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I started using psi recently. psi uses jisp format for specifying it’s emoticons and other icon themes. Not happy with themes i found, i converted pidgin emoticons theme i had to psi format. Download and try it, comments are very appreciated.
I did nothing besides converting the format, all the copyrights belong to pidgin theme creators.
That’s how they look:

BTW, in order to install the theme - just put it in your ~/.psi/iconsets/emoticons directory.

Technorati Tags: psi, pidgin, emoticons, theme, smilies

Recently, due to security reasons, all kind of ports were closed at my workplace which made impossible to connect to gtalk and icq servers. I used pidgin because i could not find stable jabber transports, which was connected to icq, msn, and jabber networks - to be able to contact both people at work and friends. I couldn’t do it any longer .
Since Internet browsing works, there are at least two ports open - 80 (http) and 443 (https). Which means i need ed to find jabber server which allows to connect on those ports. And it was easy enough - thanks to Australian jabber.org.au. It allows connections on port 443.
So, pick your favorite jabber client, register on site above and use jabber transports to connect to msn/icq/etc. Do not forget to set the port manually to 443.
Most important - have fun .

Technorati Tags: jabber, im, firewall, https, howto

It looks like a lot of people are looking on my posts about mplayer configuration. At least i see relatively many references from google searches. (Does it mean more linux users or mplayer is penetrating into windows world?)
So a summary here:

• if you want nice mplayer GUI - take a look at smplayer
• my mplayer configuration posts: 1 and 2

Technorati Tags: mplayer, smplayer, linux, media player, configuration