Archive for October, 2006

Maemo.org webdesign and free tools

Friday, October 27th, 2006

We’ve been preparing a revamp of the maemo.org website conglomerate using Midgard CMS, the same system that’s been considered for the upcoming Gnome.org revamp. In Maemo there’s quite similar situation - we wish to replace several traditional web services (wiki, blogs, static content, project pages, software catalog etc) with one setup that hopefully works out […]

acroread, your new multimedia application

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

I had this problem lately, that sometimes sound just stopped working. This is not related to the previous incident - I checked that first… but I was to find another surprise this time..
Turns out Acrobat Reader was to blame for this one:

# lsof /dev/snd/pcm*
COMMAND PID USER […]

FL370 - 37000 feet in the sky.

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

Internet and Lufthansa free promotion offer. Sweet. Thanks everyone for a very interesting Summit. I am on my way back home, somewhere above the UK I would guess. The 770 really works fine for the copious legroom and space of *ahem* less than first class
Does anyone know a flight tracking service one could […]

Geographic fun everyone!

Monday, October 9th, 2006

We’re making nice progress in GeoClue in GnomeSummit. Lots of people got interested in the idea, and a lot of lively brainstorming and excitement: “So I want to make GWeather show your current weather automatically, based on your location!” etc.. Awesome!

Happy Hackers brainstorming GeoClue
One of our projects is to have our hacker community more location […]

Geotagging blog posts

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Does anyone know if there is a way to add geotags into blog posts via any of the weblog API’s?
Another thing that we need to figure out is how to add those tags into blog RSS feeds. The goal is to get Planet to become aware of the location of each post, so we can […]

More great reasons to buy a Mac!

Friday, October 6th, 2006

More great reasons to buy a Mac!
Yes. We went to the Apple Store.

Camera store

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Just to let you know, there’s a really really good camera store in Cambridge, MA, near the Galleria shopping center. Google maps directions here, it’s about a mile away from MIT Media Lab.

Other side of the picture

Friday, October 6th, 2006

embedded summit
Originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen
Other side of the view in the embedded hackfest in Gnome Summit 2006, MIT media lab.

reverse polish cumbersomeness?

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006

Inkscape rocks. The more I use it, the more I like it.
But why the heck is the “origo” (0,0) in the bottom left corner of the canvas??
I can not understand the logic behind this, maybe it is something that is planned to be fixed to be “the rest of the world -compatible” later?