Comments on: Tracking Dementia

By: C. Ovidiu

C. Ovidiu — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:19:51 +0000

I’m not familiar with Eudora. Thunderbird seems pretty good to me…

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:36:45 +0000

Heh. I suppose. Actually, I don’t do any email under Ubuntu. From some reason I do that all on Windows or OS X. Eudora rules (and yes I know Thunderbird is soon going to benefit from integrated dev efforts).

By: C. Ovidiu

C. Ovidiu — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:01:02 +0000

Well. At least you can run Thunderbird… I hope. :D

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:53:12 +0000

I was going to try this on an i386 machine just to learn how easy/hard it is, but Beryl is unavailable for Dapper which effectively ends my quest.

On the other hand, Murrine is not available for my x86_64 so it looks like I’ll have to shop elsewhere.

By: C. Ovidiu

C. Ovidiu — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:24:41 +0000

The GTK+ theme (the theme for the controls inside the window) is Murrina Neo Graphite, the icons theme is Tangerine (comes with Ubuntu). Here's another look. I have Beryl installed. That gives me window shadows, loads of window effects (the windows wabble and turn semi-transparent when you move them, the functionality of MacOS' Exposé is duplicated etc), the 3D desktop of course and another window manager (the engine that paints the window caption) called Emerald. The Emerald theme I use is a custom one. I customized it myself from an existing theme (I don't remember exactly which one :)).

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:58:09 +0000

Which Ubuntu theme is that? I’ve not seen one that looked so nice before. While I like Ubuntu for many things, the default themes leave something to be desired.

By: C. Ovidiu

C. Ovidiu — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:47:39 +0000

I use Thunderbird for the RSS feeds. I think it's pretty cool. I have Thunderbird running non-stop, so I get notifications when new stuff is avaiable (email messages or RSS posts).

By: Csiki Andy

Csiki Andy — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:27:20 +0000

Cheers. I’ll start playing around with the two options.

By: Romer!can

Romer!can — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:18:35 +0000

Yeah, I’m not too hip on web-based RSS readers. The only benefit for the type seems to be if you need to check many RSS feeds, but you’re always using a new, strange computer each time. That’s an unrealistic scenario for me. With web aggregators, I’d lose my privacy and take a big speed hit for literally no gain whatsoever. So, I like to use the capabilities of Firefox and keep things local.

The default method for RSS in Firefox works well enough. When you’re at a website which has an RSS feed, such as this very page, you will note in the address bar (for others, see where it says http://romerican.com/2007/01/17/tracking-dementia/ up there?) you will note a little square RSS icon appears to the right (sometimes orange, sometimes blue). Clicking that brings up Firefox’s built in RSS feed mechanism, which essentially stores feeds as book marks. It works great for many people.

I, on the other hand, find things far more intuitive and much better organized if I use the Sage RSS extension for Firefox. Once installed, you go to any site and click the little magnifying glass which causes Sage to find all available feeds for the site (many sites have multiple feeds). Generally, I’ll select the “RSS 2.0″ feed as opposed to some other version and it’s added to my list. I can also export my list for safekeeping, which I like very much. Hail the magic of Sage!

By: Csiki Thicky

Csiki Thicky — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:51:23 +0000

Ummm… I am using firefox, but am not sure how the browser helps one to keep up withn RSS feeds – I would be grateful for a tip. It would be good to have something embedded in the browser to do it for me, rather than visiting a site which keeps track of them for me.