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A website visitor tracking statistics free open source alternative to Google Analytics

Everyone that wants to know how his/her website’s traffic is doing has a form of “visitor counter” or web traffic analytics software. By what I’ve seen, the most popular one is Google Analytics. There’s a free and open source web alternative to Google Analytics and its called Piwik. I’ve been using this software for several […]

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Emacs GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

5 ways to promote Identi.ca and Open Microblogging over Twitter

On the Free Software Foundation Latinamerica mailing list, there’s been a discussion about supporting Identi.ca and open microblogging and encourage quitting using twitter by setting the example. The topic about closed network services and its risks is a very important issue that I will cover on a later post with detail or you can read […]

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Emacs GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

Emacs identica-mode version 0.7

I’ve finally arranged some time to publish a new version of Identica-mode for Emacs to easily track and post updates to any Laconica installation such as Identi.ca What’s new Added menu with most useful features Added re-dent (retweet) feature by pressing C-c C-m with pointer on status to re-dent User timeline method now prompts for […]

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GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

Top 10 firefox extensions I can’t live without

Recently Mozilla launched Firefox extension collections to avoid hunting down your favourite extensions for certain tasks. Here’s my top 10 firefox extensions I cant live without: Firebug This is a web developer must have. It has a ton of features, like code inspection, javascript debugger, css debugger and http console for errors and GET/POST values. […]

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Writing music with lilypond

A week ago, I spent most of my afternoon helping Ada with her new Debian system. She’s writing her thesis and for that she needs to have music notes on the document. I’ve insisted her to write her thesis in LaTeX but she still refuses to learn the syntax and commands. So she’s doing it […]

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Emacs GNU/Linux Free Software & Open Source

Emacs identica-mode with multiple timelines and direct messages

Emacs identica-mode, a way to read and post to Identi.ca microblogging site and any Laconi.ca installation from Emacs, now has support for several (friends, replies, public and user) timelines. Also added support to send direct messages. Some of the changes are: All API calls are now through HTTPS Changed keybinding, pressing “g” on identica-mode buffer […]