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Syncing Tomboy Notes with Dropbox 11 October, 2008

…It’s just easy as creating a Tomboy folder inside Dropbox’s Shares and do a local synchronization!

Posted in Dropbox, English, GNOME, Nessuna | 15 Comments »

htaccess to redirect on DropBox’s public folder 17 September, 2008

Got tired of the long dropbox url for your public files? It is difficult to remember when you are on IRC and you don’t want to open nautilus and search for that file?
Do this with a htaccess!

You just need to follow these two easy steps:

1. Create a new folder on your web server, for example “dropbox”. In my case I’ll have http://cimitan.com/dropbox or http://dropbox.cimitan.com
2. Create this .htaccess file (with the dot!) and place it inside the “dropbox” folder:
   

   RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/012345/$1 [L,QSA]

   Of course remember to change “012345″ with your dropbox user ID!

Result: http://dropbox.cimitan.com/screens/dropbox.gif

You can also play with symlinks in your Public folder! For example: inside my Public folder I’ve a subdirectory called Screenshots, which is symlinked to screens and tmp. They will work too!

Posted in Dropbox, English | 7 Comments »