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Since last night I’ve been looking for some simple program to just track how much time I am spending on projects I downloaded quiet a few applications as I really wanted one that wasn’t web based but none of them came close to being as good as 88 miles! This website allows you to add company’s and projects in seconds, so your not wasting time on them and of course then it has a simple clock in clock off interface for each project. Needless to say these guys have got it right and aren’t making you waste any time doing this and that just so you can check how much time your wasting! 
Definitely recommend it! Check it out at 88miles.net ..
Tags: Software, time.
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Windows Live Writer is out of beta and into “Windows Live Writer 2008“. No really amazing new features apart from easier Windows Live Spaces creation. Hopefully some interesting plugins will come out for it on the Wordpress side now! Overall I’m doing all my blogging from Windows Live Writer so I’m happy to see this, who would have known I liked blogging from a program more than the Admin Control Panel! 
Tags: Blogging, Live Writer, Software, Windows.
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Version 3.2 has now been released and you can download it here! Have to say I’m really impressed with Finbarr and the team on this release. I previously interviewed Finbarr Brady which you can read here, however on to what this release contains!
- A Send button - Works a charm, now when I click enter by mistake a message doesn’t send, unless of course I want it to then I can re-enable it in JSMSPreferences.
- Support for Section Dividers in Phone Book - You can now add little micro groups like “Friends” “Work” etc. and your numbers will be organized through this!
- Menubar - Now we have Copy/Cut/Paste options for those of you who don’t know the control keys off by heart! A tools menu, for managing the phone book and what not! And a help menu!
- Lastly, Update Checker - JSMS will now silently check if new releases are available! Handy to say the least! Updates can also be forced manually!
So go download it! Alot of work has obviously been put into this release, the only thing I feel JSMS needs now is a graphical phone book editor, instead of having to do everything via Notepad!
Tags: application, JSMS, release, Software, webtext.
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It’s not often we see a piece of blogging software as unique as Airpress! Based on the Adobe AIR framework its quiet an impressive program, but once again we run into this whole Wordpress 2.3 tagging situation! Still a beautifully designed program though, test it to see the beauty!
Tags: Airpress, Blogging, Software.
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One thing I noticed linux does not have, is a decent SVN client without you having to go through loads of terminal! That is until I found kdesvn! Don’t worry GNOME users, it works on GNOME perfectly fine! The project website is over here, or for Ubuntu users:
sudo apt-get install kdesvn
Could it get any simplier than that? The features, anything you expect of a standard SVN client, without all the dazzle effects!
Tags: Linux, Software, svn.
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So after Tom mentioned ‘Windows Live Writer’ over here, I’ve been meaning to try it for a while, on Monday I installed it, making sure not to automatically set my default search engine and what not, overall a fast install and I got the new version of Windows Live Messenger too! Magic hey?
Overall I think its a brilliant blogging platform, having set it up to auto upload images I insert into a post, my only issue with it now is that it has no support for Wordpress tags, if I modify the Insert Tags.. feature to make it use tags from my website it just shoves them in the bottom and actually doesn’t add them into the database at all! Which means when blogging using this I have to write here, publish then go into my Admin CP edit and add tags. Very pointless! So Windows, the faster you bring out either a plugin or a newer version that can use Wordpress tags, I’m afraid I will not be using you! 
Tags: Blogging, Live Writer, Software, Windows.
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Symphony is a web publishing system made for web developers. It gives you all the power and flexibility you’ll need, while keeping out of your way. Of course it would want to be made for web developers, as the install is a bit of a bitch! Firstly, the way it wants file permissions is just a tad over the top! It wouldn’t install on my local server as I don’t have a required module, however on my Servage Hosting it installed without a bother, well.. That being me playing around with file permissions and getting insane error’s like so:
Then eventually giving up and just setting everything to 777, which doesn’t make me feel too safe, but *shrug* I’m not going to be using it for blogging right now.
As a platform I can definitely see some potential in where it would be useful, its like a simpler version of Joomla, that has an Askimet plugin! :P If you want to try it out there is a demo here. If you want to download it head over to its official website over here. Defiantly worth checking out for most developers / designers, would make a good, simple, CMS. If anyone is using Symphony I’d love to hear from you!
Tags: Software.
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The one thing I find new users of Linux are surprised about is that Skype actually officially support Linux! Now the Linux version is abit behind, being only version 1.4. But its defiantly better than nothing! To download to install you can head over here. Or to do it via apt-get [I’m loving apt-get at the moment ]
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
Add the following to the end of the file:
deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install skype
Presto! You have Skype! Isn’t the command line fun?
Tags: Software.
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aMSN is a free open source MSN Messenger clone. Which is as close to MSN on linux your going to get, it basically has everything, web cam support, Display Pictures, Custom Smileys, Chat Logs, Conferencing and everything else you expect to have on MSN! It can be downloaded from its Project Page here. Its available for Windows and Mac too, why you’d want it who knows? If your running Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install amsn
Simple as that, sometimes you gotta love the simplicity of Ubuntu!
Tags: Software.
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Are you a Linux user? Or maybe just a windows user who wants to support an Open Source application? Then this is what your looking for! Since Google have pretty much left us [the Linux community] out with the Gmail notifier, as well as other Google software, Gmail notify is a Linux alternative of Gmail Notify written in Python. It works just as well as the official one, and really has all the same features, what else could you add hey?
If you are running Ubuntu it can be installed as simply as putting the following into the terminal:
sudo apt-get install gmail-notify
For other users, Windows and any other distro of Linux, you can download from the Sourceforge project page located here!
Tags: Google, Software.
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