currently being supported ...

Switching Hospital Systems to Linux 2007-12-14 02:36:00 jcatcw writes "Health care software vendor McKesson Provider Technologies is focusing on ways to cut IT costs for customers, including hospitals and medical offices. The cure is moving many of McKesson's medical software applications to Linux, which can then be used on less expensive commodity hardware instead of expensive mainframes. A deal with Red Hat allows McKesson to offer its software in a ...

HowTo: CSS Editor and Validator Install 2007-12-14 02:24:00 CSSed is a small developer editor and validator, that tries to ease CSS editing and validation. CSSed is another small project that is available from Fedora and available from yum repos. Cssed is small but powerful CSS editor and validator. CSSed features CSS editing features such as auto completion, CSS syntax validation, and other utilities to help web developer to create and maintain CSS style ...

HowTo: Ebook Reader Install 2007-12-14 02:04:00 Are you looking for multiple format ebook reader? Here's another entry on how to install an ebook reader. FBReader ebook reader is part of Fedora project. FBReader is an ebook reader that provides many features. FBreader supports multiple ebook formats like HTML, CHM, zTXT and many more. Several of them are listed below. * Supports several formats: fb2, HTML, CHM, plucker, Palmdoc, zTxt ( ...

vertito's blogspot anniversary 2007-12-13 07:13:00 Finally, I am now here to create my 400th blog post since Jan 2006. All those months of blog posting is not really that small hobby task for somebody who is also working at the same time. I am happy for your regular visits and comebacks around this blog for quite some time now. Since Dec 2006, I have acquired 316 feed subscribers, 90,499 unique visits, 116 countries visits, 80 technorati links ...