Category Archives: Software
Android Makes its Debut in T-Mobile G1 The device won’t have an impressive design and it won’t be as easy to use as an iPhone, but it will certainly be able to run a lot of interesting applications. Android’s first iteration, released last week, is certainly less of a watershed than Apple’s iPhone debut, but [...]
YouTube — Google Mobile Products on Android To me, this is a very compelling Android feature: log in and everything synchronizes. Now all they need is a decent music player and a 3.5mm headphone jack.… (Just say no to adapters and proprietary jacks!)
Hi, I’m a Mac… Beep, beep If Apple had gone the traditional route of portraying Microsoft as a gigantic monopolistic borg, great at crushing competition through market pressure but capable of developing only mediocre products, the ads would have been boring. More accurate, perhaps, but boring. They’d have been the 30 Seconds Hate, and that’s just [...]
Add Andrew Conkling [to our list of contributors] — he has done so much work for so long in Bugzilla, should have been listed here long ago. [banshee] Revision 4414. It’s not why I help out, but it is nice to be recognized. Thanks Gabriel! It’s really very satisfying to contribute to the Banshee project, even if it’s [...]
So I’ve cooked up a nice tooltip for the trayicon for Pygmy (in SVN r79), with the help of Gian Mario Tagliaretti. Basically, it’s a window that looks like a tooltip, smells and tastes like a tooltip, even behaves like a tooltip, but is not one. Here’s a peek at what they look like right [...]
Gaim and UI ...
So I’ve been using Gaim’s 2.0 CVS (development version). They have some nice changes since 1.5.0. The most notable upon signing in (especially someone like me who has an AIM, a Jabber, and two IRC accounts) is the absence of the account sign-on window. It is one of the most annoying features about 1.X (and [...]
So I read this article this morning on work on GNOME optimization and they mention the “GNOME file chooser”. Lo and behold, they actually mean the GTK+ filechooser, something available in any GTK+ application, not just in GNOME’s. Perhaps it’s a pedantic distinction, but I think it’s an important one. Linux users should have a [...]
So. Many updates with Pygmy lately. I rewrote the way it connects to MPD using a Singleton, so there’s only ever one, no matter if you change the port, open the browser, etc. Makes it all very stable. For example, (I haven’t written this capability yet) you’ll be able to update your music database and [...]
In celebration of OOo’s 2.0 release, here’s an interview with one of their most important people. From the article: “OOo is a massive project, and so it is fitting to have an in-depth interview with one of OpenOffice.org’s main project leads to look at where OOo has come from, how it got here, and where [...]
Comcast starts enforcing bandwidth cap ...