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March 23, 2010 at 15:07 · Filed under Apple, Code, Fun, GNOME, Linux, Media, Open Source, openSUSE
Last Sunday, after being in development since August 2007, Matt Colyer released version 1.0.0 of the libimobiledevice library (formerly known as libiphone).
libimobiledevice is a free open source software library that talks the protocols to support iPhone ® and iPod Touch ® devices natively on Linux.
Unlike other projects, it does not depend on using any existing proprietary libraries and does not require jailbreaking.
It was successfully tested with the iPhone and iPod Touch 1G, 2G, 3G and 3GS models running up to firmware 3.1.3.
So what does it mean for me as a desktop user?
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February 8, 2010 at 16:51 · Filed under Apple, Code, GNOME, Linux, Open Source, Research
Yes, really great stuff coming up…
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September 15, 2009 at 18:22 · Filed under Code, GNOME, Linux, Open Source
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 looks like there will be a decent way on Linux to have A/V chat with the very popular MSN protocol!
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August 25, 2009 at 10:07 · Filed under Life, Linux, Open Source
I recently have been asked this:
It’s actually quite simple.
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June 24, 2009 at 14:36 · Filed under Apple, Code, GNOME, Linux, Open Source, openSUSE
A glimpse at the fruits of the last weeks:
Nautilus/GVFS:
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