Kblogger kept losing any keyboard shortcuts i set up so i had the Theo_Theory is Kblogger is written for KDE and I’m using a GNOME based windows manager so it’s possible the blog tool is just not sitting right….
The final dig around Synaptic package manager for the evening came up with BloGTK 1.1. Easy Setup, spell check and you can add a category – just one mind…
You can open and edit existing Blog entries to.
Gnome-blog
This one has a spell check and real simple looking interface….
but no way to add categories…
so the hunt goes on…..
My partner suggested using a blog client so installed two on my laptop.
Drivel journal editor – nice interface, good name and easy setup but no spell check and i need a spell check so this one is out for me…..
Kblogger – don’t cancel the kwallet setup everything gets a bit tricky if you do. i had to install the KDE Wallet manager and set one up manually.
The UI is not very intuitive and most keyboard shortcuts need to be configured from scratch. It does have the much needed spell check so i will be giving this one a more long term go then Drivel.
The home page for littleliz.co.uk needed a bit of an update so I had a look at some of the open source HTML editors that are available for Ubuntu. The main page is just to send people to other bits, like this blog for instance, but I wanted to add a section re some of the projects I have worked on and this would need a bit more hard core construction.
I needed something WYSIWYG as I can only just stumble my way through HTML and don’t have a head for programing, (don’t get me rong Server or PC hardware / software not a problem I just can’t compile code with the big boys.) I came across KompoZer and it seemed ok – not to complicated but not to powerful either and it crashes loads. I think the current version is still beta (v 0.7.10 – the first 0 = beta right?) and it is a bit unstable – the “tables” menu seems to frequently cause crashes.
In the end I used KompoZer to put together the basic page text and Bluefish to prod about with the HTML to add things like anchors and hyper-links. The result is a simple set of pages, suites me as that’s what I was after.
It occurred to me this morning that it would be good if I could synch my address book between my laptop and computer….
I had already set-up Calender syncing with google so figured an add-on that synchronized my address books with googlemail’s address book would be a bit more organised then setting up an account somewhere else.
So my add-on search found Zindus.
It is a little clunky so far – it adds an icon next to the email count in the bottom right hand corner of the Thunderbird screen as well as an item in the Tools menu to take you to the settings page.
You enter your google account login details and get it to synch, by default it will synch when Thunderbird is opened, however you can right click on the right hand corner icon and force it to synch. It takes a few goes to get info to shift up to google and down to another computer….
The syncing of entries between different calenders is fairly quick,
no more update re the off-line facility though…
Update to the Update
the off-line facility gives you read-only access to your calender, you cant add info until your on-line, if you try to add an entry it will let you type all the info and only warn you it’s read-only when you click on “ok” to save
When setting an image to use as your compiz desktop cube skydome image make sure the pictures’ resolution is no greater than that of your desktop or you will just end up with a blank, white background…..
A few weeks ago I had to clean a few virus’ of a computer and came across the Bart PE build utility. I had used Bart PE before but this was the first time I built a CD from scratch. I needed to get the CD set up with Up to date Anti virus (AVG free)
The building of the CD got off to a bumpy start, I would say have the following to hand -
A windows XP SP 2 installer CD
A computer running in Safe Mode
a bunch of blank CD’s
Install the BartPE utility with the computer running under safe mode as your AV will not like the software’s need to put a load of other AV software files on your computer. I did try disabling real time (on access) scanning, when running in Normal mode, but the install still failed.
Once the build utility is up and running you can configure add-ons as needed so if you using the Bart CD for a virus clean up the be sure to update the AVG plug-in before building the CD. You should only use software that you are licensed to……
Running a complete scan from the CD took no longer then running the scan from the hard drive. I did re scan the computer, “live” from windows once the CD scan had clean most stuff off, just to be 100% sure.
I would recommend this method for cleaning up virus ridden computers as it got the computer sorted with out a rebuild. It may not work in all cases but could save some time.
I would always back things up first if possible how ever….
I recently rebuilt a computer running Windows Vista home basic (OEM) and found that if a previous install of Windows is detected (in this case the same version of Vista) it renames the old system folder “windows.old”. The reinstall process moves the old “Program Files” folder and “Users” folder in there to. Leaving you with a new windows install and new User accounts but an easy way to copy old data back….
As mentioned in other posts I have recently started using Ubuntu on my laptop. As part of getting my self settled with it I needed to duplicate the email sorting rules I had set-up in Thunderbird on my XP PC to Thunderbird on my laptop.
Natively Thunderbird has no function to export or import rules, however someone has written an add-on that will give the necessary functionality.
To get the rules import/export functionality up and running install the “Thunderbird Message Filter Import/Export” add-on with in Thunderbird. You will need to install this on all of the computers you need to import or export filters to or from.
On the computer with the Email sorting rules you need, go to the Tools menu and select “message filters”. On the left hand side of the window you should now have the option to export rules. Click on this and save the file somewhere easy to get to.
You will need to transfer this file to the computer you need to import the rules to – I emailed it to my self then save the attachment on the 2nd computer.
On the computer that you are importing the Rules to go to the Tools menu and select “Import Filters”. Choose the account you want to import the filters to, then click on the “Import” button.
Browse to the file you copied from the 1st machine and Click on Open.
Once done the import has finished you will need to restart Thunderbird.