I am using Blogotext as blog engine. It is a big pleasure to use it :) Blogotext is open-source, easy-to-use and very light, it works very well. I would like to thank again Timo for his great job.
    I am using paragraphs to organize my articles and make them clearer. In addition, I like to start each paragraph with a tabulation. Unfortunately, it is not easy to add tabulations using the default Blogotext editor. However, you can do it by forcing 4 spaces, such as

    

    I wanted to make it easier, thus I decided to implement this option in my editor.
The default Blogotext editor's menu looks like :
After implementing the tabulation option, you'll see an "indent" icon in the right-hand side of the "line-through" icon :


    To do so, you will have to modify two lines in two different files:

1 - First,

• open the file /admin/form.php
• go to line 581
• add
  

  echo "\t".'<button id="button15" class="but" type="button" title="tab" onclick="insertTag(\'\&nb\s\p\;\&nb\s\p\;\&nb\s\p\;\&nb\s\p\;\',\'\',\'contenu\');"><span class="c"></span></button>'."\n";

2 - Second,

• open the file /admin/style/style-ecrire.css
• go to line 184
• add
  

  #button15 span.c { background-image: url("format-bbcode/edit-indent.png"); }

If you want, you can modify the icon by choosing another one from your /admin/style/format-bbcode/ folder.
Enjoy ;)

    The default app switcher on Mac (cmd+tab) doesn't show the different opened windows for a given application. For example if you have multiple LibreOffice windows opened, you will only see one LibreOffice icon on the app switcher. I think this is a great productivity-killer :)
    When I was looking for an alternative, I first found Witch. Witch looks promising but it was too complicated for me. I also didn't like the vertical presentation of the app switcher.
    I then managed (I don't know how) to find Senebier :) I just don't understand what's written and didn't read any positive or negative comment about this app. I didn't installed it yet, but I contacted the author to ask if the source code will be available at any time or not.
    Finally, when following my feeds from LifeHacker, I stumbled upon an article about HyperSwitch. This app switcher is still in Beta but it actually works pretty well. Once you started the app switcher and moved to an app icon, you can:

• press the down arrow to you see all the open windows and switch to one of them
• press the up arrow to open a new window for that app or see the most recent files

    I am actually giving a try to HyperSwitch. It is a promising project, still in beta, but I am sure it will improve a lot very soon.

Source : HyperSwitch website
LifeHacker's article about HyperSwitch
Image : RoaringApps

    As you can see from my older posts, I am becoming more and more self-hosted every day :) I already have some interesting services running on my own server, don't worry I will write about all of them. Last time I wrote about Shaarli, a great and open source links managing tool. Today, I will introduce you to Leed (for Light Feed). Leed is an open source RSS reader alternative to Tiny Tiny RSS or RSS Lounge for example (and the almost dead Google Reader). I never tried any RSS readers before, I was mainly reading my feeds in Thunderbird, thus I cannot compare Leed to its existing alternatives. I can only say that Leed is great.

    I wanted a web-based RSS reader to access my feeds from any devices everywhere. I recently discovered Idleman's blog (in French) when he started his tutorials about the Raspberry Pi. Then I found his project's page and Leed.
Leed is an open source and light RSS feed reader. The installation is very easy.
The "only" requirements are:
- Apache server
- PHP 5.3
- MySQL

    Once installed, you can use crontab to automatically update your feeds, or you can do it manually if you don't want to deal with crontab. You can use keyboard shortcuts and personalize the interface using themes. You can easily implement your own themes. The default theme is responsive, thus you have an easy access and user-friendly interface in any of your devices (tablet, smartphone...).
One other great option is the link between Leed and Shaarli. If you are using Shaarli, you can automatically add any articles from your feeds to your Shaarli.
Leed is very simple and Leed works :)

When I was writing this post, I realized that Leed was only available in French. After asking the permission to the author (Idleman), I translated Leed and the installation process to English.

How to install Leed:
1 - Download the archive LeedEnglish.zip (Licence : CC by nc sa)
2 - Unzip and send the content to your server. Do a chmod 777 to the leed folder
3 - Go to the installation page http://mydomain.com/leed/install.php and follow the instructions
4 - Once the installation is finished, remove the install.php file for your security
5 - If you want to update automatically your feeds, put the following line into your crontab
Open crontab

sudo crontab -e

and add the following line for an hourly update :

0 * * * * wget -q -O /var/www/leed/logsCron "http://mydomain.com/leed/action.php?action=synchronize&code=your_synchronisation_code"

(adjust the link and your synchronisation code)
Be warn that too frequent updates can slow down the server.

Don't hesitate to ask if you have any question or remark ;)

A demo of Leed is available online here