Adding Twitter to Pidgin February 7th, 2010

My friend Steven was raving about a plugin that adds support for the Twitter protocol to the Pidgin instant messenger. I’ve used a lot of other Twitter clients, but this is neat because it fits in with all my other instant messaging protocols.

It would be nice if there was a PPA on Launchpad that offered this, but I don’t have the time to do that, so I just grabbed the source from SVN and did a checkinstall on it for my 64-bit system. Heres the package:

libpurple-twitter-protocol_0.20-1_amd64.deb (70 kB)

nautilus-open-terminal backport for Jaunty August 11th, 2009

Remote TerminalI am addicted to the “Open Terminal” plugin for Nautilus. I have a lot of different SFTP bookmarks and mounts, and I always want to open an SSH terminal using the menu. However, anyone using Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04) knows that it’ll crash the file browser, which is a serious bummer.

I’ve backported the package from the upcoming Karmic release:

Note: This backport was made before Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) was release, and a newer backport is probably available now. Check your repository first.

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