[Thu Sep 15 15:48:17 CDT 2016]

Here is yet another cool tool that recently fot a standalone app in Linux. If you are a WhatsApp user, you can now download and install Whatsie. The installation instructions, together with a short introduction, can be found here. Basically, in the case of a Debian system, you run the following commands:

$ gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 1537994D

$ gpg --export --armor 1537994D | sudo apt-key add -

$ echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/aluxian/deb stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install whatsie

Incidentally, when running the update, you may run into the following error:

$ sudo apt-get update
E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/http could not be found.

The fix is not difficult at all:

$ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

That's it. It works like a charm. {link to this entry}

[Fri Sep 9 15:46:45 CDT 2016]

If, like me, you are a regular user of Remember The Milk, you may be interested in their recently released Remember The Mil client for Linux. I installed it on Debian stable, and it is working just fine. Mind you, it truly offers about the same user experience as the web interface. Nevertheless, it's another choice. I wouldn't mind to run GMail this way too. Sometimes it is just a pain to have so many browser tabs constantly open. {link to this entry}