26 March 2008: Today is Document Freedom Day! (2008-03-26)
Today is Document Freedom Day: Roughly 200 teams from more than 60 countries
worldwide are organising local activities to raise awareness for Document
Freedom and Open Standards. [...] Document Freedom is about giving you
control of your information, ...
FSFE Newsletter (2008-03-17)
It has been an exceptional month. The European Commission has fined
Microsoft an additional 899 million Euro for continuing to restrict access
to interoperability information prior to October 2007 and the ISO Ballot
Resolution Meeting in Geneva failed ...
Petition calls for Open Standards in the European Parliament (2008-03-06)
At a time when the EU Commission investigates the anti-competitive behaviour
of a market-dominant player, the European Parliament (EP) still imposes that
same specific software choice on both the European Union's citizens and its
own MEPs. OpenForum ...
[MythTV Maemo Port] Initial port available!
We've released an initial port of mythtv for the n810/n800 on OS2008! Please
see http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=18270 for more
details
[Streamtuner (maemo port)] Shoutcast plugin fixed
A new version of Streamtuner is available.
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/streamtuner/ This version
(0.99.99-11) fix Shoutcast category list empty due to change in Shoutcast
directory page HTML Enjoy and stay tuned ;-)
[AngsTRON] Angstron BETA release 1
Angstron finally got its final shape. Now, its time to make it stable.
Please help testing. This is a 770 release. It will probably work with N8x0
devices, but I will make a special release for these lucky owners very soon.
I would be very pleased if ...
How would you change Maemo.org Downloads and Application Manager?
There have been recent heated discussions on the availability, quality, and
installation problems of Internet Tablet apps. Maemo.org Downloads lists
hundreds of available apps but let’s face it, a big chunk of Internet Tablet
users don’t even know what ...
OS2008 Custom Theme Maker
Urho Konttori just released Theme Maker 1.1.3, an OS2008 (Chinook) theme
maker. The app, that runs on a PC, Mac, Linux, takes in an 8000 (not a typo)
x 800 pixel .PNG file and automatically dissects them to hundreds of
components and then packages them ...
Canola2 Updates - Beta7, Themes, and YouTube Plug-in
The INdT guys have been busy with Canola2. Today they announced Beta7 and
the much anticipated YouTube plug-in. The first major Canola2 plug-in, the
YouTube plug-in allows you to search, bookmark and save videos from YouTube.
Developers can now take a ...
Colorado Pork and Hops Challenge
We have seen such horrors lately, and expended so much vitriol, and felt so
much anguish that we are now just worn out.
All we can muster for this obese beer-and-suicide enthusiast is pity.
We've seen his kind (as well as alcoholic pigs) before. He ...
Rachachuros Seasoning
We have been in the business of exposing and elucidating suicidefoodism for
a long time now.
We have presented hundreds of mascots, logos, and cartoons.
We have steeled ourselves to the contempt so often expressed for animals.
We have made our way ...
Sprayberry's Barbecue
Oh, dear lord.
Do you see what the good folks at Sprayberry's have done here? Can you—sane
reader—conceive of a more inappropriate illustration to accompany the "baby
back ribs" section of a menu? *Is* there a more inappropriate illustration?
If you ...
Arquitectura, gastronomía y arte
El lunes era un día extraño. Por una parte era festivo pues en Italia
celebran tambien la Pasqueta o Lunedì dell’Angelo, nuestro lunes de Pascua o
‘Día de la Mona’. Como era el último día no queríamos hacer nada que
comprometiera nuestra salida, ...
El Lago Maggiore
El domingo por la mañana era que día que en nuestros planes habíamos elegido
para realizar una excursión a ver alguno de los lagos. Éramos optimistas
pues las previsiones de bajas temperaturas y lluvia no se habían cumplido en
absoluto y aunque hacia ...
Museo de la Ciencia
El sábado por la mañana decidimos ir al Museo de la Ciencia “Leonardo da
Vinci”. Habíamos leído en algún sitio que era uno de los mejores del mundo y
realmente no se trata de una exageración. El museo se encuentra cerca de la
basílica de San Ambrosio, ...
We on the Reader team are delighted to have a guest post today from Google
usability expert T.V. Raman, who has announced on the Google Blog that
Reader now supports ARIA-powered screenreading. Our thanks go out to T.V.
and to Charles Chen, fellow ...
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