I have created a pipemenu for OpenBox allowing you to have a menu of your Opera bookmarks anywhere in the OpenBox window manager. When you click a bookmark in the menu it is opened in Opera or if Opera is already running in a new tab. To read more about OpenBox pipemenus and how to use them visit the OpenBox wiki.

I have a couple of Flic barcode scanners that have been collecting dust on the shelf for a couple of years. Last time I used these I was using Windows XP as my primary operating system. Just the other day I installed Tellico and decided to catalogue my huge collection of books. A barcode scanner sure would make my life easier. So now I needed a Linux driver for these fine devices. It took me about 6 hours to conclude that the only software wedge available for the Flic on Linux is closed source payware and only supports tethered connections not Bluetooth. As a nostalgic guy who dreams of the "good old days, when men where men and wrote their own drivers" I thought; "hey, it's only serial communication, how hard can it be?". So I sat down and wrote my own software wedge for the Flic barcode scanner in Perl. It took me all of one night. And now I'm sharing it with you:

The default keyboard shortcut application in gnome, as you might have noticed, isn't worth very much. You can only assign keyboard shortcuts to a list of predefined commands. Not very valuable really. It is however possible to define up to 12 custom keyboard shortcuts in a slightly more complicated manner. (Some people have said it's possible to define up to 32 shortcuts, but I haven't been able to define more than 12. If somebody has succesfully defined more than 12 please contact me and let me know)

If you use SSH from the shell often you might be getting tired of entering your password over and over again. If you often log on to other machines from your machine via SSH, be it work, school, or just other machines on your LAN? Then this can be a real timesaver. Doing this is also a must if you want to mount remote file systems via SSHFS boot time. Warning! Only do this on machines you trust. If you are on a public machine, it’s probably a good idea to not do this.

There haven't been many updates here lately. I was on vacation for a month this summer, and after that I've been quite busy. I have however been working on a couple of great articles to post here. So in a short while there should be some really good updates available.This however is just a short update on what's been going on at quickmark.

Yesterday Nokia launched a new version of their PC-Suite software. The 6.84 version of this software in addition to enhancements to performance and stability, offers a completely new feature; the ability to synchronize files between your phone and your computer automatically.