I have created a playlist on youtube to easily follow newly added videos that involves foresight linux.
That will make everything easier for all of you to see new videos and find them on youtube.
The playlist at youtube is available here: Foresight Linux playlist
Will also continue to add all videos at: http://www.foresightlinux.se/videos/
Most of the videos will also be available in Foresight Linux android app.
Made another video that shows how to make a bootable usb stick with the package called blastbits.
Requirements:
See the video: here or in this embedded video
It’s still under editing, as few seconds at the start and at the end will be removed. But it’s available and you can watch it.
A video how to use rollback and offline rollback in Foresight.
We have managed to sign up an unique offer for all our readers, specially our foresight linux users.
A little background:
Buzztouch is open source, flexible, powerful, and professional web-based software that powers tens of thousands of iPhone,
iPad and Android applications. The Buzztouch platform enables developers to create mobile applications (“apps”) and manage dynamic content within existing apps. It is used in conjunction with the iOS and Android software developer kits (SDK’s). Founded in 2009 by IT entrepreneur David Book, Buzztouch is used by more than 175,000 people worldwide. Buzztouch headquarters are located in Monterey California.
If you signed up, you become a free member. It has some limitation for making apps and so on.
Usually it costs $79.99 to become a buzztouch Member. Today Buzztouch offer users to sign up with a discount of $30 with a promo code: million.
But for all of you guys, we give you a discount of $40 instead. An unique offer for all of you.
When you have created an account and logged in. You go to your account and there you can become a Buzztouch member.
You need to use this promo/promotion code before you accept the payment. The promo code is: foresight
So you get over 50% with our unique offer.
And this is only for a limited time only, so you need to apply for buzztouch member before 9 may 2013.
calcurse is a text-based calendar and scheduling application. It helps keep track of events, appointments and everyday tasks. A configurable notification system reminds user of upcoming deadlines, and the curses based interface can be customized to suit user needs. All of the commands are documented within an online help system.
Important features
- fast and customizable curses-based interface
- powerful non-interactive command line interface that can be used by scripts
- user-definable key bindings
- fully user-configurable notification system (ability to send mails or anything else that could remind you of your upcoming appointments)
- moon phases calculation
- import capabilities with support for iCalendar format
- export capabilities with support for iCalendar and pcal formats
- ability to attach notes to each calendar element, and to edit them with your favorite text editor
- support for internationalization with texts translated in English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Italian
- complete online help system
- UTF-8 support
At this moment, this application is only available in foresight development label. To install it, open terminal and write:
sudo conary install calcurse=foresight.rpath.org@fl:2-devel
Hello everyone, I just made a video and uploaded on youtube. hopefully it will make it little easier to understand what conary actually can do and how it can help you if you break your system someday.
This is my first video and more to come, also the quality will improve with time. So will my voice. As this was on the go…..
Hopefully it’s still useful for some users, so please add a comment here or youtube to let me know it’s useful. Will keep my going.
youtube link: Foresight Linux information
Also I edited it a bit at the beginning, so it won’t show the terminal when it’s done at youtube. But might show now, as it’s newly added.
Managed to get one from my work and will be able to test it in Foresight Linux.
After plugged it in and checked in terminal:
Bus 002 Device 025: ID 12d1:1506 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
My laptop finds it and want to set it up.
So do 2G, 3G or 4G work? I can’t tell yet, waiting for my 4G simcard to arrive. So those testing need to wait for a bit longer.
Always nice to see it actually finds it without any issues, as I have read some threads that E3276 won’t even start in some Linux OS. But that is not a problem in Foresight.
Stay tuned, will write about some testing for 2G, 3G and 4G in near future.
Wrote earlier about Google reader alternatives, where you use a service on the internet.
Now it’s time to test some google reader alternatives with running a own server to provide it.
Starting with random order, and some conclusion about the best one at the bottom.
A web-based RSS/RDF/ATOM feed aggregator, designed to run on your web server, allowing you to access your news sources from wherever you want. Got plugins as default and possible to enable more plugins if needed from third party.
Been awhile since they updated Gregarius, and the plugins I found was several years old too. When going to their page, you only get to HTTP Server Test Page. So I got some hard time to recommend this one, as it seems it’s abandoned. But still looked really nice and very easy to navigate on it. Coulden’t find any Android app in Google play.
From scratch, it doesn’t look something anyone want to use. It’s seems very simple and hard to understand where to change settings.
After added planet.foresightlinux.org, it didn’t show anything inside it. Usually rss feeds shows unread posts from start, when added a new rss site. So I’m not even sure if it was added correctly. Seems it’s recommended for the more advanced users. Very active development in git. Coulden’t find any Android app in Google play.
