So I was using Tomboy the other day when I realized how weird it was. All of a sudden it was not posting to my blog and it just quit each time I tried to post a particular note. I tried so hard to figure out what the culprit was. It was “>” (or the greater than symbol) I used that character to draw an arrow of sorts on my blog entry.

Apparently it won’t post a note with that character. I am not sure why. I am not sure what is a good work around if you do need to post a blog entry with that character.  Maybe it didn’t post because it was something used in HTML?  I should probably read up on bug reports to find out if other characters will make posting to a blog problematic.  In any case, just avoid it so you won’t experience what I did.

Another thing is that you can’t post links with link text to other articles through Tomboy. You will end up posting with the entire URL showing. So using this as a blogging client works best if you will work mainly with text.

Another nifty thing you could do with Tomboy: Synchronize your notes with another computer via Dropbox

tomboy and dropbox

I know I’ve blogged about Dropbox before because it’s one of the nicest things I’ve encountered in the past year. If you haven’t tried Dropbox yet, maybe the fact that you could synchronize your Tomboy notes on Dropbox will help you appreciate it more?

starrynote.com’s guide to using Tomboy with Dropbox will teach you how easy and awesome it is to do that. Of course it requires you to have a Dropbox account as well as Tomboy installed on your computer.

If you know of other ways to use Tomboy, maybe you could comment and share them here. Or trackback to this blog entry. Thanks and have great time using Tomboy.

Post from: New Linux User

• Tweetdeck
  
  Interestingly enough this seems to have a lot of nifty features. One of them is creating groups of people to follow, manage conversations with @ replies and direct messages, manage multiple Twitter accounts, view photo thumbnails from Tweetdeck, avoiding Twitter spam via the Spam button.
• Twhirl
  
  This runs on Adobe Air. You could find it easier to use this to connect to your Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and Seesmic accounts plus cross-post your updates via ping.fm to boot. This also allows searching of tweets via Twitter Search and Tweet Scan.
• Choqok
  
  Choqok is the KDE microblogging client and it currently supports laconi.ca and twitter. It supports multiple accounts too. One nice thing for those who prefer keyboard shortcuts to launch this: Ctrl + Meta + T does the trick.

I’m more of a GNOME user so I might have not been posting much KDE apps here but I am glad that this blog entry pointed out one KDE app for Twitter. I wouldn’t know about it if not for this. It seems that Choqok is still relatively new so it looks like interesting to follow if you’re a KDE user.

May you find a good Twitter client for you to use!

Post from: New Linux User

I might have written about Workrave before but typing breaks are important to everyone so this tip is something you must have. You could set your keyboard typing breaks in Gnome by going to the Preferences menu and selecting Keyboard. One of the tabs under the Keyboard preferences is dedicated to typing breaks. There will be no fancy pop-ups for microbreaks but you will have this bar on your panel to help you see when you need a break. When it’s time, you should see the screen getting an overlay of gray and the number of minutes of your break. You could also postpone breaks as needed. Not everyone really checks on these preferences because during the time of installation, users already pick their preferred keyboard layout. I only found out about this because I’ve been looking at options with regards to changing my keyboard layout from QWERTY to Dvorak.

Simple? Yes. If you already know the hand, shoulder and neck exercises you need, you could opt to use this instead of Workrave.

Post from: New Linux User