Archive for the 'software' Category

iPod and Ubuntu Edgy

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

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

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007

N800
Originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen
Must join the mugshot herd!

Ari Jaaksi’s Blog

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

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 […]

Links for today

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

I love del.icio.us. Seriously. Try searching google for “free fonts” and you get the same crap on every “10000000000000000000+1 free fonts!!!” -site. They all suck.
Try the same on del.icio.us: This and this. Smooch!

The first post from maemo-blog

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

This post has automatically added geotags provided by geoclue!
Of course, they are not much use until the metaweblog API in blogs supports them, but this is a start!

serious stuff

Wednesday, November 8th, 2006

Makoto has the best Maemo/Nokia job ad ever on his blog check it out. Especially if you are into gstreamer and multimedia.

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 […]