Pidgin is my instant messaging client of choice. It means my MSN, Gtalk, Yahoo, ICQ and other contacts are all in one place. Today I have taken that to the next level with three new plugins.
Skype Pidgin Plugin
I need to have skype installed and running, but now I can send / receive messages from within [...]
Tag Archives: twitter
Magic pidgins
Posted in Open Source, Techy Also tagged Facebook, facebook chat, off the record messaging, pidgin, pidgin extra prefs, Skype 7 Comments
Follow the Mars landing on twitter
You can follow the mars landing on Twitter. Ain’t that awesome?
Twitter really has become ubiquitous technology. Everyone’s on it. If only they could come out with a revenue model, make some money, hire some more brains, and sort out their reliability issues. On a plus note, they’re recently blogging about failures or outages, [...]
Posted in Fun, Techy Also tagged follow mars landing, mars, mars landing, mars phoenix Leave a comment
Pidgin character count plugin on Fedora
If you’re a pidgin and Twitter user like myself, it’s hard to keep your tweets under 140 characters. Dossy created a character count plugin for this very purpose.
To install on Fedora (and possibly others) simply grab the .deb file Dossy kindly published here. Open the .deb in archive manager. Open the contained data.tar.gz file. Then [...]
Posted in Techy Also tagged character count plugin, dossy, pidgin, pidgin plugins, pidgin twitter plugin 3 Comments
Twitter is borked
It’s taken a while for me to notice, but I don’t get any messages from Twitter any more. I no longer receive SMS notifications, or IM notifications, or anything else for that matter. I just don’t get updates. I’ll probably have to start reading twitter via RSS. Bah.
Apparently this is old news.
I wonder how it [...]
My first Wikipedia article
I just created my first Wikipedia article on Starling, the Ruby persistent queue server that speaks the MemCache protocol. I really know nothing about Starling so if you happen to read this and do know something about it, please go ahead and edit the Wikipedia article!
Free creates social noise
The proliferation of “free” is creating a society in which we are exposed to ever more content. It may seem at a macro level like just more crap on YouTube, but at a micro level it’s more crap our friends are creating, sending, forwarding, spamming. I’m calling this social noise. Crap we are exposed to [...]