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Display Reminders In Gnome Panel

It was a long standing requirement of mine to create a reminder software or something which can keep me reminding of things as I always keep forgetting things. So I made a reminder that displays my reminders on the Gnome Panel. It looks something like thi …

Automatic Desktop Wallpaper Changer for Linux

I have a lot of wallpaper that I wanted to switch automatically. After a lot of search i found that there a command way to control all the gnome settings. So I the command I used is “gconftool-2″. So code is like: [bash] #!/bin/bash folder="/h …

Birthday Reminder For Gnome Panel

This program checks the file /home/rsrijith/shell/birthday_reminder.txt to find the upcoming birthdays in 20 days and writes into the file /home/rsrijith/shell/birthdays. There is a file called /home/rsrijith/shell/birthdays1, the difference between it an …

Find Invisible Users In Gmail

Finding who is invisible is something that I always wanted to do.It’s always fun to ping a person who feels none can see him/her online. While studying XMPP protocol I found out that even when the person is offline the chat client knows that person is onli …

Tab Feature in Vim

Vim is one of the simplest looking but most powerful editor I have seen. So thought of listing a few interesting one that I came across. Tab Opening of Files. There are two methods of starting files in tabs. By opening vi the files you want to op …

Reminder for Gnome Panel

This is the program that lets us to enter the text and time at which it should be reminded me. The command has the following options -d: date eg:  17/3/2009 -t : time [ It's should be entered as 24hr clock] eg:   20:00:00 -r : reminder text [  …

Google Buzz Bug-Weird Comments

Google has come up with new feature in Gmail called Google Buzz. I saw a few of the privacy concerns on the initial week it came itself and it was said all this concerns have been fixed by the weekend itself.So I was trying it out and how it works when I n …

Generate Date from a range in Mysql and pad the results where no date is present

If you want to generate dates, MYSQL doesn’t have a range function, so I wrote a work around for the same. So how  it works is I have reused a code to generate numbers from my previous post. So I added date function to that query and reduce the generated  …