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General Software Discussion / Email services integration

« on: April 13, 2012, 03:55 AM »

Anyone knows any software/tips that will integrate my emails with webservices and/or their apis? I'm happy to try out thunderbird addons, gmail addons, new products etc.

I want to easily send emails to other services. For example:
* Weblinks "send to" > pinboard | instapaper
* bug reports and features i can "send to" > helpdesk
* gift ides to a wishlist etc
* recipes "send to" > evernote

And ideally archive the original email in one step.

I thought surely there must be something but haven't found anything, probably because writing a totally new email client is quite a project. Yes I know about gmail filters and email in, I'm looking for "click click done", not "reply type in an addressbook search, verify email address, send, archive".

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: NoteMe

« on: April 10, 2012, 09:11 AM »

Great tip wraith!
Users of Pinboard & NoteMe can quickly send bookmarks to their collection either via wraith's method, or directly, by enabling bookmarking via email.
Or send articles to read later to Instapaper via email-in.

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Living Room / Re: MakeUseOf just lauded three (3) NANY 2012 products ...

« on: April 10, 2012, 05:29 AM »

Woohoo NoteMe love.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: NoteMe

« on: April 10, 2012, 05:27 AM »

Thanks all visitors of MakeUseOf for trying NoteMe! Feel free to give your honest feedback!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Ruby In Steel 2 - Bits du Jour .. goes with Visual Studio Express

« on: April 10, 2012, 03:16 AM »

How is this related to IronRuby?
http://www.ironruby.net/

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General Software Discussion / Re: html alternative

« on: April 09, 2012, 05:42 AM »

Make the page in MSWord as you want it then save it as an html document. It will do what you want although it won't be much of a webpage.
Depending what you want thoughu you're probably better of using something like Weebly or Squarespace and just focus on writing the content instead of doing html.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Text replacement app for Windows?

« on: April 09, 2012, 04:46 AM »

I'm using TyperTask (free, 53Kb!).  It works in many different programs where previously I had some issues with other programs not expanding. It's been a while so I cannot quite remember the details.

Increase your efficiency by automating your keyboard with TyperTask! This tool simulates keyboard typing, and can be used to instantly type common phrases. Use it to automate chat conversations, website logins, programming code blocks, HTML tags, or anything else you can imagine.

It even has advanced automation features, including launching programs, window activation, delays, and mouse clicks, so it's capable of performing complex tasks. Configuration is easy with simple text files. It has vTask's powerful keyboard simulation engine, so it can handle international codes and system keys such as <Control>.

The included help file demonstrates many TyperTask uses. No installation required.

http://www.vtaskstudio.com/support.php

TyperTask will automate your keyboard when a "signal" is typed.
For example, when you type "hth", it will auto type "Hope this helps!"

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General Software Discussion / Re: AllMyApps

« on: April 06, 2012, 02:45 AM »

Thanks Curt that's very useful.

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General Software Discussion / Re: AllMyApps

« on: April 06, 2012, 01:18 AM »

Do you still use this? I noticed you can submit pad files to have your software listed. How is the updating process for software that installs toolbars?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Opinions sought: should I open source Auspex?

« on: April 05, 2012, 04:17 AM »

Is there an existing community that will pick up development? From what I've read, you will simply spend the time stimulating the community around your project instead of developing otherwise.
Just open sourcing a project doesn't make it active.

What about giving yourself an incentive to develop it by making it a commercial product?

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General Software Discussion / Re: reserved characters in NTFS

« on: April 05, 2012, 04:05 AM »

Don't use NTFS. You might be able to mount the partition under linux or boot from something like Hiren's BootCD and rename the offending files.

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DcUpdater / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - DcUpdater - 1.30.01 - Apr 4, 2012

« on: April 04, 2012, 02:36 AM »

Thanks for the update, mouser. What do you mean with not zip-compatible?

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Developer's Corner / Re: EasyGit - Sane syntax for git

« on: April 03, 2012, 04:45 AM »

yep but other people might be using git so it helps to have an easy way to work with it.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Two free books from Microsoft Press - SQL Server 2012 and Office 360

« on: April 01, 2012, 11:15 AM »

ta

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Living Room / Re: Suggestions for guides on all this DNS, CName, A Records stuff

« on: April 01, 2012, 11:07 AM »

You're not saying which guides you have tried so I am going to point you to a good one and hope that it works for you:
http://library.linod.../introduction-to-dns

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Living Room / Google is being suspicious

« on: March 28, 2012, 08:16 AM »

According to google.com!
http://www.google.co...stic?site=google.com

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?
Over the past 90 days, google.com appeared to function as an intermediary for the infection of 28 site(s)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Screenshot Captor... cm vs. in

« on: March 27, 2012, 09:53 AM »

Is there a way to set SC to always capture in inches?      I haven't been able to locate the setting.   

