Audio/Video chat is the “next” big thing and a lot of people use Skype already to get that functionality on Linux without much hazzle (certainly a few use Ekiga aswell). Just recently the popular instant messenger Pidgin joined the ranks with their 2.6 release which introduced A/V chat for Jabber (XMPP) users. However, finally it…
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A glimpse at the fruits of the last weeks: Nautilus/GVFS: …
Played around with some unmaintainable Evolution plugin called evolution-statusicon I wrote once. Since upgrading to the latest openSUSE 11.1 release I felt it was missing badly on my desktop. It had to be compiled within the Evolution source due to non-public header usage (e-shell stuff) which led to some problems packaging it or even distributing…
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Ah, feels good to be back finally. Enjoyed being ripped off and scammed in NYC over NYE and work has caught me up again. In other news, you might have heard about NVIDIA’s VDPAU (Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix) which literally offloads Video decoding and processing to the graphics processor on Unix systems.…
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Hey, it appears as those superbrain folks on the libiphone mailing list are onto something regarding the new hashing algorithm used in Apple’s 2.0+ firmware.
I know it’s a bit late but still interesting to point out:
No, no. Apple is not releasing iTunes for Linux. What kept your (not jailbroken) bling bling from being accessed on Linux and limited to synchronization with one Mac or Windows computer could soon be history as a new interesting project has been started.
So today I joined the official iPhone Developer folks. First thing you do is to download the heavy iPhone SDK which comes in a “.dmg” file as many other bundles on Mac OS X. What do you do though when you download it in Linux and want to look into it?
Some interesting things happen in the GNOME world these days. First of all John Carr posted about his progress with the synchronization utility Conduit regarding Windows CE devices. It will be a good day for Linux when we can plug in a mobile, let Conduit pop up and synchronize all your contacts/calendars/notes/files with the computer…
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Martin Szulecki aka psp250, FunkyM, Hardlife, sukimashita.
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Maintainer and lead architect of the libimobiledevice FOSS project.