I have been playing with Google's new web application service, which allows you to host your own projects on their servers. It's not bad, but I have some reservations about this service, especially regarding the privacy of the data. Also, currently there's a big collection of crapware on their Application Gallery including lame "We want PHP!" apps posted by some kids who can't be bothered to learn a new language. PHP is cool and all that, but i don't see how it suits to this particular service which is very much unlike anything else before.

Anyway, my hello world application is called Linkius and it's a simple bookmark manager suitable for quickly posting urls which you can then access through your mobile. This have been an itch for me for a while and is now scrached ☺

You can use http://m.linkius.net/ or http://mob.linkius.net/ to access the page, the latter is redirecting to my appspot sub-domain instead, just in case you are in China and ghs.google.com is blocked for you.

And while you are here, have a look at Santora Media: Webseitenerstellung und Webdesign für mittelständische Unternehmen sowie den Gesundheitssektor.

Evolution is a great email client, it's just missing a good new mail notifier - actually, it has none. I am running Fedora Core with Gnome and there's the new-mail applet, but it's huge and an overkill for most cases. To make a long story short, i was looking for a new mail notifier for Evolution and found none which were usable - so i made one. The following code should work on most Gnome desktops including Ubuntu and you can use with any other mail client which can pipe new emails to an external application:

Getting a new spam notification

It's using the libnotify library with python bindings (yum install notify-python), this is the source:

Save the code to a new file, give it the .py ending and make it executable (chmod +x notifier.py). Go to Evolution and create a new message filter for incoming mail and pipe all new mails to the script.

You can also use the script if you are running procmail locally, just add the following script to your ~/.procmailrc file:

# popup new mail alert
:0 c
| ~/notify.py

I release the notifier code in the public domain, do whatever you like with it. If you do some changes to it, please send me a copy, i may be interested in seeing it. Also it would be nice if you could link back to this post.