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Your personal GMail-like mail system: fetching with getmail
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Now your e-mail storage is converted and you are ready to go. Hold on, it is time to do some preparation work. While not strictly necessary, I suggest you you figure up and write down the following information: Which user id will own the mail storage files. It will also run the mail retriever and (in future) […]
Your personal GMail-like mail system: converting emails
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As mentioned before, the email system uses Maildir format for storage. There are a lot of reasons to choose Maildir and I’m not going to debate about it although technically you can adopt this guide for MBOX storage as well. And since I already had the emails which I want to keep, and since I […]
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ColorPreference class for Android
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There are many Android color pickers used for preferences, but they all seem to be unnecessary complex for an ordinary user. If all you need is to let the user choose a single color from a set, you can use this simple class which is conveniently integrated into the Preferences scheme.
Karaoke Lyrics Editor version 1.3 is released
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Version 1.3 of Karaoke Lyrics Editor has been released with several major changes: Audio player switched to FFMpeg/SDL instead of incredibly buggy and unreliable Phonon. No more “cannot play this file” error on Win32. Added improved export in CD+G format with a preview dialog and easily configurable options. Improved the CD+G tester which allows playing any CD+G […]
FontPreference dialog for Android
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Using the FontManager class it is possible to implement a simple and nice font selection dialog on Android platform. This is also one of the very few ListView implementation which implements the custom ListView by properly subclassing the DialogPreference the same way ListPreference does. It may also be interesting for anyone who is looking for […]
Your personal GMail-like mail system
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My readers remember that I switched to Thunderbird back in December. This was quite difficult experience which included a lot of trial and errors, and although it didn’t result in any e-mail corruption or loss, this was definitely not kind of experience I’d like to go through in future. This made me wonder whether it […]
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From KMail to Thunderbird: extra add-ons
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The previous posts covered how to add the KMail functionality into Thunderbird. This post describes some other useful Thunderbird plugins, which add even more functionality. I deliberately missed some add-ons which are described everywhere as “must have” and only listed those I use myself and find valuable. Feel free to Google something like “top ten […]
Enumerating the fonts on Android platform
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Some Android applications may find it useful to obtain the full list of the fonts installed on the device together with the font names.They could be used to choose the best matching font for specific purposes, or to let the user choose the font. Unfortunately the Android platform provides no such API in Java. It is […]
From KMail to Thunderbird: hotkeys
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If you have done everything mentioned before, you now brought your Thunderbird functionality on par with what you had in KMail. And probably the only annoying things still remained is the keyboard mapping. Probably more than once you pressed “A”expecting it to “Reply to all” and ended up with an archived message instead. No problem, […]