Flexion.Org Blog » Messaging http://blog.flexion.org Bad grammar and typos for total strangers Tue, 15 May 2012 10:12:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Blogging and IM with Windows Mobile http://blog.flexion.org/2009/10/07/blogging-and-im-with-windows-mobile/ http://blog.flexion.org/2009/10/07/blogging-and-im-with-windows-mobile/#comments Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:31:13 +0000 Martin http://blog.flexion.org/?p=278

This morning I find myself waiting around for a few hours with only my Windows Mobile phone for company. I wanted to IM some guys at work, but we use Jabber. A quick Google and I found Parlingo, a free multi protocol IM client for Windows Mobile. Perfect!

After having a quick IM with work I was so impressed with Parlingo I wanted to blog about it. Another quick Google and I had Travelling Blogger installed, a free Windows Mobile blog client that supports the WordPress API.

This blog post is the result :-)

  • http://www.palringo.com
  • http://darrenjohnstone.net/travelling-blogger/
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I have recently discovered the world of microblogging, and I am hooked :-)

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve tested a few microblogging clients. On my Ubuntu workstations I started out using Twitux, then switched to Thwirl after figuring out how to get Adobe AIR 1.5 installed on Ubuntu. However, when I started using Identi.ca I switch to Gwibber which is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It supports Twitter, Jaiku, Identi.ca, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, and RSS. Although billed a beta quality software I have found it to be very stable.

For my sins I have a Windows Mobile XDA phone and have found ceTwit to be a most excellent Twitter client for my phone.

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I am getting to like this micro blogging thing and having figured out how to update Twitter status via the shell I thought I do the same for Identi.ca. The solution is practically identi.cal, see what I did there ;-) 

curl -u username:password -d status="Your message here" -k https://identi.ca/api/statuses/update.xml
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We use Zimbra at work for email, contacts, calendaring, etc. I have long since got Zimbra syncing with Thunderbird and my phone, I love it. At the weekend I was updating the music library on my iPod Nano (2nd Gen) and noticed I had hidden the Contact and Calendar menu entries. I decided to see if I could get my iPod Contacts and Calendar synced with Zimbra, it turned out to be very simple :-)

In the examples below replace ‘username’ and ‘password’ with you Zimbra user credentials. Obviously use the URL to your Zimbra server and replace ‘/media/IPOD’ with where your Linux distribution has mounted your iPod.

wget https://username:password@your.zimbraserver.tld/zimbra/home/username/contacts.vcf -O /media/IPOD/Contacts/contacts.vcf
wget https://username:password@your.zimbraserver.tld/home/username/Calendar -O /media/IPOD/Calendars/calendar.ics
wget https://username:password@your.zimbraserver.tld/home/username/Tasks -O /media/IPOD/Calendars/tasks.ics
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I updated my wiki script (Yawki) earlier, it now produces an RSS 2.0 feed and notifies Twitter when I add or edit a wiki page.

Yawki is a 30k shell script so I needed to find I way to notify Twitter via the shell. A little Googling later and I had the answer :-) 

curl -u yourusername:yourpassword -d status="Your Message Here" -k https://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

You will receive a response containing the XML coding for your post which acts as a confirmation that your post was submitted. So, you might want to append…

>& /dev/null

…so you can discard the output. If you want to be fancy, check $? to see whether it’s nonzero ;-)

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When I setup the mail server at work I picked Zimbra, it’s great. Today Zimbra just got a bit better when I found Zindus.

Zindus is open-source software and runs on all Thunderbird platforms including Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. Zindus can sync your contacts between Zimbra and Thunderbird. It syncs everything from Address Books to your GAL (Global Address List). It currently supports ZCS 3.x to 5.x.

Adding the Lightning and Zindus add-ons to Thunderbird create a very complete desktop client to Zimbra for any platform. Can’t wait to share to good news with my Outlook users ;-)

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For the longest time I have been meaning to setup a shared calendar for my wife I and to use. You see, like most men I have no idea when and where I am supposed to be. This is because my wifes keep all this information in her filofax and that lives in her handbag, somewhere I never venture ;-)

So I have spent this evening setting up PHP iCalendar on Lighttpd, and I am very happy with the results.

I have opted to use the publish.php add-on provided with PHP iCalendar, rather than add the WebDAV module to Lighty. For our modest requirements it works very well. We now have full read/write access to our calendar by using the Lightning extension for Thunderbird and read only access via the PHP iCalendar web interface. Viewing the calendar via the web interface requires a login first and the calendar publishing is protected by Lighty authentication using htdigest.

Lastly, because our calendar is a nice open standard I have options as to how I might sync it with my mobile phone. More on that when I figure it out :-)

I have put some rough notes on how I set up PHP iCalendar on my wiki.

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