Archive for October, 2005

Accessibility tool for artists!

Friday, October 28th, 2005

I just found out a cool trick. Everyone knows Gnopernicus, the Gnome desktop accessibility do-it-all-tool that has the weirdest name ever. Anyway, it, among other things, contains a screen magnifier for visually impaired users.
By default it starts with the right half of the screen magnifying everything on the left, but you can actually configure […]

Free Software for Designers

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

So yeah. Inkscape is pretty cool. The user interface, while still needs some work, has come a long way. It is a pretty neat, capable design tool for a variety of things. Like desktop icons, or, maybe airplane paintjobs?
This is something I did for our aviation club recently. The base photo is a […]

Helsingin Sanomat Wordpress blog site

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

I dont know when they added this, but I just noticed that Helsingin Sanomat, Finland’s largest newspaper, has a reporter blog site — running what else but WordPress! Nice!
Wordpress is a great example how free software can be useful, easy to install and very professional.

Harish!

Thursday, October 20th, 2005

Harish, I think you actually need Tomboy.
I am personally becoming more fond of small tools that work together, and focus on doing one thing really well. What would be nice in Tomboy is if it could export its data into a specified url in a mediawiki or such..

Category fun

Friday, October 14th, 2005

So, I think this might be my first chance to post something that goes on both category “Aviation” and “Linux”
A battery-propelled self-starting sailplane (glider) with embedded linux controlling the lithium-ion battery pack and engine system

“The advantages” (of Linux) “are obvious — we can modify or adapt anything we want. And we are […]

Flying back..

Wednesday, October 12th, 2005

Apparently the Boston area air traffic control radar has issues, so hopefully my flight will be on schedule.. Anyways, it was great to meet new and “old” people again in the summit, see you again soon!
Oh, and for those who are interested in the Tango project, there’s an IRC channel #tango on freenode.
Remember, Tango is […]

Summit Wrap-Up

Monday, October 10th, 2005

The Summit is over, here’s a group photo of everyone present.

Click the image for a larger version.
For those interested, the lens I used is a Sigma 10-20mm wideangle zoom - highly recommended if you ask me..
The rest of my photos (and I will add more once I get time) are here.

Evolution on Windows

Sunday, October 9th, 2005

Live from the Gnome Summit:

Tor demonstrated Evolution running on Windows.

Boston Summit

Saturday, October 8th, 2005

It’s Gnome Summit time again! Awesome!

Happy hacking everyone