Archives for Květen 2007

Lightning – slow progress

I had serious problems with building Thunderbird on my Windows XP and because I haven’t time for sitting and solving one problem such this it took me more time than I expected. Finally I rather switch to Linux and built Thunderbird with Lightning there.
And now about current state of work: I’ve finished creating events/todos from [...]

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SlimTimer again

SlimTimer is really good… I’m using it every day but because SlimTimer runs under the browser and I’m developing browser’s extensions so I’m oftenly restarting the browser and shuting up SlimTimer with it…
Well, the first solution is easy: create simple XulRunner application that contains only <iframe src=“http://www.slimtimer.com/“> with SlimTimer loaded (images are below). [...]

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UrlParams

UrlParams is an extension for Mozilla Firefox (and Seamonkey) which shows the GET and POST parameters of the current page in the browser’s sidebar – written is by Erik Schmidt.
I’m using it for a pretty long time but I dislike some features and new version’s still not comming soon … So I’ve decided [...]

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SlimTimer

Yesterday I founded a nice service for personal timesheet – SlimTimer. It consists of two parts – client (time/tasks tracker itself) and admin pages (where you can edit everything, generate your reports, see help etc.). You can also share selected tasks with more people.
Client part is available as a bookmarklet (available for [...]

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Create events/tasks from mail messages

I finished next improvement of Lightning’s overlay of Mozilla Thunderbird. Now I can easily create new event or task from my mail messages. Currently I’m still working on backward link from Lightning event/task back to mail from which we created it. Below is screenshot of new context menu of Thunderbird’s thread pane.

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