Applications: Choqok and Okteta

See Time For a Change for the first in this series, or view the index to see all the posts dealing with Arch Linux. After my fairly unchallenging triumph over ThinkOrSwim installation, I decided to ratchet things up in difficulty. I failed at that.

Twitter Client
I found Choqok to replace Gwibber for following Twitter. I didn't much like Gwibber at first, but I got used to it eventually. One thing I liked about it was that I could watch facebook and Twitter in the same client. Choqok only supports Twitter out of the box, which is kind of a bummer.

Installation is easy: pacman -S choqok

On first launch, Choqok complained that it had no Twitter account to listen to, and gave me a chance to authenticate with Twitter. After doing that, everything worked fine, showing the window we see here.

Hex Editor
Wait, that was too easy. Let's do another one. On Gnome-based Ubuntu, I use Bless as a hex editor. I could install that on KDE, but typing "hex" into the KDE Launcher search bar brings up something called Okteta. Running it, it turns out to be a very capable hex editor.

OK, that's about as easy as it gets. I was going to go for three, but ran into major problems getting Moneydance installed. So I'll leave that for next time.

Three down, seven to go!

PasswordSafe for secure password management

Moneydance for personal finance

ThinkOrSwim for option trading DONE!

Minecraft - thought this would be easy, but it crashed on my first attempt

Dropbox for cloud storage

Kontact for e-mail, contacts, and calendar

Choqok for micro-blogging (following and posting to Twitter) DONE!

NixNote for notes/personal organization

Okteta hex editor DONE!

Bacula for automated backups

Next: Moneydance
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