Entries Tagged 'Sites' ↓

Now I can post to my twitter account from emacs (my favorite editor). Just install twit.el and you are ready to post to twitter, check recent tweets, etc. Download the twit.el file to some directory in your home dir (I have it in my .emacs.d directory) and then add the following line to your .emacs file present in your home directory.

(load-file "/path/to/twit.el")

After doing it and restart your emacs, just press M-x and twit-post and type in whatever you want to and press enter. It will then ask your twitter id and password - which gets saved for the entire emacs session. It is a very basic authentication and is not secure.

By the way, FSLog too has a twitter feed. You can follow this feed to get updates when I post here. Thanks to Srid for this tip.

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NRCFOSS has released a online tamil language learning tutorial called Arichuvadi. It is nicely thought out which has the english version of a sentence with its equivalent in written tamil and spoken tamil. All the voices are in ogg format. They now have partial alphabets in 3 languages. People can also come forward and add lessons.

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Blogrush is a new traffic exchange program which promises to bring in targetted reader to your blogs. All you have to do is register for the program and you get a widget that can be pasted on your blog. Everytime a visitor visits your blog a credit is added to your account - which means that your blog will be showed on other blogs. The interesting thing about this is there is a great affiliate program which goes down to 10 tiers deep. Early adopters of this program are sure of benefiting from the exponential growth.

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After Infogami and Reddit, Aaron Swartz has a new startup called Jottit along with Simon Carstensen under bitbots.net. It is similar to Infogami and is a plain vanilla wiki. You can easily create a page for yourself by visiting the site and typing out some content. You will be given a random page which you can claim later and also change to a sub-domain. It is written using web.py - and excellent python web framework. I wonder what will be business model for this and whether it will be able to stand up against spammers who brought down Infogami.

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The Open Source Advocate has a thorough usability analysis of Ubuntu and tells us what makes it “ready to use” for us. He takes each step for completing an operation and categorizes them into Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard and Very Hard. He also explains what can be made to improve the user experience.

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I got mail about a nice website called in pictures from Chris Charuhas. It is a nice site having tutorials about using Office, OpenOffice.org, Dreamweaver, etc.

The interesting part of this is that it is fully based on pictures. All the tutorials have nice explanations with screenshots explaining how to do every step. They are easy to understand and I would like to see more such tutorials for other open source softwares. Their press release says that they would bring in more tutorials for programming languages like PHP, Perl, etc. I would also like to see tutorials for other applications like Gimp, Evolution, etc., for the normal user.

Maybe this mode of teaching will help bring in more people to FOSS world.

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Elephants Dream is a movie made using open source tools for production. It is done primarily using Blender which is a great open source tool for making 3D modelling and animation. You can download the movie in various qualities and it can be viewed in VLC Media Player or MPlayer. The project files are also released under the Creative Commons License.

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Here’s an Unofficial Python Tutorial which is wiki containing the documentation of the Python language. Changes and comments made here will be used to improve the official tutorial over at python.org.

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Here is a nice site found via Reddit which has a collection of many websites and tools which can be used by web designers. This is really a nice handbook for web designers and I need to learn a lot from these sites.
web+designers, web, websites

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This site in the Python Wiki is devoted to various tips and tricks that can be used to improve the performance of your Python programs. There are various tips right from sorting, string concatenation, looping, profiling, etc. Nice site to go for when you are refactoring the program.

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