Very fast and easy-to-use class, written in PHP, that puts the “simple” back into “really simple syndication”. When installed it, you can fetch rss feeds directly. Hard to see where admin page is, hard to actually add a rss feed and save it.
I’m not even sure it’s possible from a pure installation. I think this one is too hard for beginners and I won’t bother to show a screenshot from it. There is some screenshots on their webpage you can look at though. Coulden’t find any Android app in Google play.
A news aggregator allows you to subscribe to news sources and have new items collected together on a single page. The newest items appear at the top, and you can mark old news items read. <—- That information should be obvious, just that makes me wonder how simple is this rss feed? The latest release version was 0.5, was released December 2007. Latest change in the code was made 23 May 2011.
I did add planet.foresightlinux.org but nothing appeared and it said it worked fine to add that feed. Probably needs to add the whole feed including the feed file path. But I won’t bother to add any more testing about this service, as probably nobody will use it anyway.
And I won’t bother to search on Google play to see if there is an app for it, as I asume there isn’t one.
Web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.
Now we are talking, a great layout and easy to navigate and found what you are looking for. Possible to activate API in settings to use Android app for Tiny Tiny RSS. It’s free to download and it’s a trial version of 7 days. To unlock the Android app after 7 days costs $2 dollars. It’s worth it, no doubt about it. Possible to use it as offline mode too, great to download feeds before going somewhere where you don’t have any internet connection from your mobile phone.
Possible to import feeds from google reader takeout. Many plugins as default and users can enable them if they want. There is a chrome/Chromium plugin too, but only a way to open the webpage quickly. tt-rss Released : 04-04-2013 . Still very active both on the service and the Android app.
The best one is Tiny Tiny RSS, not doubt about it. Has everything you need + more. Very easy to setup and get going. Possible to have it on your Android phone as an app. Looks like there is no Iphone app for the moment.
We will use at www.foresightlinux.se, so if you are looking for trying out Tiny Tiny RSS then we can help you setup an account for you to be able to use it. We are not planning to shut it down in the future, so the tt-rss is here to stay.
Take contact with Tomas Forsman (TForsman) in #foresight on freenode with irc or through e-mail and I will setup an account for you to use Tiny Tiny RSS from foresightlinux.se
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Start with going to: http://www.jolicloud.com/
It will automatically ask you to install the chrome/chromium extension. Just do it and start it from a new tab, where you usually see chrome web store icon.
Start it, and create an account. It will look like this:
Start to enable your services and link them to Jolicloud. Facebook, Google+ and alot more are available too.
Off course you can play yotube videos directly inside Jolicloud and see dropbox pictures directly inside jolidrive.
This is a good way to have many services in one place. Makes everything a little easier.
I recommend this service, as you can easily browse box, dropbox and google drive in one place. Maybe you don’t use all of those services, but there is other services you can enable for your needs. This jolicloud review is more like showing what it is and what can do.
Everyone knows about this:
We have just announced on the Official Google Blog that we will soon retire Google Reader (the actual date is July 1, 2013). We know Reader has a devoted following who will be very sad to see it go. We’re sad too.
Wrote earlier about Google reader alternatives for servers, where you use a own server for the rss feeds. Now it’s time to look at services on the internet.
Been testing alot of different rss feed readers, most of them lacks some features i’m looking for.
Like NewsBlur, Netvibes, Feedly, Pulse, The Old Reader, Skimr, Rolio, Smashingreader and BazQux.
Due to overwhelming demand, free accounts are temporarily suspended.
By going premium you get full access to NewsBlur.
This means you have to pay right away to use it. But ignore it and you still get the free account. It doesn’t have any plugin for chrome/Chromium. Only app available and that only starts the web service.
Has mobile app for android and iphone, but missing a good chrome extension for the service. There is an old one from 17 december 2009. But seems only be able to add new feeds to Netvibes, nothing else. That seems useless for me though. If you don’t care about chrome extension, then this is a good service to use as rss feeds. Got a similar plugin for Firefox too. Very easy to navigate on the site.
Has android and iphone app for free. Has a working chrome extension, but not perfectly made. Not yet. As you click on the icon, you go directly to the feedly page, but shows unread feeds as number though.
The only feeds worth looking at, is Feedly, Newsblur, Netvibes and The old reader. And if you are looking for an android app + chrome extension, then feedly is the one to pick for now. That’s the only one that prvides everything for the moment.
Many users has come to the same conclusion that Feedly is the best one for the moment.