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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 [...]

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 [...]

XFN/FOAF

Yazan: dp | 26 May 2009 | No Comments
Categories: Uncategorized

I’ve been working on getting all of the sites on which I have public profiles compiled together into a list. Currently, the fruits of that effort can be seen in the sidebar of this site. All of those urls should have a rel=”me” attribute on them, so that the social graph is correct, and all [...]

Password security and Digg.com

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

I’ve been on a mission lately to change all of my passwords on all of the sites that I use. To make it easier on me, I’m using KeePassX to generate them, and to store them. When creating these passwords, I’ve been using Upper+Lower+Numbers+Special Characters+Minus+Underline, and a length of 26 characters. I figure this is [...]