Twittipy now prompts for your username and password. If you want it to save to the config file, just uncomment some of the lines. I’m not comfortable with the password saved in a file and I haven’t thought of a way to encrypt them. By the way, Pidgin saves passwords in plain text too. The login prompt is old code from a wxPython experiment some time ago (and it ain’t pretty).

After you get authenticated, an icon will appear in your system tray. To exit Twittipy, right-click on the icon.

Download it here.

1. Check if you have wine installed.
   $ rpm -qa | grep wine
2. Uninstall the old version.
   $ sudo yum -y remove wine
3. Download the latest build from Koji. The following is the i386 build.
   $ wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-twain-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-capi-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/src/wine-1.1.4-1.fc9.src.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-jack-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-nas-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-core-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-ldap-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-cms-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-cms-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-tools-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-desktop-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm \
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/wine/1.1.4/1.fc9/i386/wine-esd-1.1.4-1.fc9.i386.rpm
4. Install the RPMs.
   $ sudo rpm -Uvh wine-*
5. Confirm installation.
   $ rpm -qa | grep wine

I upgraded to the lastest version of Wine just to get Google Chrome running on Linux even if I already read that it’s slow and SSL support is absent. I followed this guide.

I almost got it running but it was really slow (see screenshot below). I also have V8 compiled but when I tried to play around with it, I didn’t know what to do even with the interactive console.

My invaluable thoughts on Chrome:

• I think it’s great that it uses Webkit. Not really sure if it’s faster than Gecko but at least testing with Webkit is more fun now.
• You can drag a tab in and out of the window. That’s cool but I couldn’t pin the window to stay on top.
• The developer tools are almost as great as those provided by Firefox extensions (i.e. Firebug).

SIPv4 - A commentary on the state of SIP

Philippine Web Design Conference (a WIP)

Sangoma U100 - A USB FXO for Asterisk. I’m getting one, thanks to Mark Q. [pic]

Koji - package builder for Fedora

Cairo-Dock - giving in to using this dock so my windows minimize to it only because I can’t configure my XFCE task list to expand. I want to configure it so that the icons highlight when hovering over the icons. Right now it zooms in.

His Art, Our Heart: The Amorsolo Retrospective - just a plug on what I worked on recently. I’ve fallen in love with mootools and this is coming from someone who always loathed frameworks.
Credits:
Art Director: David Guerrero, Dino Cabrera, Guadakomeda, Leah Mababangloob
Logo Design: Bixie Reyes, Gino Caoile
Copywriter: Racquel Narciso, Pia Roxas, Maan Agsalud
Accounts: Cels Esguerra, Mads De Guzman, Karen Go
Developers: Dennis Billano, JP Loh

Kitteh - Domo nom nom by Migs Ambo. That’s my favorite. Followed by Siopao.

There’s something with Domo’s innocent eyes and sharp incisors that captivates me. This is like a sweet little mix of lolcats, comic strips and, err, candy? Brilliant work, Migs!

Unfortunately, I am not like the computer hackers that you would see in the movies. During weekdays [and nights], I am nothing but a corporate slave where I am forced to randomly type gibberish on the keyboard.

Weekends are also spent in front of the computer but chatting with friends that I met on the Internet and waiting for content to be cached by Google. I have no real social life and no girlfriend.

I do not crack into servers during my free time. I can’t. I can’t because I do not know how. I am not even close to becoming a script kiddie. What more with tracing the person behind the content cached by Google?

I can’t see the world where Japanese characters stream down like Neo does in The Matrix but if the lights in your room start flickering while you read this, I may have found a way how to do it.

You resisted the brainwashing waves of the La Sallian force by writing these interesting blog entries. You are not another moist robot produced by the La Sallian enterprise! You stand out among the crowd. Bold. Very bold.

I used to write my frustrations with DLS-C on this blog, too. Sir Joel gave me wise advise to avoid these kind of things. It’s a lot of trouble and there are ways to resolve the conflicts that you have. Well, sort of. If you can’t, just let it slide dahil ang pikon ay talo.

I love the fact that DLS-C students Canlubangers are very proficient in Filipino.

“The Internet never forgets”, as Sir Joel always said. I’m mirroring your obra maestra. Many thanks to Pat for the lead.

• Diskriminasyon na Kung Diskriminasyon
• Gaham sa Kapangyarihan
• Iba Talaga ang Ugali
• Maliit ang Perpektong Mundo Kung Saan Bilib Sa Kanya Ang Mga Tao
• Ningas Kugon
• Parang Asong Sunudsunuran

This is me amused with little things.

On a side-note, I think it’s about time to get a new laptop. It’s not that my current laptop needs more juice. It works just fine for my needs and brought me great fortune in the past 4 years from college requirements to enterprise software.

Fedora 7 just reached its end of life and I get this OCD that I have outdated software. With the urge to upgrade but no place to backup my files (strange, all of my drives are full), I think a new laptop is the answer.

An extra hard disk would be a lot cheaper but I’m weighing the extra convenience that I’ll get with a more modern laptop. For instance, if I had a newer wireless card with 802.11g (yes, my laptop is 802.11b!), I’ll be using drivers with WPA support and higher transfer rates. With a DVD combo drive (vs a CD-ROM drive), better RAM, graphics card, and processor, makes me convinced that it’s, err, about time.

I’ll be getting an HP/Compaq because all of our laptops at home that carry the same brand are still alive. Also, it won’t be anything fancy. Just a boring normal laptop and it won’t be a tablet like I wished before. The TX2000 and TX2500 are available locally though.

There will be one busy weekend soon.

Running Twittipy

1. Create a configuration file in your home directory (~/.twittipy)
2. Set your Twitter username/email and password in the configuration file.
   Example:
   [general]
username = johnsmith
password = unhackable
3. Make Twittipy executable
   $ chmod u+x twittipy.py
4. Fire it up!
   $ ./twittipy.py &

Twittipy requires Python 2.5, pycurl and pynotify. If it complains of missing modules, you probably didn’t meet the requirements.

Roadmap

I did some googling and found other stuff to try that could improve Twittipy.

• Port for other platforms (Windows with pywin32 and KDE via wxPython)
• Icon at the notification area or system tray (via wxPython)
• Encrypt or obfuscate password in config file and/or if password is not found in the config file, prompt and store in memory.
• Make use of the other methods of the Twitter API.

Download it here. There are two more options in the config file, update_interval and last_update. The former defaults to 4 minutes and the latter to the current time.

I’m quite satisfied with it. The notifications of pynotify are less obtrusive than an IM message. There’s one noticeable quirk where a tweet repeats. We’ll fix that for the next release.

Comments are welcome and please check out tweetyPy as well (not mine but also an academic project).

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On a side note, any comments on the “modern” Winamp version? I’m thinking of using its library features. Since my media “server” back at home was decommissioned, I’ve been having problems with my muzak itches.

Another side note, is there a portable music player out there that has a ≥60GB flash drive? I might’ve dropped my iPod too many times. A fancy UI is the least of my concerns.