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I am trying out Blogilo to post this article right now. It’s a little like Microsoft Live Writer from what the description boasts. When I loaded it I noticed that it’s a KDE based application and you have to set up KDE Wallet. No big deal, but a little annoying I guess.

I would have used BloGTK orginally however in recent times it seems some of the packages that are required to run it are no longer available under Lucid. the gtkhtml2 package I believe is what is was screaming about. Something that gPodder also uses for show notes but it seems to work fine without it.

One thing that is nifty about this application is that it can pull your style sheet from the server so when you preview it within the application it gives you an idea of what it will look like on the site. Really nifty.

I think I may use this to post things. Testing it out more. I even have added an image to see if it will upload it and post properly.

Note: This post went up fine. Just the time zone difference caused it to be late so I editted the time. And it seems the image was not formatted right. Probably something I missed. I may be using the application more in the future!

I like docks. I know it’s kind of a Mac thing, but I prefer a dock over icons all over the desktop. To me icons on the desktop are almost like drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa. It ruins the artwork of the desktop.

So I installed Cairo Dock. Cairo-Dock is an animated application launch bar for the desktop, comparable to the dock in Mac OS X or Rocket Dock (for Windows). I trimmed out the task tray (still want to use my panel at the moment. But I added a few of the things I use frequently and of course Second Life was added as well. I just wanted to get things off my desktop as far as the icons. Want to add this to your machine? Read on!

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Ok so I haven’t updated in a few days. I have been really busy. Both with family and work.  So let’s give a run down of what I have done under Linux for these  two days. It may not seem like much but I can only do so much within my schedule. SO !

Basically aside from some more installations, I have begun organizing things. Read on for the recap of the past couple of days!

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So today I played a little with Bit-Torrent using Transmission, which comes with Ubuntu. It’s pretty cut and dry. I went to a site I know has a torrent download and when I clicked on the link to download the torrent FireFox gave me the option to open it with Transmission, check!

When Transmission opened I chose where to save the download and voila torrent downloading.  Simple.

While waiting for the torrent to do it’s thing I moved some files from my external hard drive to my home folder to sort out things that I have floating around. Some music I put into the Music folder and when I launched Songbird it sorted it for me. YAY!

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