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OS reinstallation would be much easier with a plugin that could dump your entire list of Firefox plugins and reload them later.
Does anybody know of a plugin like that? I’ve used screenshots to remember which plugins I’d installed, then reinstalled them one at a time, but that’s a remarkably sucky way to go.
What do you use to avoid having to find and reinstall your favorite plugins one at a time? Anything?
I'm tired of comment spam. I guess my blog has grown to a popular enough size that I'm known by just enough bots to make things annoying. The next plugin I'll be trying out is WP-SpamFree. If you can't post a comment, use my contact form to let me know there is an issue. WP-SpamFree [...]
Sometimes you get used to doing things one way and you forget to take a step back now and then and see if there isn't something you're missing. In my case, I was formatting source code on this blog by putting html non-breaking spaces and < codes for angle brackets etc. Ouch. [...]
Yesterday it was brought to my attention that the Gnome-Do team had released a major update, 0.5! Being completely addicted to Gnome-Do I immediately upgraded to check out the new features. Here is a basic rundown of the new features and, of course, how to upgrade your system!
Features
After taking a look at the mile-long list of improvements I realize that I won’t nearly have enough room here to outline everything. I figure I’ll give you a link to the long list, and just outline some of the stuff that impresses me the most.
First of all I really like the new interface to handle the plugins. Gnome-Do is a great tool, but a lot of the best functionality comes in the shape of plugins. In the new version you’re able to manage all of your plugins by way of a central UI. Activation, configuration, deactivation, etc all in one place. Its a great way to try out all the plugins available without requiring manual downloading and setup, which was the previous method.
You really do need to check out all the plugins available–there are a bunch of new plugins that I’m sure you haven’t tried before.
You might notice, as I did, that some of the plugins you were previously used to need to be activated before they can be used again. After you install (below) make sure to open the preferences and activate your favorites.
You can see an exhaustive list of additions at Dave’s blog, here.
How To Upgrade?
Now that I’ve got you interested I’ll outline how to upgrade. In Ubuntu this is done by way of the Launchpad hosted PPA (Personal Package Archive). This command will add the PPA repository to your sources.list:
echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/do-core/ubuntu hardy main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
Once you’ve got this added you’ll need to update (refresh), and then request the upgrade:
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade
If you’re a new user you’ll definitely want to check out Gnome-Do with this release. Install it using:
sudo aptitude install gnome-do
You should see an update for gnome-do at this point. Accept the upgrade and the latest greatest version should install.
Thoughts?
I’d love to get some of your thoughts on Gnome-Do. Do you use it as much as I do? Hell, I don’t even have menu’s anymore. I launch everything with Gnome-Do–everything! Let me know what you think or share your favorite plugins.
During my experiments with WP-Super-cache, I noticed a strange thing happen to my Adsense ads. A short while after getting gzip compression to work properly, all my ad content had foreign characters and strange seemingly unrelated content. Having changed nothing on my blog except for installing WP-super-cache, I decided to add an additional check to [...]
I was pretty excited to see an update to WP-Cache. The first thing I noticed is that when I enabled the new super cache compression option, I started getting a file save as dialog instead of my pages. As of the current version of WP-Super-Cache, the readme.txt file states that if you get [...]
I’ve upgraded my old WP-Cache plugin to this one that I found on Digg.com today. From the Digg.com Post: Tired of clicking a link off the Digg front page only to find a crashed or mortally lagged site on the other side? Finally, Donncha (one of the main WordPress developers) has solved the problem once and [...]
Since I upgraded to Wordpress 2.3, The biggest thing I missed about my old Simple Tags Plugin was the auto-completion that happened for tags when I started typing them in on a post. I started missing that so much that I began to think of writing a new plugin. Before beginning on such [...]