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That's your cloud after the new message.

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See the similarities? This is your cloud page with the new posting tacked to the top.

your weblog is your desktop

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You always see everything you post in your weblog on your desktop. Ok, it doesn't look exactly like the outside, the cloud, but it's similar enough.

post an item from a newsfeed

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After clicking the "blog" icon on an item in your newsfeeds, you can add a comment and post your own entry, based on this item.

stories are shown as the user will see them

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Same as with the weblog, after editing the story you are shown the rendered output on your desktop.

Now write some essay

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With some stupid content. Yours could be more interesting ...

after adding the macro

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After adding your macro, you usually see this screen - your parsed and added macro source and the edit box below. Sometimes you see a traceback with an error message. Better fix the error, if that happens.

lets write our first macro

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This shows how to add a first macro to the system. This isn't something complicated, but you need to know python for it.

This will be the admin user

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This will be an user that is allowed to make changes to the system from remote places. You need to enable remote access in your configuration, too.

add a user for remote access

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If you want to access your machine from the outside, add a user that has the needed rights.

if you like XML-RPC or SOAP

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If you like to write external scripts or hook up external tools, enable XMLRPC and SOAP first.

Now you have shortcuts

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Enter the shortcut in quotes (including the quotes) in the body of a posting or a story, and it will be expanded. Smileys are already there, as are some links to external places.

no shortcuts yet

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Shortcuts are quite empty, too, so fill in defaults. This just requires one click.

your first newsfeed with postings

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This is what is new at the python desktop server weblog.

the feed is added

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Now you have a newsfeed, now look at the postings in it next.

adding your first newsfeed

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Here you can see how to add a newsfeed. It is quite easy, just put in the XML URL.

your empty aggregator

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It's quite empty here, so fill something in!

your very first homepage

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This is how your homepage looks for others after your first post.

what happens in the background

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This shows what happens in the background after your first post.

after posting your first post

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This is how your weblog editor looks after you edited your first posting.

your first posting

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Of course, you must do a first post. Don't be shy, everyone has to start somewhere!

successfull registration at the community

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Now your community account is registered and available.

upstreaming must be configured

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This shows you what to fill in to enable upstreaming. You could use http://muensterland.org/RPC2 instead of the pycs.net address, if you want a german community server.

a list of other preferences pages

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This gives you an overview of other preferences that are available to set.

filling in the blanks

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This shows you what to fill in and how. Of course, you should give your own name and data.

The first start

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This is a picture of the first access with your browser.