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Using Thunderbird and Zimbra together with tags

Yazan: dp | 03 June 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Software

If you’re trying to use Thunderbird to tag messages, you might notice in Zimbra‘s webmail that the tags are called $label1, $label2, etc. The way to make these “right” is to edit the prefs.js file. Rename the $label1, $label2 values to “important”, “work”, etc. Make sure they start with a lowercase letter, else they won’t [...]

LXDE, Menu, Panel, etc

Yazan: dp | 28 May 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Software

I’ve just gone through hell and back to share this information with the world, thanks to a little help from phillw on freenode. I was trying to determine where LXDE stores menu items for the applications menu, and wasn’t having any luck. But here’s what I found. /usr/share/applications stores files called “.desktop” files. These files [...]

Codeblocked: An Adventure in Slow Code

Yazan: dp | 16 December 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Software

It’s amazing how much content a company can add in a year, especially when that company writes articles for it’s living. A year and a half ago, I wrote this code against Sphinx: $cl = new SphinxClient (); $res = $cl->Query ( $q, $index ); foreach ( $res["matches"] as $docinfo ) { $excerpt = $cl->BuildExcerpts(array($contents), [...]

Where’ve all the media players gone?

Yazan: dp | 14 October 2009 | 2 Comments
Categories: Software

I want a new media player. I want it to: play MP3s, OGGs, FLACs, etc (glaring at iTunes) download podcasts not be ugly as sin (glaring at Amarok2) be graphical (I’m a commandline junky, but not when it comes to playing music) (glaring at cmus) be fast, and not randomly lock up (glaring at Amarok1.4) [...]

Light IM Client

Yazan: dp | 12 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Software

If you’re on Linux, and looking for an IM client that’s lighter than Pidgin, check out Empathy. It only uses about 23M of memory, plus about 15-20M for the background transport services. It has tabbed chat windows, notifications (via Gnome Notification), etc. It’s also one of the only clients that supports Voice Chat through Google [...]

Claws Mail Auto Preview of Messages

Yazan: dp | 12 June 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Software

To enable auto-preview of messages within Claws, go to Configuration -> Preferences -> Display -> Summaries. Under the Message list section, change Open message when selected to Always. Done! To enable auto-preview of messages within Claws, go to Configuration -> Preferences -> Display -> Summaries. Under the Message list section, change Open message when selected [...]

Converting IE6 Users: One by One

Yazan: dp | 21 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Software

We were looking over the access logs of a few of our sites this morning, and noticed some people still hitting the sites with IE6. This pains me greatly. IE6 is the bane of every web-developers existence, and causes more headaches than anything else in my world. As such, I’ve started a cause: Converting IE6 [...]