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flic.kr bookmarklet

Tuomas Kuosmanen — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:35:58 +0000

The Nokia N900 browser plays nicely with "bookmarklets" - small snippets of javascript that you can bookmark that perform useful functions. One new find is the Flickr short ur generator, its pretty handy if you like twitter / irc / facebook and post flickr urls a lot..

Another one that I like is the Youtube MP4 video downloader - Youtube videos play fine in the N900, but sometimes I want to save a good one..

To use these, just hit ctrl-b in the browser and find the bookmarklet of your choice..

Oh, and I snapped a nice (in my opinion) photo of Quim giving the opening welcome for Maemo Barcelona Long Weekend.

Ogg? Vorbis!? What?

Tuomas Kuosmanen — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:41:30 +0000

I looked at the internet radio stations in Finland, and discovered that MetroFM does have one. The fact that their stream uses ogg/vorbis format doesnt stop me from enjoying it in the N900 though

Install ogg support for N900 here. Update: Alternatively, open application manager, enable "Maemo Extras" repository if it is not yet enabled, and install "ogg-support" from there.
Enjoy MetroFM

Sweet

edit: too bad their terms only allow streaming to ip addresses in finland.

Thought of the day

Tuomas Kuosmanen — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 16:02:01 +0000

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.

Flickr backup

Tuomas Kuosmanen — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:23:45 +0000

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?

Design for maemo.org website

Tuomas Kuosmanen — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 12:58:25 +0000

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.

Daily Source Code #545 mentions GPS and N800

Tuomas Kuosmanen — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:11:46 +0000

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!)

Links for today

Tuomas Kuosmanen — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 21:22:07 +0000

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

Tuomas Kuosmanen — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:44:44 +0000

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!

Maemo.org webdesign and free tools

Tuomas Kuosmanen — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:04:40 +0000

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 nicely, having common admin interface and centralized user account management etc. In short, to end the madness of various pieces of php from different projects and trying to tie them together with duct tape. So far things are going great, and since I am familiar with Midgard already, it's fun to hack this. We're also doing this very much in the open, our feasibility study is in garage.maemo.org svn, for example, along with everything we've been doing so far for the templates and artwork. Which leads to the other part of this blog entry: designing websites with Inkscape.

I have noticed it's very nice tool for this kind of stuff, especially since the SVN "bleeding edge" version can do gaussian blur's on objects. Mmmm.. super-nice and easy drop shadows..

What I found even nicer, is that if you have a new layer, call it "slices" for example, and put simple, outlined rectangles there, and use the "object properties" dialog to name them like "corner-topleft" etc, if you select them, then hide the "slices" layer, and choose "export bitmap", inkscape automatically defaults to "export selection" with your chosen name, with a .png in the end. There is no automated way to "export all rectangles in "slices" layer as png's with the layer hidden" of course, but it's still pretty handy if you change the design, to just re-export them all without much typing. And with vector graphics its very easy to alter the design without having to re-do much from scratch, like you often need to do with pixel-based programs. This is quite similar to what Adobe web tools do with their "slices" concept. A bit hard to explain, but maybe it lights up a bulb in some inkscape users' heads..

Geographic fun everyone!

Tuomas Kuosmanen — Mon, 09 Oct 2006 15:25:25 +0000

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!