If it can't be set... maybe it could be added to a future update?   

-crabby3 (March 25, 2012, 06:03 AM)

Hi Crabby!
I think what people are saying is that Screencaptor does not decide to capture in inches or milimeters. It is Paint Shop pro that decides to convert the pixels to either inches or milimeters. Maybe someone that knows Paint Shop Pro can help investigate whether that is a setting you can change. Good luck.

So the answers to both your original quetions are no, but maybe with some help you can still get what you want.

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Living Room / Re: Old Hard Drives

« on: March 27, 2012, 03:14 AM »

Put them all in a case and format then as ZFS and some kind of nas box and you will get a self healing, deduplicating, data integrity nas box.

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Developer's Corner / PL101: Create your own programming language in Javascript

« on: March 27, 2012, 03:07 AM »

Free! class you can sign up for by email, this sounds really interesting.

In this class you will learn how to use the principles of programming language design to implement your own working programming language in JavaScript. You'll be able to show off the finished product to your friends and prospective employers on a simple demo webpage.

http://nathansuniversity.appspot.com/

from hckrnews.com

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Developer's Corner / Re: EasyGit - Sane syntax for git

« on: March 26, 2012, 08:38 AM »

(Easy) GIT for SVN users ...showing that (easy) git is easier to use overall than subversion
http://people.gnome....t-for-svn-users.html

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Developer's Corner / Re: EasyGit - Sane syntax for git

« on: March 26, 2012, 08:36 AM »

From what I heard people have been using it for a few years, it's robust, stable and doesn't mess with git commands But I just found out today haha.

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Developer's Corner / EasyGit - Sane syntax for git

« on: March 26, 2012, 08:23 AM »

A better commandline interface for git! The primary reason why I have been using mercurial over git is that mercurial is so much higher level and logical to understand. But with EasyGit the commands are almost identical:

In short, Easy GIT is a single-file wrapper script for git, designed to make git easy to learn and use.

(Run 'eg help --all' for a more detailed list.)

Creating repositories
  eg clone       Clone a repository into a new directory
  eg init        Create a new repository

Obtaining information about changes, history, & state
  eg diff        Show changes to file contents
  eg log         Show history of recorded changes
  eg status      Summarize current changes

Making, undoing, or recording changes
  eg commit      Record changes locally
  eg mv          Move or rename files (or directories or symlinks)
  eg revert      Revert local changes and/or changes from previous commits
  eg stage       Mark content in files as being ready for commit

Managing branches
  eg branch      List, create, or delete branches
  eg merge       Join two or more development histories (branches) together
  eg switch      Switch the working copy to another branch

Collaboration
  eg pull        Get updates from another repository and merge them
  eg push        Push local commits to a published repository

Time saving commands
  eg bisect      Find the change that introduced a bug by binary search
  eg stash       Save and revert local changes, or apply stashed changes

Additional help:
  eg help COMMAND      Get more help on COMMAND.
  eg help --all        List more commands (not really all)
  eg help topic        List specialized help topics.

(Detailed list of differences between eg and git)

http://people.gnome.org/~newren/eg/

from HackerNews

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General Software Discussion / Simple outgoing email system PART8

« on: March 26, 2012, 06:05 AM »

Let's get a working outgoing email system working next.
If you want to set it up like me you will require a gmail.com mail account, but you should be able to adapt this to any existing email setup pretty easily.

We will setup a simple satellite system using postfix and then send an email using mutt. Let's install mutt (which installs postfix)

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sudo apt-get install mutt

Now the postfix setup wizard starts. If you want to reconfigure postfix at a later date you can run sudo dpkg-reconfigure postfix

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Type of mail server : Satellite System
Mail Name : example.org (the name you want on your outbound mail)
SMTP relay host : smtp.gmail.com
Postmaster : blank
Other destinations : blank
Synchronous Queues : no
Network blocks to allow relay : default
Mailbox size : default
Local address : default
Listen Address : all

We will need to enable TLS and passwords out outgoing connections next:

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cp /etc/postfix/main.cf ~/backup
sudo nano /etc/postfix/main.cf

Add the following lines at the end of the file:

Code: Text [Select]

1. smtp_use_tls = yes
2. smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
3. smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
4. smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
5. smtp_sasl_tls_security_options = noanonymous

Create the sasl_password file by running the following (substitute username and password)

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echo "smtp.gmail.com [email protected]:password" | sudo tee /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd

Apply the configuration:

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sudo postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd && sudo service postfix restart

Send a test email using mutt and press m for a new mail. Follow the wizard then press y to send. You should receive the mail momentarily.

