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6Jul/070

Thought of the day

I think Strobist has changed the way I look at photography, flash units and light, forever. Thank you!

Now, all I have to do is practice.

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30Jun/070

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 bit simple, does not understand incremental backups etc, it seems. Anyone in the (lazy)web2.0 circles done something like this with Python or something that also syncs the tags and other metadata?

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14Feb/074

Daily Source Code #545 mentions GPS and N800

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!)

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14Dec/060

Ari Jaaksi’s Blog

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 want to create something new; not just re-implement something that has already been done. And yes, you are able to talk, see, hear and communicate through these devices but they are not your old cell phones. They are something else!

(answering the endless question about why the Nokia 770 is not a cellular phone) Check out the whole post.

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29Nov/063

Links for today

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!

Filed under: blogging, design, general, graphics, maemo.org, web 3 Comments

8Nov/060

The first post from maemo-blog

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!

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8Nov/060

serious stuff

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

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10Oct/062

FL370 – 37000 feet in the sky.

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 use to hook it as a backend to geoclue?

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9Oct/061

Geographic fun everyone!

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 aware, and one step in that is to have our blogs geotagged. So go, get the GeoRSS plugin for Wordpress (if anyone knows other blog engines that support this, let us know!) - and start tagging your blog entries with location. Then we can make PlanetGnome show our locations, as well as plotting ourselves on the PlanetMap.

It's great that one of the GeoRSS plugin authors contacted us also, and he is talking with the GeoRSS.org people to try to get some common agreement on how the XMLRPC weblog API could support this information as well. Neat to have co-operation between the Linux Desktop and Blogging communities!
So go, get the plugin and start being geo-aware. I want to see us swarming to Birmingham like a bunch of bees on the map during next Guadec!

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8Oct/064

Geotagging blog posts

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 create a map of them.

I found this plugin that does something what I want, but there's still some research to be done to make this work..

Edit: Looks like the above mentioned GeoRSS plugin for Wordpress actually does encode the coordinates to the feeds, which is neat. Now, does anyone know a way to actually adding the location information in the first place, by using a blog API that Gnome Blog can use? There's a nice UI in Wordpress web editor itself, that can be used to set location, but I want GeoClue to set it automatically for me.