Daily Dilbert

Daily Dilbert Mozilla Firefox Add-On.

I'm a Dilbert fan. Yes, and I'm proud of it :) After all, I can be compared to Alice: the only engineer girl in the team of computer engineers ;)

If you are like me, there is a nice add-on for Mozilla Firefox, called Daily Dilbert. Tools>Add-Ons and click on the link on the bottom righthand-side. Search for Daily Dilbert, and there you go! A small picture of Dilbert in the middle of your bottom bar in Firefox will appear, and when you click on it, a pop-up with the daily Dilbert will appear.

The languages are English, Spanish, Czech, Polish. And I know that you can find a Swedish version on another website. But no French version. I just sent an e-mail to unitedmedia to see why there is no French daily comic. Let's wait and see !

You also have the daily version of Peanuts, GetFuzzy, AndyCapp and Phdcomics in the Daily Dilbert add-on.

RSSOwl

urpmi rssowl: v.1.2.3. But the version 1.2.4 is available on the official site. The version 2.0 is on its way.

I used to have my RSS links in my Firefox bookmarks toolbar, but if you put too many in the toolbar, you end up not having enough space for your other bookmarks. And I already created some folders to sort my bookmarks, but I still have a nice collection of bookmarks in my bookmarks toolbar.

So I decided to look for a RSS reader. And I picked up RSS Owl, euh, I don't remember why. Maybe because of their slogan: May the owl be with you.

The install via urpmi went easy. But it's the first time I have that many supplementary packages to add. In the end, 93 packages to install.Be sure you have a bit of time when you launch the install.

When you start RSSOwl, your screen looks like your web browser, open on an empty page (white). You can see the address bar, like in a web browser, and a toolbar at the top. RSSOwl is compiled with a whole database of rss feeds, already set up in the favorites. If you press [F11], or Display>Favorites, a left frame will appear, with this database.

If you want to gain time, there is a search engine, that you can call with [CTRL+G] or Tools>Search. It will look for the RSS on the internet, and tell you if the RSS link you're looking for is already in the database, or if you need to add it: if the bow next to the result is ticked, it means that the RSS is not in your favorites, and you can add it by clicking on "import" at the bottom of the search dialog box.

When you click on one of the favorite, it will open as a tab in the frame on the right. A list of all the news will appear, leading you to be aware of everything that is going on in the world in only one quick glance. If you double-click on any of the title in the right frame, your favorite web browser will open the page with the full article.

Of course, you can edit your list of favorites, by creating new categories, deleting the existing favorites,...
No more reason not to know what's going on in the world :)

Welcome in geekette country !

Hi there! I'm happy that you came to see me !
Geek world is mostly a boys' world, a few girls are really computer wiz. I think I can call me a geekette without too much pretention. Oh oh oh I'm not saying I'm a computer genius, no no.

I'm just a normal girl, fond of computers, and ready to tell the world what I have been learning today working on mine.

About me:
I'm a french engineer, so if I make any english mistakes, please post a comment, I'm always ready to learn ! I'm a process engineer, but my last year specialisation is Information Systems.
This means that I have been quickly trained on ERPs, J2EE, Perl, HTML,CSS, UML and Management Project in school.

I know more or less the basis, and now I'm going to improve by myself, a bit more everyday. I'm not a crazy programmer, my formation is more about conception and project management.

My actual computer: Laptop MSI M645. Yes, MSI makes some laptops, and I'm happy with this one.

My OS: Mandriva 2008.0 Free. It's a french linux distribution. I tried to install Ubuntu 7.10 last month but the DVD could never start, after 3 tries. So I decided to stick with Mandriva. I've been using Mandriva for 4 years now, and the installation of the 2008 went smooth at the first start, so...

My interface: KDE 3.5
My browser: Mozilla Firefox

What else? Well, let's get started ;)