Project: Shantz Pidgin Away Alerts (splert) Updated to 0.03

By Shantanu Goel in Internet , Linux , Programming , Projects , Software on 04 Oct, 2008

I updated my project splert to version 0.03 today.For those who don’t know splert is a tool that lets you convert the multi-client instant messenger pidgin (connects to gtalk, msn, yahoo, jabber, etc) into a full blown answering machine and much more.

The main changes are:

1. Now you can use other 3rd party twitter

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TIP: A Post For Pidgin Plugin Developers

By Shantanu Goel in Internet , Programming , Software , Tips on 23 Sep, 2008

Recently I wrote a small autoreply-answering-machine app for pidgin with a simple premise. Send custom automatic replies to different people when they message you and came across a strange bug. It never sent the reply when you received the first message from someone. I was using the “ReceivedImMessage” signal over d-bus (or “received-im-message” for the

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Hack: Pidgin-Gtalk Connection Problems – Get Around The Corporate Firewall

By Shantanu Goel in Computers , Hack , Internet , Software on 08 Sep, 2008

I recently wrote a simple answering machine program/plugin for pidgin and someone asked me to port it to 32 bit. So I fired up pidgin within my virtual box installation at work (as I have only a 64 bit machine at home) but couldn’t get it to connect. Tried all sorts of methods found over

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Project: Splert – A Custom Answering Machine And More for IMs

By Shantanu Goel in Linux , Programming , Projects , Software on 18 Aug, 2008

Update Aug 25 2008: Updated to v0.02 and also added 32 bit package. Hit the link given below to download.

You must have heard of (or used) the auto-reply features given by today’s instant messengers that are sent to the ones messaging you while you are not at your desk. But those are one-size-fits-all kind

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