Archive for the ‘Messaging’ Category
Blogging and IM with Windows Mobile
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 [...]
Microblogging Clients
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 [...]
In: Messaging · Tagged with: Gnome, identi.ca, Linux, PocketPC, twitter, Ubuntu
Identi.ca status updates from the shell
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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In: Messaging · Tagged with: curl, identi.ca, secure, shell, status
Sync Zimbra Contacts, Calendar and Tasks to your iPod
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 [...]
In: Messaging · Tagged with: calendar, contacts, iPod, Linux, sync, zimbra
Twitter status updates from the shell
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 [...]
