Using Nick-completion in Psi GroupChats

If you’re chatting in groupchats quite frequently, nick completion is an invaluable feature. The most useful shortcut is Tab-Tab; when used on beginning of new line or after a step it inserts the nickname of the person who last addressed you directly. You can then continue to press Tab and it will loop on the nicks of all the people in the room.

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Productive Forum Posting

If you ever actively participated in heated forum debates, probably sometimes you ended replying to many points in original post, quoting bits of text. And then you sensed despair, because it was so hard to distinguish your text from original author — it all looked the same!.

Enter the world of productive forum posting.

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Death to the Icons!

It was a good week: public Psi 0.11-beta1 release happened recently, I was able to improve some design bits of my blog, also eliminated the long-standing insect that was hurting my eyes and stopping from using the development branch in day-to-day life. Now, the insect’s dead, and I’m happily running 0.11-beta1 now.

The ones who have already tried Psi/Mac 0.11-beta1 probably noticed the sudden appearance of many little bothersome icons in all kinds of menus where they weren’t present in 0.10: icons in context menu, application menus and even in the menu bar itself! So it was decided that icons should not be able to live any longer.

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