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DesktopRSS app Lightread now supports two of the most popular ‘read it later’ services: ‘Pocket’ and ‘Instapaper’. Both services, which claim to have some 5.5 million users between them, boast Kindle, Android, iOS and web apps that give its users on-the-go access to their stashed stories. Pocket and Instapaper Sending in Lightread Two new icons have been added to bottom toolbar under the article pane. Clicking the second of these – the arrow icon - allows you to quickly ‘send’ an article to either service Pocket or Instapaper. If you’re not already logged in to the service you selected you will be prompted to do so. You will only need to login once. And that’s it. You may, like me, find yourself wondering if the article is actually sent. Lightread gives no feedback, notification or confirmation after sending so you just have to ‘trust’ that it’s worked. Instapaper Formatting As well as supporting the sending of articles to Instapaper Lightread also integrat...

Launchpad API Dear Readers, Since last few weeks I was working with launchpad-api in order to generate some statistical and analytical reports for OpenERP project, I found launchpad-api quite powerful and interesting but required improvement in terms of developer experience, during my several days of work I have worked with the branches, bugs and merge proposal object. Here I would like to share some of the interesting examples with methods that I used to work in the production. Working with launchpadlib launchpadlib is an open-source Python library that lets you treat the HTTP resources published by Launchpad's web service as Python objects responding to a standard set of commands. With launchpadlib you can integrate your applications into Launchpad without knowing a lot about HTTP client programming. Installation ! sudo apt-get install python-launchpadlib Launchpad's web service currently exposes the following major parts of Launchpad: People and tea...