After a long while of working with very many (too many) instant
messenger clients to chat with coworkers, friends, and antifriends, I
found myself tired of all my communicators. Even iChat had it's drawbacks... huge (did I say huge) fonts, and still only AIM. What is one to do?
Enter Adium X.
An all in one open source chat client that looks amazing on OS X, and
is even nicer to use. Fully customizable, and at least for now, my best
recommendation for a chat client on OS X.
Posted by xtian
@ 08:41 PM EDT
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A recent application I have recently adopted to my mac is the beta of
you control:desktops.
This application offers all the power of workspace switching that I
find on *ix systems, with all the chrome and feel of a new mac. I
love how the tool is integrated into the menu bar, and although I am
still getting adjusted to it, I find myself already relying on it for
my day to day uses.
I will play with it a bit more and give a better accounting of the product. Stay tuned!
Check out the software at:
http://www.yousoftware.com/desktops/
Posted by xtian
@ 07:54 PM EDT
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Yes they are in fact producing
new episodes of
Doctor Who! The first episode is called
Rose and may not make it to the US, but I hope someone picks it up!
Posted by xtian
@ 07:53 PM EDT
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For those of you who have worked with FCKeditor, you may wonder how
to include this growing product in JRoller. Well, it is actually
pretty easy. I'll maintain this site from release to release, if these
instructions do not work for you, please email me, and I will gladly
update them.
Downloading FCKEditor:
- Download the tar archive from http://xtian.stonescape.net/downloads/Fck4Roller.tar
- Unpack the tar archive, which includes the FCKEditor 2.0 RC2 source (FCKeditor), a README, and the JSP file for use.
Installing:
- Copy FCKeditor directory to {roller dir}/editor.
- Copy editor-fckeditor.jsp file to {roller dir}/weblog
- Go to the admin panel within JRoller, and add the new editor to your list.
Configuring:
- In editor-fckeditor.jsp, you can easily change the default height of the editor by changing the following line from the default height of 400px:
- In addition, you can alter the components of the editor by changing the toolbar set. The default set is set to "Roller" in the file editor-fckeditor.jsp. Make the following modifications:
- If you like, alter the name of the toolbar you want to use in file editor-fckeditor.jsp: oFCKeditor.ToolbarSet="Roller";
- Alter the definition of "Roller in the fckconfig.js file located in the FCKeditor folder. I have defined the following:
FCKConfig.ToolbarSets["Roller"] = [
['Source','-','Cut','Copy','Paste','PasteText','PasteWord'],
['Undo','Redo','-','Find','Replace','-','SelectAll','RemoveFormat'],
['Link','Unlink'],
['Bold','Italic','Underline','StrikeThrough','-','Subscript','Superscript'],
['Table','Rule','SpecialChar','Smiley'],
['OrderedList','UnorderedList','-','Outdent','Indent'],
['JustifyLeft','JustifyCenter','JustifyRight','JustifyFull'],
['FontFormat','FontName','FontSize','TextColor']
] ;
I have removed the
Preview, NewPage, Print, Image, Style, BGColor command as they didn't have a lot of meaning for Roller. The one command that is questionable is the
Image command, because I do not know what the policies for upoading and linking on a site are.
Other possible items: the smilies are defaulted in the fckconfig.js
file to use the ones with FCKeditor. You can change the path to load
another set of smilies. The other features, "image browsing", "link
upload", etc. are pretty neat, but depend a lot on the specific site.
If you have any questions, please look at the
FCKeditor message boards, or email me.
Posted by xtian
@ 07:47 PM EDT
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