In Episode 13 (our longest episode ever!) we talk about the latest release from the dedicated Puppy Linux team. It rocks, and actually has some great personal productivity software installed!
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If you’re a web designer that likes to work with a powerful text editor rather than a WYSIWYG application, then this blog post Micah Carrick will set you on the right path! He details how to customize settings and install plugins for the Gedit text editor. As the default text editor for GNOME, you’ll find it present in many distributions.
Mr. Carrick’s tips supercharge Gedit and reveal features a like GTK color wheel for inserting hex values for colors, code validation, text expansion, as well FTP and SSH integration. This writeup really doesn’t do justice to the attention detail and great ideas the blog post gives for creating a fantastic environment for web development. Check it out!
Customizing gedit as a Web Developer’s IDE
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That’s right, we haven’t dropped off the face the earth yet! In Episode 12 we talk briefly about Hardy Heron (it’s great release, but not a whole lot of new), and also walk through the fantastic desktop backup app Simple Backup Suite. It’s a quick and dirty one this week, folks!
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That’s right, we haven’t dropped off the face the earth yet! In Episode 12 we talk briefly about Hardy Heron (it’s great release, but not a whole lot of new), and also walk through the fantastic desktop backup app Simple Backup Suite. It’s a quick and dirty one this week, folks!
Did you like this week’s podcast, or was it completely useless? Leave a comment and let me know!
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Reader/Listener Greg wrote in a while ago and pointed a really great CLI tool for managing your calendar.
From Roaring Penquin:
Remind is a sophisticated calendar and alarm program. It includes the following features:
* A sophisticated scripting language and intelligent handling of exceptions and holidays.
* Plain-text, PostScript and HTML output.
* Timed reminders and pop-up alarms.
* A friendly graphical front-end for people who don’t want to learn the scripting language.
* Facilities for both the Gregorian and Hebrew calendars.
* Support for 12 different languages.
Even with these great features, learning the syntax for editing your reminders file can be daunting. Lucky for us, Greg also pointed out a fantastic ncurses frontend for remind that does a lot of the work for you!
Wyrd provides a nice timetable to view your appointments, as well as special tools for easily and efficiently manipulating calendar entries. You really need to watch the demo to see just how seriously cool this application is.
If you’re a text-mode person, or if you’re just tired of slow and bloated calendar GUIs, you owe it to your self to give this app a look.
Here are some other useful links that Greg provided in his email:
43Folders On Remind
Google Calendar in Remind
Thanks Greg!
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