Firefox addins follow up

Some additional addons that I like are:

SuperDrag & Go: Now called QuickDrag

Web Developer Tool Bar:

Colorful Tabs

Status Bar Download

Create your own album cover

From eKrantz.com | Family, Comments and Tutorials:

Here's a fun exercise to kill 10 minutes. Create your own personal album cover...

"# Go to Wikipedia’s random article page. The first article you get is the name of your band.
# Go to the Random Quotations page. The last four words of the last quote is the album title.
# Go to Flickr’s Interesting photo page. Third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover.
# Put it all together to make your album. Either crop it to CD cover size, or just use the raw image itself … the only rule is you’re only allowed to add the album title and artist title."

Ok, I modified the rules for myself, my random article hit on an actual band name, so I hit it again.

Thinking of moving these tech notes over to www.BleedYellow.com

Lotus911 is now making available to the Lotus community a fully functional version of the Lotus Collaboration software, Lotus Connections, at the site BleedYellow.com I am considering moving either this content, or at least the important items over to this site to take advantage of the platform that I enjoy.

I have a lot to catch on from Lotusphere2008 wrap up on my company blog and sleep is calling...

FreeMind move example

This is the first FreeMind mind map with aout upcoming move. Testing it out here to see how it looks.

Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10 >> Mixed Signals >> Rupert Goodwins's Blog at ZDNet UK Community

Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10 >> Mixed Signals >> Rupert Goodwins's Blog at ZDNet UK Community: "Monday 22 October 2007, 1:43 AM Vista versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10 Posted by Rupert Goodwins "

I nice discussion on the differences in experiences with Ubuntu & Vista.

How to Use Lotus Notes on Linux with Wine

How to Use Lotus Notes on Linux with Wine:

Julian's Notes are from 2005 and were a great starting point. A few updates:

The regression bug mentioned has been corrected, fixed, and rolled into the latest version of wine. So using the latest version of wine was all that was needed (also current version of wine consists of just one file "wine" no longer need to get the 3 packages separately).

I did not follow the steps for the wine configuration part (step 8) as I think the wine configuration is different in the latest version.

I just loaded it and will have a later update once I use it for a while.

Howto Set Up and sync a Palm PDA [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums

Howto Set Up and sync a Palm PDA [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums

From the above linked article:

1 - Plug the usb cable into the usb port on your computer.

2 - Put your Palm in the cradle or plug in the cable.

3 - Go to System->Preferences->Palm OS Devices

4 - In the Pilot Settings pop-up select the Devices tab and click Add.

5 - In the Device Settings pop-up enter info as follows:

Name: Cradle
Port: /dev/ttyUSB0 <--*see bottom Speed: 57600 Timeout: 2 Type: USB Click OK and then click Add again and enter: Name: Cradle1 Port: /dev/ttyUSB1 <--*see bottom Speed: 57600 Timeout: 2 Type: USB 6 - Now, back in the Pilot Settings window select Pilots and click Add 7 - Once the new pop-up appears, press Synchronize on your PalmPDA While it is searching, select "Get from pilot" in the pop-up window just mentioned. Your computer should synchronize and get a Name, ID and username from your PDA. Now your device officially exists in the gpilot database on your computer. 8 - Close the most recent pop-up. You should still have the main Pilot Settings window open. Click the Conduits tab to decide what you want to synchronize and so on...this is essentially the same as what you may have used on other OS's. Finally: Every time you want to sync, make sure gpilot is running and then hit the sync button on your PDA.

This started to work on my Palm TX but is currently stopping the middle. I had this working a few months back, but don't regularly sync up. Just a quick note here so I would know where I found the original information

Annotating PDFs

Annotating PDFs: Linux

Some good options... I got Jarnal Working and going to test out pdf edit..

Annotating PDFs

Dru (SysAdmin, Technical Writer, Technical Trainer) Posted 7/7/2007
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A new Ubuntu user asked me the other day how to annotate PDFs on her system. She does a lot of collaboration and hadn't yet found a non-Windows way to annotate PDFs.

I tried a few tools this morning and by far the easiest one to use is Jarnal. This one is Java based so you'll need java installed on your system. (FreeBSD users can download Java packages from the Foundation and PC-BSD users can install the Java PBIs.) Ubuntu instructions appear to be here though I have not tried them myself.

Once Java is installed, create a directory for the Jarnal files; I created a subdirectory of my home directory:

mkdir ~/jarnal && cd jarnal

I then downloaded the zip file to that subdirectory , unzipped it and set the bash script as executable:

unzip jarnal-install.zip
chmod +x jarnalannotate.sh

BSD users: bash isn't installed by default but can be installed with pkg_add -r bash. The path to bash will be incorrect in the script. Edit that file to change the first line to read #! /usr/local/bin/bash. If you're not sure where bash is installed on your Linux system, which bash will give you the path.

Now, run the script with:
./jarnalannotate.sh

While annotating itself is very easy, figuring out how to open and save the PDF wasn't as intuitive. To open an existing PDF, use File->Open Background. Select the Text tool (black T icon on far right), click where you want to type with your mouse, and start typing your annotation. When you are finished and want to save your file, use File->Export->Export to PDF.

TomKa writes:

8/9/2007 #

Take a look at this.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PDFedit
I found it vesy usefull.

gnome-session - Linux Command - Unix Command

gnome-session - Linux Command - Unix Command

My Ubuntu sessions were freezing up when I logged in and it took a while to figure out what was up, but the only consistent item was that certain files would attempt to start. However, if I started in safe mode all would work fine, or if iI started in Kubuntu that would work as well. So I searched for info on the Fail-safe mode and found the above linked article.

The useful piece for me was:

gnome-session uses the contents of the ~/.gnome/session file for starting up as specified by the "Current Sesssion" key in the ~/.gnome/session-options file. Various default values are provided in case the file entry does not exist.

If the session file does not exist, gnome-session will use the contents of the
/usr/share/gnome/default.session file.

With this information I found the session file and edited it removing the ids of the files that I believed were causing the problem, logged off safe-mode and then back on in regular Gnome and it was fixed. :o)

More Ubuntu Notes and Thunderbird

I've had a bug in Ubuntu the last few days with Gnome-Panel. The panels would freeze up after selecting an item. It seems to be related to the more customized versions instead of working with the existing items, so I reverted back to the originals and moved all my launchers ( After getting them prettied up and moved just to how I liked them...oh well not a major loss all is working again and I can move on to bigger and better stuff).

As mentioned in an earlier post, I tried out several blogging tools to make posting easier, so that perhaps I would get more entries up. After trying the 3 and only getting 1 to really work, I figured I would go back to this method of posting via email. This is a much nicer and easier way to post.

Although I've been a long time fan of Firefox, I hadn't given Thunderbird its fair chance to prove itself. What I have seen so far these last few days, I've been very happy with the add-ons are great to work work with I just haven't figured out a way to get the tool bars to share icons between the editing of an email and the inbox, more to play around with later. Using Freepops as well has really been a great addition. Although I am mixing it with YPops at the same time and seems to work alright.

Finally got Juice working and I like the music player Exaile, but I am being tempted to try out Songbird... I looked at it briefly the other day and looks as clean as iTunes or perhaps RealPlayer with the home page info.