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13Jul/070

Guadec approaching..

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)

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30Jun/070

Flickr backup

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?

Filed under: blogging, general, gnome, lazyweb, maemo.org, photography, software, web No Comments

5Apr/072

Design for maemo.org website

Design for maemo website

Originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen

We're working on a decent frontpage for www.maemo.org, to put the new site framework into use. Feedback is welcome and very much appreciated.

Filed under: Work, design, general, graphics, maemo.org, web 2 Comments

30Mar/072

Tango-icons for GTK+

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 is also a pretty remarkable. I think we made the right choice to go with SVG and a clear workflow to follow.

Congratulations everyone, I really hope the voice of reason wins and we can get this in gtk+ upstream - I remember the days when I drew the first icon and everyone jumped up and down for the simple fact that we had icons. Let's not stop the creativity this time either, guys!

One thing I want to do in the future is to start thinking towards high-dpi screens (not just N800 - this is coming to desktops and laptops too) - we will need more icons in the larger end of the scale - and I, wearing my Nokia hat, want to work together with the community to define this for us all, so we can avoid duplicate work. Besides, the smaller the pile of patches Maemo has against mainstream free software the better.

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30Mar/074

Awesome weather

The last 7 days or so have been pretty incredible weather-wise - as if someone had stolen all the weather from scandinavia... No need to use my N800 to check weather this time
I went flying on wednesday evening at dusk, incredibly smooth air and very beautiful up there in a weather like this..

Filed under: aviation, general, maemo.org 4 Comments

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!)

Filed under: blogging, general, geotagging, gnome, lazyweb, maemo.org, software, web, weblinks 4 Comments

11Feb/076

Some minor updates..

I did some minor updates to the Plankton theme yesterday.

The topright corner's black blob is gone from the "home" view - yes, it was a bug, not some weird artistic brain fart of mine.
The buttons are much lighter in appearance - I want to do a very clean, simple theme that works.
The theme is now dithered to 32000 colors, so it has less banding on the blue gradient in the task navigator and statusbar panels.
The virtual thumb keyboard is cleaner (in progress, I know it has some pixel glitches) - the goal is to make it very easy to type with - hence the very prominent pressed-state of buttons and the clean appearance. Let me know if it helps - I think it does.
Some other crap perhaps that I forgot.

Grab it here. You need hildon-theme-cacher from here to install it. N800 only for now.

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7Feb/071

Apple on DRM

Pretty interesting open letter from Steve Jobs..

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30Jan/0725

New maemo development theme

Finally I have more or less finished my new theme for the Nokia N800.

I hope to replace the old purple maemo platform development theme with this one. The template is in svn, I hope I committed it on the correct place, as Michael was moving stuff around when they were refactoring the theme packaging a bit. In any case, it's there and if you feel like hacking on a new theme of your own, there's also an Inkscape svg file you might find useful, in the same svn tree.
Oh, it looks like this:

Meet "plankton", the theme!

It's still not perfect, as you can easily see, but I'll try to tweak the remaining bits when I can. But I feel it's good enough at this point. And hopefully it makes N800 users happy, with new look? Let me know if you like it..

Edit: DOH. Forgot to tell the packages are here. Install cacher first, the theme depends on it. (It generates some gtkrc cache that speeds things up when starting applications..)

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9Jan/070