That's everything I can imagine up and running, so you can now install whatever system you want I'll be playing about with a few projects and post more when I have settled on a system. Feedback is always welcome.

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General Software Discussion / passwordless logon (PART 7)

« on: March 25, 2012, 10:43 AM »

Passwordless logon

In windows, start PuttyGen, click Generate.
Enter a Key Passphrase and remember it - otherwise you won't be able to login.
If you plan on storing it on Dropbox so that you can use it from another location, please install BoxCryptor first. It will create a new driveletter for an encrypted dropbox folder that only you can read. You can securely store private keys there.

Save the public key as hostname.pub and your private key as hostname.ppk (never allow anyone to copy this).
Double click on your hostname.ppk and enter the passphrase to import the private key.
Copy your public key into your ubuntu home directory (that's why we have setup samba!).

create the folder holding your ssh keys:

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mkdir ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -i -f hostname.pub > ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Now. close any putty sessions.
Load up your connection and navigate to Connection > SSH > Auth > Browse (under Authentication parameters) and select your private key.
Under Connection > Data > "Auto login username" you can enter your username to completely automate login.

Don't forget to go back to Session and save the changes. Now login. If everything works you should not have to enter your password.

Optionally, we can now disable logging in via password. You can still login to your system using the Ubuntu login screen if you ever lose your keys.

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cp /etc/ssh/sshd_config ~/backup
sudo /etc/ssh/sshd_config && sudo service ssh restart

Search for PasswordAuthentication and change it from yes to no
Search for UsePAM and change it from yes to no

Verify you cannot login without a key, using the windows command prompt:

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ssh <user>@<hostname> -p 2222

Accept the host certificate.
enter a password, you should receive:

Permission denied (publickey).

Congratulations, your logins are now secure and more convenient.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Setting up static blog (based on movable type) / vm / local development system

« on: March 25, 2012, 10:09 AM »

SAMBA

You will want to install the following software it:
* WinSCP - FTP / SSH file manager, to manage your files over SSH (http://winscp.net/eng/index.php)

Although it's convenient to use WinSCP to access your linux files, in other situations you will want to manipulate them as if they're just another windows network share, so you can use the context menu, edit files in your favourite editor etc. For this we need to setup a Samba File Server.

For a complete guide and more background information, bookmark the Ubuntu Documentation.
https://help.ubuntu....amba-fileserver.html

Tip:
I recommend that if at all possible, your windows username and password and ubuntu's user and password are identical. This will transparently authenticate you to samba. Otherwise you will have to enter your username and password once each session. Not a big problem.

Install Samba and libpam-smbpass. The latter will sync your linux login credentials with samba's (shares can have their own username and password):

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sudo apt-get install samba libpam-smbpass

Let's create a stripped samba configuration and edit it:

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cd /etc/samba
cp smb.conf ~/backup
sudo mv smb.conf smb.conf.master
testparm -s smb.conf.master | sudo tee smb.conf
sudo nano smb.conf && sudo restart smbd && sudo restart nmbd

Delete the [printers] and [print$] sections completely.

Then at the end of [global] add:

Code: Text [Select]

1. security = user
2.         encrypt passwords = true
3.  
4. [homes]
5.         comment = Home Directories
6.         browseable = yes
7.         valid users = %S
8.         read only = no

This exposes user's home directories and will let only those users access them.

The following might not be necessary, but I've had a bit of trouble with incorrect credentials being saved before, so just to be on the safe side we will turn off the VM:

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sudo poweroff

Close the VM. Reboot your windows pc, and restart the VM again.

Try browsing to \\<server>\<username> (in my case: \\devvy\sander) . In your home directory, create a new text document with a few words. Now in the SSH session list the contents of the folder it is in:

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ls -al ~

If everything is working correctly the username that owns the textfile is your linux user. This means you will not have any strange permission issues later on.

Congrats you can now read and write to your home directory.