Keyboard Cuff Links

Very cool and a must-have for the serious geek: cuff links made from old laptop keyboard keys.



Check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/made_by_beag/3190527863/ for some more shots.

Gimmie update

Thanks to James and Alex, Gimmie 0.2.4 is now working on openSUSE. Pretty soon Gimmie will be part of GNOME and part of openSUSE 10.3 factory.

Gimmie

E@zyVG: Gimmie is an elegant way to think about how you use your desktop computer.Gimmie is a new concept of the panel designed to shift the direction of the desktop beyond the standard WIMP model (Windows, Icons, Menu, Pointer) towards one directly representing the concepts that modern desktop users use every day. It is being considered for inclusion in Project Topaz (a.k.a. Gnome 3.0)

Once it added to the panel you should see the following screen:

More on this

earlier Moosy posts abouty Gimmie: [juli 06, feb 06]

If we combine Gimmie with the new GNOME 3.0 features, Tango, Compiz the new GUI can look like this mock-up. (click image to zoom)

Gimmie

Here are some of the latest slides on Gimmie.
Cool new ideas about navigation on the desktop, if you’re looking to understand a little more behind where Gimmie is headed.
http://www.beatniksoftware.com/gimmie/Guadec06Slides2.pdf

Gimmie

Alex Graveley released Gimmie 0.1.1
http://www.beatniksoftware.com/gimmie/

more moosy about Gimmie

demo

GNOME Conference 2006

GUADEC started this weekend (warm-up weekend).

To name a few of the speakers and there sessions:
The Tomboy guy, (Alex) is talking about Gimmie.
Larry Ewing is talking about F-Spot
Joe Shaw about his puppy, Beagle
Mister Meeks is doing an OOO pitch
Robert Love about Network Manager
Lluis and Miguel talk about mono

We could not attend this year, but try to follow stuff via the web.
Here you can find the complete agenda.

We like Gimmie

Alex just submitted a GUADEC talk proposal for Gimmie.
We sure like the idea.

I can imagine Gimmie in a 3d, xgl style look.

Gimmie

Don't you hate it, having all these apps open with per app. several windows.

Alex Graveley (The tomboy guy) is working on a cool new task switcher, menu system for the Linux desktop.

http://www.beatniksoftware.com/gimmie/


click the image for a screencast

Moosy loves Tomboy

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Tomboy is one of the need little toys that comes with SUSE Linux 10, and we love it. (your own personal wiki)
And..Beagle is doing a good job in indexing and finding the notes.

To start Tomboy, add Tomboy notes to your GNOME panel.

I use Tomboy for meeting notes, ideas and other.
In version 0.3.3 we now can export our notes (including links) to HTML. (what's new)
Because the notes we create are business critical, we decided to move our
Tomboy datastore to our ifolder.
Howto:
1.) Move you /home/user/.tomboy directory to your ifolder directory. (/data/ifolder)

2.) create a symbolic link
ln -s /data/ifolder/.tomboy /home/moosy

or using rsync
rsync -trv /home/moosy/.tomboy/* servername:/backup/.tomboy

The Tomboy team has some cool ideas of integration
with appointments, tasks and todo item. (Evolution)
(there is a Tomboy note of the day plugin available here)

















Things I like to see improved:
- Outline, bullets
- Templates (meeting note, phone call etc.)
- export plugin for OpenOffice format

Tomboy is a project from Alex Graveley,

Alex Graveley is/was a Ximian Hacker Monkey.
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