Basket: A free-style note taking KDE application

Basket 1.0 is out. And it looks better than ever. Instead of just to-do lists, clipboard stacks, and checklists, there's now a new freestyle basket!

Some other new features include import (text, HTML, "basket", Knotes, Sticky Notes, etc) and export (HTML or "basket" formats), password protection, integration with Kontact, and a lot more. It's looking more full featured now. Yeah...

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KDE Kooldock: Mac OSX dock clone

Cool... Kev just introduced me to Kooldock, a fast clone of the Mac OSX dock.

Adding of applications is by either adding the application, or copying the application's .desktop file to the kooldock preferences directory. Automatically hidden till the mouse is at the bottom edge too! Very intuitive, responsive and well, kewl...

Lurker: A good mailing list message archiver?

Spent some time searching for a good mailing list that can run off a user directory, and found this gem along the way.

Lurker digests emails from designated mailing lists and displays them nicely in a threaded forum-style html page. Like a forum, one can start a new thread, reply to posts, file attachments, and many more. Neat huh?

The only caveat seems to be the dependency on mimelib (kde 3 package), which the developers provided. libmime needs to be statically linked during compilation. Additionally, posting to the "forum" will fire up the computer's default mail client to send an email to the list. This might be a problem for computers on public access.

Installation instructions can be found at http://lurker.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/lurker/lurker/INSTALL. FAQ at http://lurker.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/lurker/lurker/FAQ. Download from Sourceforge.

If this works as promising as it looks, the linuxNUS forums and mailing lists will have a new look.