KeyTouch for weird multimedia keyboards

I was never able to get the default GNOME keyboard properties capplet to work with my Logitech Media Keyboard. Then I suddenly stumbled on an Ubuntu Forums post saying that KeyTouch is the “first and only program of its kind that works perfectly together with kernel 2.6”. And it does! My keyboard was even supported. You should be able to get any keyboard supported quite easily with the provided KeyTouch-editor if yours isn’t. Great work Marvin!

SyncML doesn’t entirely suck

I can now sync (sort of) my Nokia 9300‘s calendar and the Mozilla calendar and the Thunderbird address book. As Nokia doesn’t think LInux is worthy of support, I’ve taken another route. The 9300 and the Communicators do support one open standard, namely SyncML. So, I’ve created an account on ScheduleWorld, which uses SyncML. Syncing works between the phone and ScheduleWorld. Then, you can access the address book via LDAP, and the Ical calendar. These are both read-only of course, the only way to edit the information from Linux is to use ScheduleWorld’s own Java-based application. Anyway, this doesn’t suck as much as total inaccessibility.