So, its this time of the year again. For those who have the Nokia internet tablets and are going to be there, this might be useful (I created a small location database for maemo mapper, containing some things related to guadec 2007)
I found a simple Java application to backup my flickr photos to local harddisk - while many of them exist on my computer already and were just added to flickr for sharing, there are lots of camera phone pictures I don’t have around anywhere else. Thus such a thing makes sense.
However, the tool is a […]
Today we, the people of Tango project, created 199 icons to refresh the icon set included in the Gtk+ toolkit. In one day. Call it the power of the community or free software development model, or whatever. I think it rocks!
I think they look awesome - 9 people managing to use a common visual style […]
Dear lazyweb, how hard is it to make Adam Curry who ponders Nokia N800, GPS and some clever code to find out about Geoclue? (hi! good show!)
If you decided to give the heck on what Steve says on his keynote soon, and got a nice iPod nano, and horror of horrors, Linux doesnt make it work out of the box immediately like it does for the older iPods, check out this patch and instructions to build yourself a new HAL.
N800
Originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen
Must join the mugshot herd!
Ari Jaaksi of maemo.org and Nokia wrote an interesting blog entry yesterday, I thought I’d share with you who don’t read planet maemo..
“I’d like a true operating system (Linux) and advanced middleware (GTK, Gnome, DBUS, ….) power new exciting connected mobile devices. I want to use the devices and their software as innovation platforms and […]
Makoto has the best Maemo/Nokia job ad ever on his blog check it out. Especially if you are into gstreamer and multimedia.
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 […]
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 […]